Skins

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Does anybody bother skinning catches any more and are there still companies buying them .Just interested as i was looking back through a diary when fox pelts were averaging £15 and moles £1.50 .Early 90s.

[Greyman 28,803]

Does anybody bother skinning catches any more and are there still companies buying them .Just interested as i was looking back through a diary when fox pelts were averaging £15 and moles £1.50 .Early 90s.

the good old days, everything had a value jays wings,hares masks squirrel tails, along with the normal pelts, going back to the 80s we used to get upto £25 for a fox pelt and if they were tagged by the local uni a further £5 for the tag or £25 for a transmitter making a total of £50 for one fox with a collar, I would guess there is still a market somewhere but not in our country and the price of sending them abroad, if you were allowed would probably cost more than the fur was worth, maybe a small market with taxidermists ? Google is your friend in these cases

[EDDIE B 3,166]

Think I mentioned before, a young lad from the US, who moved over to Ireland a few years ago, was snaring fox's, and his Dad, who traveled over and back to the US on business, used to bring the pelts with him. This was when the market was good, and fox pelts were fetching around 50 dollars.

 

He also mentioned that the big Irish pelts were getting top dollar!

 

Thing is, he said it was cheap enough get them over. Of course it ain't possible for the majority, but shows it can be done!

[neil cooney 10,416]

Yep, there's a company from Scandinavia came to Ireland last year and told the Gun Clubs they'd give 25 euro for quality fox pelts and 20 for quality mink.

Apparently the Irish pelts are of a superb quality, I'm not sure if they wanted them wet or dry and the company offered to give demonstrations on how to skin correctly.

When you think about it, the lads in the 70s were getting £25 for a fox pelt when a man on a building site was getting that for a days wages.

The most I ever got was £7 and that was the late 80s.

I wouldn't like to see the trade taking off in a big way again personally.

[fat man 4,741]

Yep, there's a company from Scandinavia came to Ireland last year and told the Gun Clubs they'd give 25 euro for quality fox pelts and 20 for quality mink.

Apparently the Irish pelts are of a superb quality, I'm not sure if they wanted them wet or dry and the company offered to give demonstrations on how to skin correctly.

When you think about it, the lads in the 70s were getting £25 for a fox pelt when a man on a building site was getting that for a days wages.

The most I ever got was £7 and that was the late 80s.

I wouldn't like to see the trade taking off in a big way again personally.

I can remember geting £23 for wet skins,£25 for dry,drying was not worth the hassle for £3quid so all were sold wet.I know of 2 brothers that used to take from october to end of january of work to go at the foxs and were taking anything up to 15-20 a night lamping with the rifle.They customised an old hiace van cutting a square out of the roof and fitting a shooting rack where the square was cut,1 would drive along while the 2nd would do the lamping and shooting.They would start out at maybe 7pm and return at 5-6 am next morn traveling all over the country.

[Greyman 28,803]

 

Yep, there's a company from Scandinavia came to Ireland last year and told the Gun Clubs they'd give 25 euro for quality fox pelts and 20 for quality mink.

Apparently the Irish pelts are of a superb quality, I'm not sure if they wanted them wet or dry and the company offered to give demonstrations on how to skin correctly.

When you think about it, the lads in the 70s were getting £25 for a fox pelt when a man on a building site was getting that for a days wages.

The most I ever got was £7 and that was the late 80s.

I wouldn't like to see the trade taking off in a big way again personally.

 

I can remember geting £23 for wet skins,£25 for dry,drying was not worth the hassle for £3quid so all were sold wet.I know of 2 brothers that used to take from october to end of january of work to go at the foxs and were taking anything up to 15-20 a night lamping with the rifle.They customised an old hiace van cutting a square out of the roof and fitting a shooting rack where the square was cut,1 would drive along while the 2nd would do the lamping and shooting.They would start out at maybe 7pm and return at 5-6 am next morn traveling all over the country.

we used to put snares around the bottom of the school fence, just fold them up out the way during day time and drop them down on the evening, you would often feel the first one hit the fence before you had dropped all the snares, they were drawn from miles to get the pig bins that were used for the dinner time waste, also lamping on Clifton downs was very productive around miss milleys right in the middle of town, we would often be up there lamping and see our mates heading home after a night at the disco,very bizarre but much better than working for a living

[tilimangro 1,013]

I'm sure I read recently the markets coming back for pelts

[tilimangro 1,013]

I'm sure I read recently the markets coming back for pelts

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

What abut mole pelts

[nod 285]

Was offered 30p for mole pelts. Had to be dried and sent in packs of 10 I said I'll leave them in the field

[Welsh_red 4,690]

If it was 25 quid a fix now imagine the amount of people out shooting foxes

[neil cooney 10,416]

If it was 25 quid a fix now imagine the amount of people out shooting foxes

No good if shot. Snaring is the best way to keep a pelt good but when I used to sell a few I had a lurcher bitch that would pin them down by the cheek and she never put a hole in them, nor ever got a hole put in herself either for that matter.

[Dunkanon 380]

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[Welsh_red 4,690]

 

 

If it was 25 quid a fix now imagine the amount of people out shooting foxes

No good if shot. Snaring is the best way to keep a pelt good but when I used to sell a few I had a lurcher bitch that would pin them down by the cheek and she never put a hole in them, nor ever got a hole put in herself either for that matter.

that makes sense . Didn't think of the bullet hole

[tilimangro 1,013]

What do they buy mole skins for?