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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by BirkyDucks[/i] [br]As you all may or may not know raw fur prices have dropped to all time lows . With coons being the most undesirabel items on the market . This stems mostly on Russia who have always bought the gray furs Coon, GrayFox , etc. . But now with all the political uproar over the Ukrane and the ever shrinking rubel,33 cents to our dollar . Among this and other factors Russia is just not in the market right now and the future looks bleak . The big auction houses up in Canada have a million coon pelts in storage with nobody to buy them plus small country buyers are sitting on tons of coon pelts there just is not a market for them . This being said its not prudent to trap the coon on purpose . The buyers are saying release the small ones and only take the jumbos ,that would be 15 lbers and up . Releasing small coons is like opening the gates of hell . This weekend past I caught me a doubel on coon that got into my mink sets about 10' apart .They are very diffacult to get on a snare pole and release real squirmy . I got the one all ciched up and released him he swam to the other side of Penns creek and scampered up the bank .Coon 2 was a little more noisy after I got noose on he comenced to go off like a siren squaking and squeling but the job was done he too swam across Penns creek . Anyway this how is how I roll. [/quote]    Insert an Image File Check here to include your profile signature.