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Post by mostinterestingmanintheworld on Feb 27, 2006 7:09:32 GMT -6
These were the 700+ cats Saturday 800+ Sunday
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Post by bobCATching on Feb 27, 2006 8:10:49 GMT -6
I knew you'd come through with some good pictures Joel. Nice!
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Post by BrandonH on Feb 27, 2006 8:29:12 GMT -6
Fantastic pics and cats, Joel. BH
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Post by Zagman on Feb 27, 2006 8:48:29 GMT -6
Creepy....
4 of those cats are worth more than my 100-plus canines on this end.....
Wild.....
Beautiful fur, man. Just beautiful.
When you catch one, does it ride on the front seat?
Hell, I'd probably strap it into a baby seat just so nothing happened to it should I wreck the truck......
MZ
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Post by dj88ryr on Feb 27, 2006 9:54:08 GMT -6
Hell, I'd probably strap it into a baby seat just so nothing happened to it should I wreck the truck...... MZ LMFAO!! ;D ;D
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Post by briankroberts on Feb 27, 2006 12:29:39 GMT -6
Wow!!....B.....
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Post by JWarren on Feb 27, 2006 12:45:53 GMT -6
When you catch one, does it ride on the front seat? Hell, I'd probably strap it into a baby seat just so nothing happened to it should I wreck the truck...... MZ I just started using a choke pole on them this year, the first one I poled I stuck behind the seat because I had some long walks at other stops, to make a long story short the thing regained conciousness behind my seat! I had to pull off the highway and pole it again in the cab. I shut myself in the cab while doing it preferring cat scratch fever to the cat flying out the door ;D. But to answer the question, I wouldn't leave one laying in the back of the truck if I'm going to be out of sight of it.
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Post by jeffc on Feb 27, 2006 12:57:19 GMT -6
Nice pics and nice cats. They always ride up front with me
Jeff
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Post by mostinterestingmanintheworld on Feb 27, 2006 13:17:32 GMT -6
when they ride up front the fleas ride up front with em.
Joel
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Post by JWarren on Feb 27, 2006 13:31:15 GMT -6
I always hose em down with RAID as soon as I get back to the truck. The country fresh scent is nice and I like to think it works subliminally on the fur grader too
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Post by bobwendt on Feb 27, 2006 13:43:05 GMT -6
only up front if like zero out and I don`t want them hard as a rock by the time I get ready to skin. lesson learned, always keep rear end up , or express bladder BEFORE putting up front. I could sell 1" squares of my floor rugs as urine attractors. truck smells like an old lady with 100 housecats living in her house. the kind you read about in the paper periodically where they come take 12 dead ones, 42 sick ones and 73 starving ones out of her house and then condemn the place.
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Post by mostinterestingmanintheworld on Feb 27, 2006 16:31:26 GMT -6
In the 80's there was an old lady that was an anti activist. I saw her in a restaurant one day and went over an introduced myself.
We became fairly good friends and she kind of backed off the anti trapping stuff.
One day she asked me to come over and give her an estimate of value on her house.
I went in and the place was literally in a fog. I couldn't control myself and got the dry heaves.
When I left it was 20 degrees outside and I rode home with the window down.
My slacks and sweater reeked. I couldn't get the smell out of my nose.
Kind of like when you are in a smoky bar and you stink of smoke when you leave except it was cat piss.
Joel
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Post by bobwendt on Feb 27, 2006 16:56:05 GMT -6
having NEVER been in a smokey bar, myself, I haven`t a clue what you are talking about! joel, I want to thank you for the tip on skinning into the white and tacking rears togather. I know it made me some money this year. about the time a guy thinks he knows it all he learns something like that and it really changes his trapping i.q. makes me wonder what else I don`t know that I should know.
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Post by ColdSteel on Feb 27, 2006 16:56:11 GMT -6
Wow now I know why my cats range from 25 to 75 bucks at NAFA.Joel I know they grade a cat over 36 inches long a xl cat how wide are your cats at the base?I have some adjustable yote boards and was just looking yours look alot wider than mine
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Post by gunny on Feb 27, 2006 17:28:33 GMT -6
The one in the middle picture is an absolutely phenomonal cat.
IMHO, it is way indervalued at $800, should be worth $2500, cats like that don't come down the pike everyday.
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Post by coyote on Feb 27, 2006 17:46:35 GMT -6
WOW! thanks, Joel!
so...those cats haven't been washed? (I think I recall Bob saying never to wash cats)
makes ours look like a different species.
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Post by renny1 on Feb 27, 2006 18:33:48 GMT -6
Joel, are those your cats? You clean them in dry borax? 100% borax or a mixture? You dry rub by hand? drum? No static? I too am impressed with the middle cat. thanks
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Post by mostinterestingmanintheworld on Feb 27, 2006 19:29:12 GMT -6
Guys those aren't my cats.
They are the best of the best probably on the planet.
These kind come around about every 1000 cats best I can figure.
There were plenty of $150 ones around so don't think they all look like that.
I just knew which ones were the best cats.
They have all been boraxed and stretched "Nevada Style".
Read Bill Ilcik's book and look for Steve Wood's upcoming video.
The salesman in me comes out for my buddies.
Those cats all stretched 48-50 inches and were approx. 10-12" wide at the hips.
I know where every one was caught lol!! Some of the first three were in my old traplines.
I don't recall catching many quite that good however although there was one that beats them all. He's on my wall!!
There is a coat made out of last years cats that is retailing at $150,000 in Hong Kong.
$851 doesn't sound like much when you put it in perspective.
Joel
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Post by cowman on Feb 27, 2006 19:54:52 GMT -6
Thanks for the pic's joel, awesome!
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Post by thorsmightyhammer on Feb 27, 2006 23:26:17 GMT -6
Thanks for the pictures Joel and the shared information.
Those are truly magnificent specimens.
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