ytd
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Post by ytd on Dec 3, 2009 22:49:48 GMT -5
I've read, and/or heard several times, that it doesn't matter if a coon's tail is missing when it comes time to sell them....IF this was true, why would anyone bother with the tails? Why not just cut them off and save the extra time it takes to handle a coon's hide?
Maybe it's just me??? Anybody else heard or read that about missing coon tails?
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Post by hawkeye on Dec 8, 2009 23:20:59 GMT -5
The year before last about half of the coon I caught were missing 1/4 to half their tails, one didn't have any tail at all. The landowner said he thought the local hound hunting club captured them and cut off their tails for tallies for their contests. I don't know if that's true.
Anyway I didn't got docked, but it was mentioned. I think the buyers would frown if your whole lot was missing their tails.
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ytd
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Post by ytd on Dec 11, 2009 12:58:21 GMT -5
Sure hope it isn't true about the hunting club. I can't imagine why they'd want to do that???
Anyway I'm sure you're right about buyers frowning on all of a collection of coons missing tails Hawk
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Post by huckleberry on Dec 11, 2009 21:30:13 GMT -5
I wouldn't have the slightest clue why a coon club would want to cut a coons tail off. Every club and comp hunt I have ever been envolved with won't even allow you to touch a coon during a comp hunt. Some may, but I hope they get caught if they do.
Some buyers have special markets and would want the tails on the coon. Some will use the lack of a tail as a reason to dock you, even if they don't need the tails. The most common fur buyer probably don't give a hoot in he-ll about the tails on coon.
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Post by Sunshine on Feb 26, 2010 14:48:29 GMT -5
someone uses those tails. ive seen a bunch f fak coon hats(cabellas and othr places) but they have real coon tail on them. its probaby a way for the guys who buy them to make a little money back on them.
i dont think youd get docked(asked jerry onc cause last year i caught a big stub tailed one). it stretched 36 inches but didnt have a tail. he told me it wouldnt matter.
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Post by wheelers on Feb 27, 2010 7:46:15 GMT -5
I haven't been docked because of a missing tail.
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Post by hawkeye on Mar 10, 2010 1:00:54 GMT -5
Neither have I, but last Sunday I was at the Prinevill fur sale. I saw a lot of poorly handled fur, and the buyers weren't very interested in some of the lots that had bad fur in them. I can't swear to it, but i'll bet some lots didn't sell because the furs didn't look as good as the others.
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 13, 2010 0:32:26 GMT -5
people dont understand that you can have a real good hide but kill its value with a crappy put up.
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Post by trapper7 on Mar 17, 2010 14:28:26 GMT -5
You're right about poorly put up fur. I had a guy drop fur off at my place to be picked up by NAFA. He only traps mink and rats, but had accidently gotten a nice, large, prime boar coon. He didn't have the equipment to finish a coon hide. So, he fleshed it as best he could with a tablespoon, then put it on a board he made out of plywood. The board he made was too wide. I gave him one of my boards for a pattern.
After it dried he included it with his mink & rats. It was still covered with dried, crusty fat pockets, particularly the neck area on the back which requires a sharp knife to remove as you know.
I told him it was a real nice coon, but I was concerned he would be docked because of the way it was finished.
The next year when he brought in his catch of rats & mink I asked him what he got for the coon. He said he had gotten $6.00 for it. Had it been put up right, it was a $20-$25 coon.
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 19, 2010 22:56:41 GMT -5
yep. you can make a good hide crap with a bad put up job.
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