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Gobble
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Posted: Thu Dec 27th, 2007 02:13 am |
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Does anyone know where you can take coyote pelts and how much you can get for them?
I've always heard that you can get cash for them but have never heard where to take them?
Thanks,
Gobble
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Spurdaddy
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Posted: Thu Dec 27th, 2007 05:42 pm |
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Gobble.......Where abouts are you located? You can normally contact the local or state trapping assocation . They will be glad to tell you what you need to do. A friend of mine here in Washington use to send his to a fur auction in Canada..........Spurdaddy
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Gobble
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Posted: Sun Dec 30th, 2007 07:14 pm |
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Spurdaddy-
I live in Buckley. I don't have any pelts right now but I have often wondered where you would take them if you do. I shot a couple coyotes during deer season and if I knew where to take them I would have caped them out and got some money for them. How much do you usually get for the pelts?
Thanks for the reply
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sneakyjake
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Posted: Mon Dec 31st, 2007 12:24 am |
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| I think Krusty is the local guru on the subject.
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Spurdaddy
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Posted: Mon Dec 31st, 2007 01:56 am |
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The most I believe my friend got was about forty bucks for good ones......The prices vary I'm sure like most fur bearers.....size, condition, time of year, etc...........Spurdaddy
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Gobble
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Posted: Tue Jan 1st, 2008 02:24 am |
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| I haven't seen Krusty post for awhile, Is he still around?
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Krusty
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Posted: Tue Jan 1st, 2008 06:48 pm |
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Gobble,
Yeah, I'm still around.
Whether or not a coyote has any value depends on when and where it was killed.
If you were hunting on the westside, they have little to no value on the fur market (especially in a warm deer season, like this year).
The Pacific Northwest Coastal Coyote (that's actually the sub-species name) is a short coat coyote with little underfur (down).
The fur buyer I asked about them, said he didn't have room in his dumpster for western Wa. coyotes. 
The reality is, they are too different from the bulk of the fur harvested, to be used along side it in a manufacturing setting.
I think the last one I saw sold, went for $2.
Even a prime winter eastern Wa. coyote only fetches around $20, if it's well put up.
The average is around $14, so that means some are only selling for $8.
There are several ways to market furbearers, even those that are not "top quality" ones.
As stated the WSTA has a fur sale each spring, in Centralia, (and sometimes one on the east side).
Fur Haversters Auction (FHA), and North American Fur Auctions (NAFA), both huge clearing houses will put your fur up for sale, but it's not guaranteed you'll make a sale (un-sold fur is shipped back, at your expense).
The taxidermy trade has a need for some furbearers, so that might be an option, a coyote could be used to offset the costs of your deer mount?
(*Or in my case, an otter, and a few beavers offset the cost of my coyote mount.)
There's also person to person sales. The mountain man/muzzle loader crowd is a good outlet, either in tanned pelts, or garments.
A coyote can be made into a hat, not unlike a 'coonskin cap, and then sold, or into mittens or slippers.
Or sold as a raw hide, or a finished pelt, on E-bay, and other online auction/sales sites.
Depending on who you are selling to, coyotes might be skinned different ways.
For the fur trade, a coyote is "case skinned", that's done by making a cut from each heel to the "vent", and a slit up the tail (so it can be stripped), and pulling the hide off like a sweater.
For the taxidermy trade, most buyers will want the animal whole, and want to get it as soon as possible after it has been killed.
If they do want it skinned, it's "dorsal skinned"... cutting down the spine from between the shoulders to the top of the tail, and leaving the head and feet in the hide.
Krusty 
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Gobble
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Posted: Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 10:16 am |
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Thanks Krusty,
Hardly makes it worthwhile then, I'll still shoot them though! 
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Coyotedemo
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Posted: Sun Feb 1st, 2009 09:25 pm |
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 So are coyote pelts worth more when you trap them rather than shoot them?Last edited on Sun Feb 1st, 2009 09:26 pm by Coyotedemo
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furkiller
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Posted: Fri Jan 29th, 2010 04:02 am |
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hey krusty i was just wondering where i could maybe sell my coyote pelts? and if the business is still down around 10$
thanks, furkiller
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stiknstringbow
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Posted: Mon Feb 1st, 2010 10:32 pm |
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| I am not Krusty, and I know very little about it, but the Washington State Trappers Association is having a fur sale on Feb. 20th at Fort Borst State Park, exit 82 in Centralia.
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Krusty
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Posted: Mon Feb 8th, 2010 10:22 pm |
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Furkiller,
As far as I know very little has changed since my last post in this thread.
Your location would be helpful, if I were to offer any advise on buyers outside of the fur sale, and on the subject of price, though. If you weren't going to it, or didn't want to wait.
Krusty
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