fox pelts.

[polecat 1]

me and my brother got 35 quid from a place in derbyshire back in good old days skined cleaned and masked

[pegandgun 52]

Shotgun shooting and snaring where the main ways to take fox.People cage trapped a few and shot them with .22 rimfires.Back then there wasnt really as many mink as today but to take mink it was fenn mk6s and snaring

I used to take all my corvid wings,starling capes and variousa other catch related stuff to the game dealers,but thats stopped now

[Guest A Sick Old Man]

I remember that the pelts had to be perfect to get the top dollar, no holes or rips.

And it was a long job stretching them out and getting a razor sharp knife to get all the fat off, drying them and trimming them. I am not sure it would be worth the money now, it was great pocket money for me as a youth,

 

Ta Ta Sick :sick:

[Guest stevo]

Id never thought about the pelts been exported and used like you say Peg for practical purposes as if they keep the animal warm there going to keep us warm 2

[runsatnite 7]

it was a firm called cobbledec spelling not right best i got was 20 you could send them wet /frozen by courier but i dont know what ever happened to them ! when i started keepering the boss of the next door shoot learned about the money he told his keeper he wanted half so 2 days later the keeper caught 2 foxes in wires and took one of the to the office and put both of them on the desk said to the boss which one do you want when the boss picked one the keeper gave him a knife and said better make a start then he never asked for anymore or any of the money after that !!!!!!!!

[Guest midnight_runner]

For those of you old enough to remember the good old days of selling pelts ,what was the best price you ever got ?.

20 to 25 wish they days were back

 

who bought the pelts lads and what were they used for,is there no demand for them these days???

if i remmember right with my old age lol i think it was a game dealer down south and they were used for jackets ithink not too suer

[pegandgun 52]

Good story Runsatnight

When it came to skinning,scraping,stretching and boarding it could be done quite quickly with practice.I can skin a fox in five mins,scrape in fifteen and then i would wash it in luke warm water and a touch of bleach.After that i would thoroughly rinse the pelt in warm water then hang it on the line to dry.

Then it was just a matter of tretching the pelt onto a board then standing it in the corner of the kitchen to air dry.There would be a pelt iether side of the board and you could use two or three boards.There was nothing put onto the pelt to help it dry,just air dried.

When these pelts got to the place of sale they would re-hydrate the pelts and they would need little doing to them to go into production

This is the way to get top money for your pelts in the "GOOD OLD DAYS"