Good for you, plus you know the reloading sequence now.

Did you get $50 bucks for the fur????

I have'nt done any fur trading for 18 years,,What's the market doing?,,Should I be shopping for a blue tick?

Here in N.C. always leave a paw on the coon carcass when you are fixen'to sell it. That way the buyer is assured of genuine coon. This started about 18 years ago when we had a rash of Marylanders/ W. Virginians selling cats in place of coons to unsuspecting city folks.

I haven't checked the market out either, I was wondering if the money was of rthe fur or the meat. If I could get $50 bucks for 2 coons I have tossed $500 bucks in the dump pile over the last several months!!

I don't know if there is a single person in the state of Wyoming that will eat a coon!!!

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Baked, stuffed coon is one of my wild game favorites, with all the trimmings,less giblets, of course. Some friends in the west don't know what they are missing.

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I don't know if there is a single person in the state of Wyoming that will eat a coon!!!

Demographics being what they are it is likely you don't have the same variety of citizens in Wyoming that are common in the Gen. Lee's country. Selling coons to such folks is common, possum and cooters too. Can't say I've heard of such hefty prices before, $10-15 being more common for a double. OTOH, mebbe there was a special occasion, like a wedding or some such? Me, I just too 'em to the lizards so they're used to fur, maybe helping them develope a taste for such creatures on the shore line.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

http://www.SomePeopleWill.EatAnything

DD,

I used to double dip...my Dad paid me to shoot cotton tails out of the groves and if I got a coon or possum that was OK too. I used to take them to an old boy who peddled them to his relatives for a buck a piece and I got 50 cents each which bought a box of Sears .22s so I was way ahead of the game in 1960. I guess I didn't know any better 'cause I got the same for rabbit, coon or possum....but I had to gut em to make the sale. No body wanted tree rats or armadillo.

I was trading some fur with a polish trader one time,,he was skinning some coon he had bought on the carcass,,the theme of cooking them for dinner came up,, ,,He stuck his skinning knife into the carcass he had still hanging on the chain,,stuck it into the belly,, dug the knife in there a bit and pulled the knife out with a nasty looking worm wiggiling around on the point of the blade,,,coons could be worse eating than crat,,Do as you care,,and,Bon appetit,,Clay

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W. Virginians selling cats in place of coons to unsuspecting city folks.

Siamese 'coon.

PT, I think that was the exact name referenced in the police report at the time. But honestly, we have a few dumb clucks here too. I leave the paw on the "siamese" coons I sell to them as "proof". N.S. Sherlock

DigitalDan....What the Hell is a COOTER??? It sounds like something you might pick up is a sporting house!!

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Around here,a turtle.
I know of a guy that lives in one of our 'armpit' hollows. Keeps to his self, not a bit friendly.I stumbled onto his shack while deer hunting with some of the boys.We didn't go in,of course.Just stood back aways and hollered to see if anyone was about.He was there somewhere, we just didn't know where.
Outside around his cooking area, it was ankle deep in Box turtle shells.

A cooter is what keeps so many of us men in a form of semi-willing slavery called marriage.

lawndart

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DigitalDan....What the Hell is a COOTER??? It sounds like something you might pick up is a sporting house!!

oh it is something you'll definitely get in a "sporting house"

linkeroni


HTRN

Y'all fellas up nawth got your heads in the gutter...

http://www.cooterfestival.com/about.asp

...and we got enough names for that other thingy down here, don't need to be borrowin' from our neighbors...




Dan

Pres., TYHC

http://www.TurnUpThe.Volume