Squirrel_Basher 17,102 Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 For those of you old enough to remember the good old days of selling pelts ,what was the best price you ever got ?. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Bigbob Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 £30 a pelt then every bugger jumped on the band wagon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
donnyc 1,203 Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Best we had was £35.Hounds never broke many up then Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mike dog 0 Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 £20 to £25 nice few bob at the end of the season Quote Link to post Share on other sites
logman 0 Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 My father in law got £30 a pelt in the late 80s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Bigbob Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 We had loads of snares out then and a german client over for the deer shooting shot one in a snare he was nearly lynched Forrestry commission paid a £1 a tail as well those where great days Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Geordie Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 who bought the pelts lads and what were they used for,is there no demand for them these days??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest jrearthdog1 Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 the best i got for fox was £35 it was them and wood pigeons 35 pence & rabbits at £1 that paid for my dogs food and my hunting costs Ian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swanseajack 228 Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 could try putting them on ebay :ph34r: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest A Sick Old Man Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 They went to the fur trade I guess We used to sell ours to a fella who advertised in the back of shooting times, £25 per pelt but they had to be good, dry and have the fat trimmed off and all cleaned up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
celt 1 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Just asked my dad, he sold them for between 20 and 30 in ireland in early to mid eighties. Back then a working fox dog (terrier) could be sold for 300 - 400 easy he said. He said Never sold a working dog though despite having 6 kids to feed on a jcb drivers wage. Fair play to him I think. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest grubygrafter Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 £26 a pelt .cleaned and dried. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pegandgun 52 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 I think bringing back the Fur trade would be a very good thing as long as,there was a close season for target species (any bad problems out of season should be sorted by a government trapper).All snares and traps should be "name tagged" so dodgey and dangerous trappers could be fined.I dont think many people would get on the band waggon because its not quite as easy to get good kill ratios as people would have you think and once people had to start skinning,scraping,stretching and drying skinns people would soon realize that its not the romantic lifestyle that they`ve read in books I dont have a clue how much the equivelent of £30. would be now......Maybe about £100.???????? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest stevo Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Its bad enough trying to dry out a rabbit skin never mined a fox skin so I don’t think that many people would be interested in it. Also there is some very good fake fur out there that’s much cheaper so I don’t think they would give you much for the genuine thing any whey Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pegandgun 52 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 I dont agree there Stevo.Most of our British pelts would be exported to Russia,china and other countrys around the world and they will pay top dollar for well primmed pelts.There no Fake fur ever made that will keep the cold out like real fur. People forget that furs arent just used for fashion,they are also used for practical purposes all over the world and as ive said before,our pelts are just waisted because we aint allowed to trade Furs anymore Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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