NAFA don't pay much for eastern coyotes....

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Got my NAFA check in the mail today.... after all duties paid..... $8.24 Canadian sent to me................ Eight Dollars and twenty four cents, for dragging a coyote a half km through a farmers field, putting the stinky thing in my vehicle, taking it home, skinning the coyote out then fleshing it clean, salt, stretch and hang to dry, clean up the mess and stink in the garage, then dropping the hide off to auction...... $8.24 cents Canadian.....Just something to think about for anyone shooting coyotes for money.....




Now, $8.24 isn't much but at least I can write this off my bucket list.... lol
I still plan on taking any coyotes that are in good shape home, I will just continue to home tan them instead.
Happy hunting
 
I was told by a friend of mine that's a trapper that we have the ugliest coyotes in eastern Ontario. It could be worse, he sent hides off a few years back and got a bill.
 
That's why it sucks to say but unless the hide is super nice, some of our dogs lie where they fall. Any amount of poor pelt condition they just don't pay enough to be worth the effort. We bring home the nice ones do a wall hanger or skull mount.
 
swinginberrys said:
I was told by a friend of mine that's a trapper that we have the ugliest coyotes in eastern Ontario. It could be worse, he sent hides off a few years back and got a bill.
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I got a friend on this forum he got a check for what I think was 2 cents..... so ya, I am pretty lucky I guess.... lol...
Home tan (wall hangers/rugs) and skull mounts from now on... :)
 
With sanctions against Russia and the downturn in the Chinese economy, fur prices have stalled as well. A friend drives the pick up truck for one of the fur houses and he told me markets are very weak at this time.

Interesting article in latest Fur Fish Game magazine stating that coyotes preferred over wolves for trim industry as don't have to deal with CITES permits for coyotes.
 
I'd prep every pelt if they averaged $20bucks or so. Just to say I did something with each dead dog and add to my hunting fund. They are always a trophy to me but just can justify the work for the prices they been paying the last few yrs. Too bad no bounty in Lambton County.
 
cdn1canhunt said:
That's why it sucks to say but unless the hide is super nice, some of our dogs lie where they fall. Any amount of poor pelt condition they just don't pay enough to be worth the effort. We bring home the nice ones do a wall hanger or skull mount.
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I would not admit to that on a open forum not preserving the pelt of a furbearing animal is illegal. I have a tote full of nice prime pelt that have been tanned im holding onto them for a rainy day
 
Prices on lower quality goods are always lower in bad years. If you salted it, it may have been graded as damaged.

When prices were better a couple years ago I averaged mid 70's on eastern coyotes. The year before that I got a bill for the drumming fee on one that had no guard hair.
 
Your handling and prepping is everything for prices, salted and if poorly skinned, it will fetch junk prices. $80 for western seems typical lately and I can't imagine properly prepped eastern being less than $40, though as another poster remarked perhaps prices have tanked, I certainly haven't heard that yet however.
 
Dad got an average of 170 $ for a lot of 22 pelts IIRC. Western obviously.
Beaver and coon were a waste of time he said.
But as far as his high price...he's been doing it a long time. He's good at it, lost art I suppose.
He does not use salt; not that I'm finding fault with it, don't need to start a p*ssing contest over it's usage. I just know he doesn't use it.
 
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