Coyote skin and case How to

Ahhhh yes, I remember it well. Pretty much how I used to do it back when I was as young as you and they were worth something. Now they get dumped in the woods. I trapped and skinned many a coyote but my fur buyer would buy them from me “in the grease”. He would flesh and stretch them himself and then take a U-Haul truck full to Hudson Bay Co in Canada. Went with him once. Huge warehouses full of fur. Awesome. Then came the “movement” and the paint throwing instances. Then trapping fur bearers died.
 
3 strikes 1. COVID shutdown and (2) Failing globalist EU economy choked off fur spending.(3) Russia and China doesn't care what the fashion world thinks and they're both broke.
 
I still skin the pretty ones to be tanned. A lot of Russian and Chinese bought fur stayed in their countries for consumption by their people. Fur in Russia and China is still considered for winter wear and not just fashion.

I also got into the back rooms at the HBC in Thunder Bay while I was at the NWOTA Winter Rendezvous. I went with a couple trappers that were selling some of their furs, great experience.

I used to put on a fur prep seminar.at Cabela's in Olympia WA years ago.

Back when beaver were going for a Buck an Inch I made spending money putting up beaver for the local trappers $7/beaver and they would nearly double what they would get in the round. I don't think I could do it today, enough arthritis in my hands that two coyotes.do.me in.
 
LONEHOWL said:
If you are skinning coyotes on the regular, skinning horizontally with a com a long or small electric winch of some kind will change your world.
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Roofing shingle blade and a extra long screwdriver helps drastically as well.

Nice tutorial for the occasional skin job but horizontal with the above tools is the way to go for volume skinning!
 
Haha, think the average for an Idaho coyote this year was $14. That’s put up too. Definitely not worth a Southern boys time with Southern fur. Back in the late 70’s early 80’s my buddy and I were making $1100-1200 a month (Dec-Feb) Coons brought about $25, Fox $50-75, and bobcats $80+. And all those were green. At 11-12yrs old we thought we were millionaires trapping before school and skinning after school.
Imagine my surprise when I started back trapping 35+ years later and coons were bringing $1.50 to $2.50 green, lol. Think I got a whopping $5 for my coyotes. Luckily rich landowners pay to have critters removed (trapped or shot) cause it ain’t worth the time to skin them. Buzzards gotta eat too.
 
Spurchaser said:
Haha, think the average for an Idaho coyote this year was $14. That’s put up too. Definitely not worth a Southern boys time with Southern fur. Back in the late 70’s early 80’s my buddy and I were making $1100-1200 a month (Dec-Feb) Coons brought about $25, Fox $50-75, and bobcats $80+. And all those were green. At 11-12yrs old we thought we were millionaires trapping before school and skinning after school.
Imagine my surprise when I started back trapping 35+ years later and coons were bringing $1.50 to $2.50 green, lol. Think I got a whopping $5 for my coyotes. Luckily rich landowners pay to have critters removed (trapped or shot) cause it ain’t worth the time to skin them. Buzzards gotta eat too.
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Would be cool if they became worth something more again. I do it for fun as a hobby. I made a coyote and fox rug this past winter too. Not allowed to hunt all the bobcats I’m seeing in Ohio. No season yet.
 
AWS said:
I still skin the pretty ones to be tanned. A lot of Russian and Chinese bought fur stayed in their countries for consumption by their people. Fur in Russia and China is still considered for winter wear and not just fashion.

I also got into the back rooms at the HBC in Thunder Bay while I was at the NWOTA Winter Rendezvous. I went with a couple trappers that were selling some of their furs, great experience.

I used to put on a fur prep seminar.at Cabela's in Olympia WA years ago.

Back when beaver were going for a Buck an Inch I made spending money putting up beaver for the local trappers $7/beaver and they would nearly double what they would get in the round. I don't think I could do it today, enough arthritis Botox Astoria NY in my hands that two coyotes.do.me in.
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Why you put on a fur prep seminar.at Cabela's?
 
Cabelas was putting in a hunting open house and invited the Washington Predator Hunters to set up a booth, Bearmanric did a seminar on calling and I did one on fur prep, there were a number of groups invited. That was around fifteen years ago. Cabelas was very supportive of hunting in WA.
 
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