How where prices for coyote hides

[Darrel in Minn]

this year, where you lived? Also interested how much bobcat hides where worth? I got $40 for the top on Wyoming coyote hides put up. $30 got most of the Wyo. put up pelts. In SE Minnesota I got $20 for my best local coyote just skinned. Also had one that was worth $0. Sounds like prices went up a little after I sold. Selling hides is always interesting. I swear there are few hides the buyers consider nice enough for them. Part of the game. Darrel

[Coyote Duster]

You get a better price if you send them directly to the auction at Hudson Bay Toronto. That's what the buyers do with them.

[Silverfox_in_ND]

Darrel in Minn--There is fur buyer who travels around to Williston and many other small towns in the NW corner of North Dakota buying furs in the round as well as put-up furs. There isn't much difference in the price between put-up furs and those in the round, so I don't bother skinning, fleshing, cleaning, stretching and drying any of my furs. I think I had one coyote, rubbed on the hind haunches and an ugly color that I got $10 for. My best coyote fetched $35. I can't justify spending a bunch of time working up furs for the little difference the local buyer pays. If I was shipping them up to Canada, then I'd have no choice. There are some fees you have to pay when you sell furs up in Canada. You have to find someone who will get them across the border and then the auction house takes a little percentage too.

Back in the 1970s and through most of the 1980s, my hunting partner and I worked up all of our red fox and coyote hides and shipped them up to the Dominion Soudak Fur Auctions in Winnipeg, MB CANADA. We got some very nice prices for those furs, but we did take good care of them and they were usually graded pretty high.

[OrneryCuss]

No point in skinning them here.....$25 bounty for TWO ears.

[Catfish]

I only know of 2 buyers that will buy Ohio coyotes and the best one pays $6, but he said he would reather skin them himself. With fuel prices at what they are now it cost me 27 cents a mile to drive my pick-up so fuel, just to the buyer, cost me more than I can get out of a coyote.

[Darrel in Minn]

Definately need numbers to make it pay then. I suppose you live that much further south so the hides may not be as good. Darrel

[coyotehunter56]

Catfish,
I sold 12 coyotes to a fur buyer in Union City, OH. this year. Averaged $18 per hide. I just throw mine in the freezer until I get enough to make it worth the trip. Don't know what part of Ohio you are from, but I have to drive almost an hour to get to him.

Let me know if you want his phone number.

Mike

[Tim Anderson]

I got a 17.00 avr. on coyotes put up and a 15.00 avr. on red fox also put up. Coon brought a 12.00 avr. sold in the green. A friend went to Texas the year before and brought back 60 some coyotes which brought a 20.00 avr. put up..

[john benetti]

Years ago our coyotes [west central In.]were all basically the same color and worth something but over the years they got darker and now one can kill a brown,a yellow, a red, part black and an all black coyote the same day.All were silver gray , heavilly furred ,and avg. 30-40 lbs.Killed 35 this year and never got one over 25lbs. I'd say.Probably only 2-3 looked alike and most had the shortest fur ever.They can't even use them for trim.They end up in a fenceline or ditch where the discs don,t catch the hides.I've seen two all white coyoes and was lucky enough to take one-Hornady used the picture in thier cataloge that year--40 gr. V-max , Ruger 22ppc.Shot some Nebraska coyotes and got $55 a few years ago, that was tops--&$35 in Ind.