BOUNTY ON FOX 1950,S ???

[Guest Chip]

I was mooching around a bit of new permission today and bumped into a nice old fella it turns out he used to do a fair bit of hunting and a little with the terriers.

we must have stood there gassing for an hour he tells me he moved over here from donegal ireland back in the 50,s and them days there was a bounty on fox and would be paid for every fox killed.

he said the police or official you took them to would nick the foxes tongue to stop you claiming for the same fox twice by taking it to another police station

they must of been plague proportions back then to have a bounty on them any light on it??

its all history

thinking back to our chat im unsure wether the bounty was in ireland or uk when he moved over..

[dev 227]

there was a bounty on foxes in the north of ireland at the time for sure, one of the old guys from my neck of the woods caught so many that he was called" foxy pat" a name that stuck with him till he died last year.

[lawrence 657]

there was one in Ireland, i think you got paid per brush produced at the local police station, though not 100% on that, i dare say there's boys on here would know better.

[jimmys shop 182]

i know there was a bounty on foxe,s in Ireland

in the ,S ,there was well known guys from Waterford

who could enlighten you to all the old skull duggery about

conning the Garda Siochanna into paying twice .

[Born Hunter 17,907]

Does anyone know exactly why there was bountys for dead foxes? Im assuming possibly during the war to protect valuable meat supplies, farm stock and game etc.

[Guest Chip]

do you reckon it were a bit of a fibb about the notch in the tongue????

or maybe an older method before the brushes were traded in the old fella said it worked out to about 50p a fox and said it was good money back then...

Edited May 31, 2009 by Chip

[the_stig 6,614]

i know there was a bounty on foxe,s in Ireland

in the ,S ,there was well known guys from Waterford

who could enlighten you to all the old skull duggery about

conning the Garda Siochanna into paying twice .

shamus erwin made a living out of it in the 80s

[foxfan 479]

Dont know about a bounty, but in the 80s a prime pelt was worth £25 (maybe they still are, i dont know) from "cobbledicks"

I'm sure a bounty wouldnt pay that much, so why would you bother with it ?

[Guest Chip]

Dont know about a bounty, but in the 80s a prime pelt was worth £25 (maybe they still are, i dont know) from "cobbledicks"

I'm sure a bounty wouldnt pay that much, so why would you bother with it ?

i spoke to several old fellas who used to sell pelts 15 notes one said he got for his possibly the 70,s but ive not heard of any one doing it these days dont think theres a market for them.

[foxfan 479]

The money went out of the pelts in the late 80s, then we had the mange epidemic in the 90s, i think cobbledicks, who were the sole buyers of pelts in the uk

 

have gone out of business.

 

But if the pelts are worth aanything now, i think we will see a resurgence in pelt hunters, now that folk are losing their jobs again.

[dev 227]

do you reckon it were a bit of a fibb about the notch in the tongue????

or maybe an older method before the brushes were traded in the old fella said it worked out to about 50p a fox and said it was good money back then...

they did cut the tongues out of them at the police stations

[swagboy 9]

sow a pelt at the markit macke £10 at x-mas time

[breffni 3]

The anti fur fuuukers put a stop to it in the 80s.

There was a good bounty for grey crows as well,i heard some funny stories about them.

But to slow at typing to tell them.

[liamdelaney 2,587]

I made a living out of it in the eightes. Digging em snaring and lamping.25 pounds per fox.A farrier bought them in Limerick and it was good money back then.With nobody working we were glad of it.You had to use a soft dog when digging a hard dog would damage the pelt and it was worth less.

[desertdog 149]

i can remember back inthe eighties, pelts being sent down to cobbledicks, £25 for wet pelt, the lads also used to sell them in hertford mkt and get between £12 and £17 each, old jim tookey would buy them and sell them on.i reckon it all went tits up, when the antis kicked up about fur farming.