Beaver Trappers Unite

drake · #1 03-16-2015, 02:26 PM

What are you selling your carcasses for this year?...with the low fur auction prices i encrouage all of you to hedge your losses with a $20-$25 min price per carcass this year!!The days of $5-$15 dollar beavers are gone! No free lunches here! Beaver Trappers Unite!!!

6mm rem · #2 03-16-2015, 02:35 PM

X2 That only seems fair too me.

Torkdiesel · #3 03-16-2015, 02:36 PM

I saw medicmoose sold 3 with a pail of fat for $100. That's dam near $30 a beaver by my calculations

HunterDave · #4 03-16-2015, 02:38 PM

Supply and demand rules in a lot of areas. Carcasses seems to cost more closer to the city and they are cheaper out in the sticks where there's a lot of carcasses available for sale (or free). I've had no problem selling my carcasses for $20, but they are mainly big 2XXL and 3XXXL. I always set my prices lower for a quick sale rather than charging more and holding onto something longer. Set your prices and find someone that will buy them every spring and fall and you are set.

nube · #5 03-16-2015, 02:41 PM

I'm having a hard time letting them go lol I need them for bait for next trapping season. A guy like me needs 10-15 a year just to keep the line going. That being said for $25 a piece I may have to sell a few. Got a little one last night and have another big jumbo swimming around that I was going to shoot but didn't want to take the chance of getting him in deep water and not getting him out. Will set some traps for him in a couple weeks when I chase rats I think

bill9044 · #6 03-16-2015, 11:04 PM

I agree I have had many guys ask me already. I am not a big beaver trapper (5 last year) but it gets around that a guy traps beavers and every bear hunter wants a couple. I only set one day under the ice and snabbed a small one. Due to me being a cluts I haven't been out trapping this past 2 weeks so I'll be short. But there is only one way to fix that. Set hard.

bullgetter · #7 03-17-2015, 07:56 AM

All my beaver are kept for my bear baits and winter trapping bait. If I did sell any I would have to get at least $30. Luckly I have never had to buy any before.

waterninja · #8 03-17-2015, 09:27 AM

Price fixing beaver carcasses. I love it! Oil companies have been getting away with it for years, so why not? I can imagine the court case now. Maybe the price should go up 5 bucks on long weekends during bear season.

drake · #9 03-17-2015, 09:40 AM

[QUOTE=waterninja;2768192]Price fixing beaver carcasses. I love it! Oil companies have been getting away with it for years, so why not? I can imagine the court case now. Maybe the price should go up 5 bucks on long weekends during bear season.[/QUOTE]

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medicmoose · #10 03-17-2015, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Torkdiesel

I saw medicmoose sold 3 with a pail of fat for $100. That's dam near $30 a beaver by my calculations

I based that on the fact the 5 gal fat weighed 30 lbs so it's the same a another beaver. Trying to get 25 a beaver.

Matt

Sled Ed · #11 03-20-2015, 07:45 AM

I am paying $15 a beaver

drake · #12 03-20-2015, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Sled Ed

I am paying $15 a beaver

I'm paying 0 and selling them for $30

nube · #13 03-20-2015, 08:32 AM

For $15 I will keep them for bait. $25 and I would sell some.

Marty S · #14 03-20-2015, 08:42 AM

Oh the collusion... The collusion... I just can't take it anymore

diamonddave · #15 03-20-2015, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by drake

I'm paying 0 and selling them for $30

Lol Fuel's free, traps are free, shells are free, time is free......

Sounds like you have a pretty good gig goin on!!

drake · #16 03-20-2015, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by diamonddave

Lol Fuel's free, traps are free, shells are free, time is free......

Sounds like you have a pretty good gig goin on!!

Trapline is on the way to work (fuel cost $0), trap cost me $17 eleven years ago, my time is free....the look on the bear hunters face when he pays my $90 for three beavers is priceless. I'll save three for you DD.

nube · #17 03-20-2015, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by drake

Trapline is on the way to work (fuel cost $0), trap cost me $17 eleven years ago, my time is free....the look on the bear hunters face when he pays my $90 for three beavers is priceless. I'll save three for you DD.

I think he wants 5 Drake

diamonddave · #18 03-20-2015, 02:56 PM

Lol Nope I'm good boys, I don't pay a dime either.......

gunslinger · #19 03-21-2015, 08:49 AM

Any of you hard working fellas have any of the beavers left over come april 30 i will buy them off ya, i will pay 10$ max, i know alot of guys dont like to leave them in the freezers all year and every year it happens come the few days before we head into the 6 weeks of bear hunting, i bought a ton of them already but i will buy them off ya if ya want.

Torkdiesel · #20 03-21-2015, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by gunslinger

Any of you hard working fellas have any of the beavers left over come april 30 i will buy them off ya, i will pay 10$ max, i know alot of guys dont like to leave them in the freezers all year and every year it happens come the few days before we head into the 6 weeks of bear hunting, i bought a ton of them already but i will buy them off ya if ya want.

Well there Ya go boys, if the 25 other people looking for as many beaver as you have that are willing to pay $25-30 a piece fall through Gunslinger will throw you a bone at $10. What a nice guy

lol

pikeslayer22 · #21 03-21-2015, 09:35 AM

X2...hail them up to his bear camp where some Yankee will pay him in american currency to kill a bear or 2...which will add 15 to 20% more in his jeans for the same hunt he sold last year...sounds like a good business man!

Marty S · #22 03-21-2015, 11:53 AM

Us poor little beaver trappers need some USA hunter gratuity too... We are most deserving aren't we?

HunterDave · #23 03-21-2015, 02:34 PM

How much should I sell a porcupine for......lol.

nube · #24 03-21-2015, 03:32 PM

They are actually worth a bit for the hair. I used to get $10 a few years ago from Halfords back when they took whole coyotes

HunterDave · #25 03-21-2015, 03:59 PM

Yeah, there's a fella in Bonnyville buying whole porky carcasses for the guard hair. I'm going to pluck the hair and quills myself. Who wants to buy the carcass?

medicmoose · #26 03-22-2015, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by HunterDave

Yeah, there's a fella in Bonnyville buying whole porky carcasses for the guard hair. I'm going to pluck the hair and quills myself. Who wants to buy the carcass?

Meh the fella will give you 15 bucks per porky. I skinned them sold the quills and hair and then the carcass for another 15. 30 in total is pretty decent for just skinning the animal. Halfords doesn't take the quills or gaurd hair anymore.

nube · #27 03-22-2015, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by medicmoose

Meh the fella will give you 15 bucks per porky. I skinned them sold the quills and hair and then the carcass for another 15. 30 in total is pretty decent for just skinning the animal. Halfords doesn't take the quills or gaurd hair anymore.

How do you skin a porky lol I bet that was a *****ly experienjce........

Do you just skin them and salt them down after?

medicmoose · #28 03-22-2015, 05:13 PM

I skinned them the same way you would do a beaver. Tail was the most difficult part. No quills on the belly. Then I just froze the hide.

HunterDave · #29 03-22-2015, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by medicmoose

Meh the fella will give you 15 bucks per porky. I skinned them sold the quills and hair and then the carcass for another 15. 30 in total is pretty decent for just skinning the animal. Halfords doesn't take the quills or gaurd hair anymore.

I think that I have a buyer for the guard hair and quills if I ever get around to plucking them. If you can find someone who normally buys the guard hair for $55/ounce from Halford's, $25 or $30/ounce is a bargain.

7mmstwguy · #30 03-27-2015, 11:34 PM

Going to be freezing mine from this year, next spring will take orders. Hoping for 200 or more