Fallon Sale Results

[mostinterestingmanintheworld]

I've been asked by some how the sale numbers fared.

Badger 62 at $16 average

Beaver 110 at $19.08 average

Bobcats 3539 offered 3281 sold $217.16 average

Castor 36 at $8.42 lb

Coyotes 977 offered 964 sold at 25.48 average

Grey fox 903 at $39.91

Kit fox 263 at $9.64

Marten 2 at 32.12

Mink 2 at 13.05

Mtn. Lion 16 at $148.73

Muskrat 506 at $3.35

Raccoon 22 at $5.39

Red Fox 28 at $18.74

Ringtail 6 at $15.71

Skunk 14 at $6.66

Skull 1 at $10.24

I know we are starting to make a statement in the coon market I hope you guys from the midwest don't take it personal.

Joel

[lumberjack]

You would think if theres 22 coon there would be 22,000 raccoon. Whered the rest go?
The mink take is impressive.

[GUTPYLZ]

Dang! I should have brought my Ringtails!
Look at those numbers on the Reds. Bob will catch more than that on his first run. ;D OK, maybe 2, I was pushing it a little.

[bobwendt]

that`s what I mean, it looks like the fur rescource is about ignored in nevada except for cats. $25 for skinny coyotes isn`t too bad either. are there areas the gov`t isn`t busting them that a guy could do 25 a day? serious question. this mud and mange has about got me weaned off anything but desert trapping from here on out.

[mostinterestingmanintheworld]

Not on a 24 hour check. Should we beat that one to death for a while. lol!!

There are pockets with lots of coyotes but vast areas of just a few here and there.

We don't have them like Arizona, Texas, and Kansas.

Most I ever caught in a day was 20, I've done 17-18 several times. But lots of 3-5 days for every big day.

A 100 to 200 on a 48-72 hour check is about as good as I've seen the good trappers do in a month.

They get the shite called out of them from the armies from Utah, Oregon, and California but they don't kill many of the total.

Joel

[FWS]

if theres 22 coon there would be 22,000 raccoon. Whered the rest go?

Not neccesarily, I'd bet there's quite a few coons that hitch a ride accidentally and end up hopping off in NV looking somewhat dissapointed. We know that's how possums have spread in CA and into OR.

it looks like the fur rescource is about ignored in nevada except for cats

No, thats about how it is there.

[mostinterestingmanintheworld]

No water.

Joel

[bobwendt]

my rancher at gillette killed a big male tailess possum in his barn once. never before or since has anyone ever seen or heard of one in that country. we figure he fell off a semi or something, the possum, not the rancher. he`s the one burned his eyebrows off dumping gasoline oion an eagle nest on a cliff and then hanging over and dropping amatch on it, but that`s another story. my kids did take a pint sized one as a pet to wyoming one year and let it run free in the hired hand house we lived in. the lady that owned the ranch came over one day and it shot across the floor in overdrive and under the bed. nodody said anything. we figure she had to have seen it and never having seen a possum before in her life must have figured it was an albino rat or something. next day we found d con boxes she had put everywhere in the houi se. we figured she was so embarassed the house had "rats" she figured we never saw it and danged if she was going to mention it. anyway, the kids brought that potto back to indiana at the end odf the summer. end of story, uncle bob.

[thunderbolt]

I guess I don't feel so bad. I averaged $233 on my cats and $30 on the yotes.

[coloradocat]

Sheesh Derek, James was in a good mood when he came home huh? I have a buddy shipping him some on Monday.

[FWS]

No water.

Not much anyways.

Bob, I could probably show you visuals on habitat that'd give you a clear view of how it is. Once a guy learns how to use it the geospatial data from the USGS, USFS, BLM, USF&WS, NRCS, NWS, etc, etc. is very damn useful in scouting areas.

Joel, if you ever get hold of a hand held GPS unit you can mark your cat and gray fox catch locations and I can lay the points over aerial photos with my Arc-View GIS program. Very interesting to see the patterns ;D

[thunderbolt]

I was a little dissapointed on my coyotes. Last year I average $34. The same area, caught the same time, etc. I told him what I avg. last year and he said," yea I over paid on coyotes by $4 last year ."

[mostinterestingmanintheworld]

Joel, if you ever get hold of a hand held GPS unit you can mark your cat and gray fox catch locations and I can lay the points over aerial photos with my Arc-View GIS program. Very interesting to see the patterns

I don't catch enough to make much of a map.

There are a few guys that do though.

Joel