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Old 12-12-2012, 06:50 PM
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Question $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ How Much Money Are Coyotes Going For this Winter $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Any Idea on what the Average pelt is bringing in this year? I'm starting to think that some guys are getting decent money this winter for them.Alot of people are being tight lipped is my impression.

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Old 12-12-2012, 07:29 PM
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The best prices come from auction (NAFA). If they are real good quality I think we will see somewhere around $60 -70.00 average, give or take.
Apparently the auction sold off last years inventory so prices may be up a bit this year . Hard to tell until after the first action is held.
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Old 12-12-2012, 07:32 PM
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The best prices come from auction (NAFA). If they are real good quality I think we will see somewhere around $60 -70.00 average, give or take.
Apparently the auction sold off last years inventory so prices may be up a bit this year . Hard to tell until after the first action is held.
I heard rumours of $100 for the best pelts.Thats good for the trapping guys if thats the case....I need to start shooting differnt bullets,im blowing them apart with the ballistic tips.
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Old 12-12-2012, 07:44 PM
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$100.00 or better is quite possible for a good Alberta Coyote. The first NAFA auction will be in Feb (i think). That will tell us.

What cal/bullet are you shooting ?
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$100.00 or better is quite possible for a good Alberta Coyote. The first NAFA auction will be in Feb (i think). That will tell us.

What cal/bullet are you shooting ?
I see not until Febuary..

Running a 55 Grain Nosler Ballistic Tip out of a 240 Wby Mag...Bullet size is ok,its just the Ballistic tips leave such big holes in the hide.
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Old 12-12-2012, 07:55 PM
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I've had the same experience with B -tips. Those 55's must be sizzlin out of that .240 WBY. I get 3800+ out of them with my .243 Win.

I found my .20 Tactical /Berger 35 to be the most fur friendly .. same with204 Ruger.

Not nice sewing up a whole side lol.
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thats a tanned hide ? new to the fur pricing and such thats good for the tra[ppers if so
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Not Tanned. Just Fleshed, stretched and dried.
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Old 12-12-2012, 08:05 PM
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the new 17hornet is deadly on the dogs out to 300 yards! it drops them where they stand, just gotta carry a wind meter, pin hole going in, no exit hole yet theat ive found.
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Old 12-12-2012, 08:17 PM
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I've had the same experience with B -tips. Those 55's must be sizzlin out of that .240 WBY. I get 3800+ out of them with my .243 Win.

I found my .20 Tactical /Berger 35 to be the most fur friendly .. same with204 Ruger.

Not nice sewing up a whole side lol.
Yup 204 ruger,thats a great little cartridge.ive been thinking about getting one of them.I know cooper firearms is going to start chambering varmit cartridges in Repeater Rifles,M21-R.

Knock em dead man,cheers,WJ
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Old 12-12-2012, 08:22 PM
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The .17 Hornet will be joining my .20 very soon. I agree, it is a great piece for Coyotes. Most shots are well under 300 yds anyway ... more like 100 or less from a stand. A 12 ga. is also nice to have along.
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Old 12-12-2012, 08:27 PM
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i heard theres to many guys around that are getting into shooting and trapping them this year prices will be down cause of the market flooding
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Old 12-12-2012, 08:40 PM
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That could be but I recall hearing the same thing last year. I think more depends on the Euopean fur market than the quantity available in inventory. Surprisingly NAFA sold right out last year.

If inventories get exceptionally high we may see much better prices for high quality furs and dick for below.
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there are a lot of variables to sending them to auction... the fees and commisions you pay only seem like a small amount if you are getting average price or better, there is a flat commission %, tumbling fee and i believe there is a government royalty that you pay on every pelt. so if you are sending in substandard pelts (unprime, off colour, large holes or small) they will eat away your profits quickly.

a lot has to do with the colour or the pelts, the darker they are the less they will bring, even if your prep is perfect, i sold mine last year for 50 dollars a piece on average to a fur buyer. my prep could have been better (first year though) had 1 semi-heavy (worth about half the price of a heavy) and the colours were all dark. if i had perfect prep and pale colour ( which is what i am told is the prefered colour) i may have gotten average prices from auction or better. after commissions and fees i would have been looking around 60-65 dollars had i gotten average.


so maybe i took a little less than what an auction would have brought but i also had cash in hand at the end of the day.

i am hoping the price goes up this year, like everyone else, and by the looks of things they will. heres to hoping
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Can someone post a pic of a Pelt that would be acceptabe to be sold or auctioned?
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Old 12-13-2012, 02:48 PM
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there is the picture of the 6 i sold last year. buyer had a few minor critiques for my prep as far that the length of the front legs and how much to trim out of the belly/groin area, but said the fleshing was bang on. im not an expert but if you can make yours look like these or better, you're laughin.


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Old 12-14-2012, 05:23 AM
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Don't have any close up photos. We shipped 33 coyote, highest was $90.00
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Old 12-14-2012, 05:51 AM
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great pics dugh and phil!!

until the auction, no one knows. the Chinese economy has slowed down. and around here, everybody is out after coyotes. select prairie furs(coyote) may stay strong like last year. but anything less than perfect is going to be way down, way down. do to over supply. happens every time there's a bump in the market.

we'll see eh?
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Old 12-14-2012, 06:22 AM
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Nice pelts guys.
Has anyone shooting B-tips with a 22-250 slowed down their loads to maybe 3400 - 3500 to help the hide damage ?

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Old 12-14-2012, 10:16 AM
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coyote prices dropped late last season i would think 40-50 average
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Old 12-14-2012, 11:47 AM
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Nice pelts guys.
Has anyone shooting B-tips with a 22-250 slowed down their loads to maybe 3400 - 3500 to help the hide damage ?

TBark
im shooting 55 gr ballistic tips out of my 223. badgers and coyotes have shown a pinhole in with no exit. foxes are too frail to stop them though, and the exit hole was enormous. i have no idea what speed they are zipping at....charts say around 3100 fps, but i dont have a chrony. hide damage was a factor in my choice of 223 over 22-250. that and i plan on shooting till the barrel melts right off, and a 223 will last a little longer.
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Old 12-14-2012, 02:49 PM
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i have shot a lot of coyotes with a 22-250 40grn ballistic tip not much fur damage unless you hit them in the shoulders if you punch them behind the shoulder no problem
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Do you sew up the holes in the hides before you send them to auction or do you send them as is?
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Old 12-14-2012, 11:04 PM
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Did much better price wise on hides sent to FHA than NAFA , won't go back there again . Amax bullets @ 3600 fps out of my 22-250 leaves no exit holes so far .. at least not on the half dozen so far .
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ttt. Anybody else got any news on how the market is??
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Old 12-26-2012, 09:14 PM
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Sold a big one that I snared for $30 whole the other day. Hope to get a bunch more now that I've got my trapping license this year. But I'm not seeing near as many yotes this year as I did last year and the year before.

I shot 52gr. amax outta my 250 last year and they worked well. I'm trying 40gr. Vmax at 4200fps this year and I'm liking them more so far. All 14 of the year so far have been zero damage. Fox it went thru, but didn't leave a huge hole out. Quarter size.
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