BOUNTY ON FOX 1950,S ???

[foxfan 479]

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.

 

 

Yep all pelts sold wet, rolled onto brown paper, wrapped and sent by courrier. Dont know how they graded them but some you thought were ok, got less than a

tenner for, only the tip top fetched £25.

[fish 148]

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..

we get 2 euro per tale for fox and the same for a coypu tale here in france.

[bolty 45]

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..

we get 2 euro per tale for fox and the same for a coypu tale here in france.

we used to get money back in the early seventies from the farmers hoo set up a club and you would get paid per tail out of a kitty . then the money came on the skins in about 1980 and we get paid per skin on the condition it was the worst thing that happened as soon has the money came on the pelts every farmer around was setting snairs and it didnt do much for the terrier work has people was more concerned with getting a undamaged skin than digging a fox that a dog had killed to ground best thing that ever happened was when the money went off them . for terrier work and for hunting .i wouldnt like to see it return.

[pattstaff 157]

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..

 

An oul boy near me used to collect the bounty on them years ago.At that time he said they cut the tongue off in the station and he had to get rid of the fox himself but what they used to do was buy a packet off back bacon and cut the slices into the shape off the foxes tongue and go into the station with the bacon hanging out to be cut off and theyd march round as many stations as they could that day getting the bounty on the same fox,feckin genius

[Waz 4,266]

I know a guy that worked in the fur trade along with all his family, was a great business to be in till along came Linda Mcartney.

[goldfinch2007 2,332]

cracking thread,this boys.but was the bounty paid.were we over run with foxs.

[gizmo 1]

cracking thread,this boys.but was the bounty paid.were we over run with foxs.

yes there was a bounty paid in ireland tand there was a way of getting paid twice for it

if the fox was stinking flys and all the old bill wouldnt touch itor so i am told as one of the lads i hunt with his boss used to do it

dont know exactly how miuch he got for them

[Hepher 86]

IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND THERE WAS A BOUNTY ON THE TONGUE OF FOXES ALTHOUGH IT WAS ONLY 10 BOB, 50P IN TODAYS MONEY.

[bignoel 14]

late 70's/ early 's we were getting £35 a pelt skined nose to nails posted wet .till ALF put the nose in fookt the company up.noel

[desertdog 149]

i think the way they were graded was the conditon of the pelt, the better the pelt the better it was for you in your pocket, dont ever remember getting any less, than £18.00, these things will never come back, its a crying shame , all of it lost and allthe knowledge and history a way of life gone.,the lads would get out and be after old red as much as they could, and try and get him with out toomuch damage.

[Guest penny]

vince carsile (dead now)used to buy them lived in newry n ireland. he graded them payed diffrent prices.then sent them to england.was getting hundreds of them every week

[coneycatcher17 3]

they were sold for the pelts the brighter colored foxes fetched more than the darker ones fact!!!

[Guest ozzy]

my father used to snare foxes in 70 80s skin them streath them out on plywood with slab nails salt them post them to a smiths of deven cornwall 35 pound stirling it was worth nearly 50 punts at the time dole for 8 kids and parents was 100 punts at the time but guiness was a cheap :drink:pllus no fancy snares then ESB wire or wire from back of washeing machine tied on to chain an swivell happy days

Edited June 2, 2009 by ozzy

[westwicklow 4]

We got IR£17/fox in the dim and distant past! Was great until the anti-fur doo-gooders took over.... even released the mink from local mink farms. That was a very practical move which was welcomed by the farmers and locals.... NOT!

[Guest MickyB]

What methods were used to preserve the pelts?