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Post by TrapperRon on Feb 20, 2012 18:30:27 GMT -6
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Post by TrapperRon on Feb 21, 2012 18:53:08 GMT -6
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Post by thebeav2 on Feb 22, 2012 8:23:21 GMT -6
As far as I can see as to the catalogs all types and sections of coyote were offered.
There were a few buy backs but as a whole most everything sold.
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Post by Stef on Feb 22, 2012 10:24:55 GMT -6
Nothing great about our coyotes "Eastern"
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Post by musher on Feb 22, 2012 11:42:53 GMT -6
Overall things are looking good.
Marten, beaver and otter as well as fox are good news. Fisher and mink are barely headed in the right direction. However, lynx are a disappointment. Bears are same old. My wolves are the same as coyotes so not much hollering going on about them.
Wish I had lots of rats and that the season didn't end before the waters open.
Those auction results do get a guy primed for next season. Better prices are cause for optimism.
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Post by thorsmightyhammer on Feb 22, 2012 12:44:47 GMT -6
were there only "good" coyotes offered? if not- what are the clearances/prices on the other types beyond the top grades? What else is there? There isnt much else besides that other than sec III and they dont put alot there. There is a central red grade, coyote looked like a cross between a german shepard and a yellow lab. They brought 10 to 20 bucks. Besides the 3 sections you listed there is only two more. Flat damage, sec IV, and Central red and those three sections had about 3 to 3500 yotes total combined. |
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Post by jim on Feb 22, 2012 14:09:03 GMT -6
Steve; Go to nafa register as a guest and you can see all the catologs. I had two $78 ones and I know there was at least one $92 from lower Michigan. They even got some good prices for some red ones, I got some I was going to have tanned, I think I sill ship them to auction now. Jim
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Post by td on Feb 22, 2012 16:03:28 GMT -6
Nothing out of the ordinary? I avg'ed $49 with 10-15% red bellies/poor coyotes. Last year was about $22, so it was more than double this year. I didn't avg $49 in the boom years.
Sec III and IV shouldn't be put up. I don't get any in that grade. Sure, I catch some. Mange spots, red bellies/rubbed shoulders ....... but I don't put them up. If someone has too much time on their hands, or doesn't know any better, knock yourself out. They've never been worth anything.
Only top end was good? A II GD color at $44, a couple II w/MED color at $44 and some II DBR at $40 is a good example of that not being true. I also had one in the Red section ....... $38.
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Post by Stef on Feb 22, 2012 17:18:26 GMT -6
I cannot agree more
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Post by Stef on Feb 22, 2012 17:34:27 GMT -6
Eastern coyotes rubbed shoulders etc can get $7 and lower at auctions.
Believe me, now they all go where the mangy ones go.
I would prefer and be ahead money wise talking searching empty consigned bottles on the side of the road rather than skinning little or no value at all coyotes.
NOTE: Even if some of MY coyotes are fur less etc, that doesn't mean that I don't have to flesh them after skinning them.
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Post by jim on Feb 22, 2012 18:04:25 GMT -6
I do all my coyote trapping before Nov 15 the start of our rifle deer season. The 11 I sent to NAFA averaged $41 and change. You saw my prices from Groenewold. There is some drqw back from waiting for the snow with the guard hairs being pulled out as they get up out of their frozen bed as told to me by a buyer when I took him some fox years ago. Jim
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Post by seldom on Feb 22, 2012 18:25:21 GMT -6
Our canine season opens on 10/15 and last year (2010) a property owner was paying me bounty and wanted me to start ASAP 10/15 so I did. I caught 7 coyote rather quickly and 4 were pups and all were "hairy". I skinned them anyway because it was a good exercise using my new jib and hot skining. I finished those coyote's and sent them to the auction as normal. Since they were obviously not close to having any real fur, my lotting letter showed me exactly where those 7 hairies were. Remember BW's $2.00 coyotes he used to lament about? Well those 7 averaged exactly $3.00,  . Sure beat up my overall average of $27.00+ that sale(3/11) but nevertheless, they proved a point that not even my late winter coyotes were ever that bad/damaged! Jim is correct because back in tne early 70's I had a buyer tell me the very same thing about fox since that's all we had than. Frozen beds and running the brush plays hell on fur! |
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Post by td on Feb 22, 2012 20:33:04 GMT -6
Those $12 dollar "weak belly" minn coyotes would likely have brought 40 or 50, judging from the pics i've seen. They look like mine, only better. Maybe the pics make them look "fat". lol
The only thing I toss is junk, not "relatively" cheap. Trust me, I had poor in that average. Are there any red crotchers in minn? I had some that I cut the belly out since it didn't have any fur on it. Window like a coon. lol
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