Registered: Dec 2008
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Anyone heard what coon hide prices are going to be? I have heard some ungodly numbers by local hunters but dont no how true it is. I am from Ohio and was just wondering if anyone had heard anything.

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I WAS TOLD 20.00 PER HIDE. PERSONALLY I WOULD NOT CARE IF THEY DROPPED TO 1.00..............

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I would be surprised to see country fur buyers paying $20 even for XXXL northern extra heavy's. I'd empty the freezer tomorrow if someone here would pay that. Early reports are about an $8 average across the board on prime coon. Most northern states are just now seeing prime coon with small coon and wet sows still blue. When I lived in southern Michigan I saw most coon prime up around Nov. 1. Here most are prime by Oct. 15th.

One thing many people don't understand is how the country fur buyer buys fur. He usually knows what he needs to hit for an average so here's how it goes.

You take him 20 hides. He wants to get them all for $8.00 each hoping to sell them for at least a $14.00 average making $6.00 per hide.

He pays you:

2 @ $18
4 @ $14
4 @ $9
5 @ $5
2 @ $3
3 @ $1

You walk away with $162 in your pocket and say "WOW! I can't believe I got $18 for those 2 coon and $14 for those 4 other big ones!!!! I thought they were only paying eight dollars!" Guess what, you got $8.10.

If the market tanks and he sells all his coon for $8 he worked his butt off for nothing. If the market peaks and he averages $18 then it payed off but he still worked his butt off. If they don't buy like that they're not in business long. One bad season has put more wannabe fur buyers out of business than I can remember.

Fur prices controlled by supply, demand and the value of the dollar.

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I would be surprised to see country fur buyers paying $20 even for XXXL northern extra heavy's. I'd empty the freezer tomorrow if someone here would pay that. Early reports are about an $8 average across the board on prime coon. Most northern states are just now seeing prime coon with small coon and wet sows still blue. When I lived in southern Michigan I saw most coon prime up around Nov. 1. Here most are prime by Oct. 15th.

One thing many people don't understand is how the country fur buyer buys fur. He usually knows what he needs to hit for an average so here's how it goes.

You take him 20 hides. He wants to get them all for $8.00 each hoping to sell them for at least a $14.00 average making $6.00 per hide.

He pays you:

2 @ $18
4 @ $14
4 @ $9
5 @ $5
2 @ $3
3 @ $1

You walk away with $162 in your pocket and say "WOW! I can't believe I got $18 for those 2 coon and $14 for those 4 other big ones!!!! I thought they were only paying eight dollars!" Guess what, you got $8.10.

If the market tanks and he sells all his coon for $8 he worked his butt off for nothing. If the market peaks and he averages $18 then it payed off but he still worked his butt off. If they don't buy like that they're not in business long. One bad season has put more wannabe fur buyers out of business than I can remember.

Fur prices controlled by supply, demand and the value of the dollar.

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Its not looking good with China being one of our biggest buyers and their economy tanking following the market crash two fridays ago......

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Hit my doorstep yesterday... Says 20 for a northern jumbo, not many guys on here catching those..... Most of us are catching eastern coat types at best... 5 bucks probably a bit higher if you have big ones that are prime and you flesh and stretch em.

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I just sold 72 coon last week and averaged $10.88 a buddy of mine sold five and averaged $15.25. I sell around 300-400 coon a year so the buyer usually cuts me a little better deal. Last year I sold all of my coon at $9.00 straight across the board. Seems to me like things are looking up this year. Oh yeah and my rats just sold for $5.00 straight across the board. All of these prices where on the carcass.

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GROENWALD IS PAYING $25.00 TOPS AND WE HAVE A $14.50 AVERAGE GOING ON RIGHT AT 60 COON. <v>

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We have 2 buyers within 35 miles and both are paying $5 tops i would say we are getting screwed if there bringing double this down south

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vermont is $4 thats why all my hides r still running around the woods

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the cheaper they r the less spotlighters and killers runnin around n the timbers,i don't care what they bring just so i can buy a bag of dogfood or pay for my huntin liscence with the money i get i'll b happy.when their real high people just kill em for the money anyhow.not everyone does,but a lot do.

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Registered: Dec 2007
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is ther somewhere in south georgia to sell hides

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Registered: Oct 2007
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i sold 120 hides two weeks ago had a twentytwo doller average throught gruenwald

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Don't want to tork ya off Nate but that is hard to beileve based on Groenwald's top dollar being $25 like Perry said. I sold 27 last nite and avg'd $11.50 (Groenwald). I had 1 at $25 and it was 49" nose to tail.........u must have had 100 XXL's......................................

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well i dont no where your hides are from but i get plenty of coon and i wont take anything small almost every hide was 25 but there were a couple 18 so thats wat i had. lots of big coon up here and they have ben prime sence begining of october

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we carry a scale with us and not one under thirty one 48# one 45# talk about monsters

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same conversation for the last 20 years they always say they will give you so much then when you get there they start dollar here two dollars here im leaving mine in the woods and like someone said it is supply and demand, if everyone quit selling them for a couple dollars the demand would go up.

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i dont even plan on keepin them. there more valuable to my dogs then me. i only take a couple a week. keeps farmers happy.

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we carry a scale with us and not one under thirty one 48# one 45# talk about monsters

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You shot 120 thirty pound plus coons this year? I mean I believe you have some big coon, but I fail to believe that every coon you shot was pushing 30. Maybe 119, but there had to be at least one that was 25 pounds or so....

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You shot 120 thirty pound plus coons this year? I mean I believe you have some big coon, but I fail to believe that every coon you shot was pushing 30. Maybe 119, but there had to be at least one that was 25 pounds or so....

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How does anyone have time to kill 120 coons?

I have killed 45 this year.

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Originally posted by jodaviess1
GROENWALD IS PAYING $25.00 TOPS AND WE HAVE A $14.50 AVERAGE GOING ON RIGHT AT 60 COON. <v>

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Registered: May 2005
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Nate i will sell all the ones i have and you can resell to groeny and make all kinds of money. lol. your only kidding yourself, everybody knows groeny doesn't pay those kind of averages.

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I was happy with $11.50avg..........had 5 football coon in there so otherwise would be bout 2 bucks higher..........Perry had a nice a bunch a coon in that picture of him, Todd and Buck so can believe he hit 14.50 for them. I have hunted and sold coon for 36 r so years and aint never seen a 48#er as Nate shoots .......anyway, I dont believe ya can shoot those size coon up nort on a berry diet and not see em on corn down here...........whatever......
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To summ it all up! I sell big coon and everything that has been said is ******** I sold mine today and there was no average above 20 dollars sold 63 coon today and averaged 4 dollars a coon is a coon and 43 of mine were XXX coon you all must have coon deeped in gold

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