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Title: NAFA spring sale
Post by: 3nails on April 27, 2014, 12:41:46 PM: Getting pumped to see how well we do. Interesting to see that there are so much fewer muskrats in the offering. I thought for sure those numbers would go up due to more trappers because of the high fur prices. Looks like around 100,000 less rats! Maybe that will bode well for prices. Otter, mink and bobcat appear to be roughly the same as last year. Beaver are up. Unfortunately all my fur will be sold Monday and Tuesday so I can't see the results until I get home from work.
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: trapperguy22 on April 27, 2014, 07:15:18 PM: 3-nails,
from what i have heard the low numbers are due in part of the doughts back east and the very cold winter that the mid west had this year. From what i saw when i was back in wi. a few weeks ago there are not many rats left. good luck on the up coming sale. i do know that there is just short of 9000 rats from oregon and washington that are going to be on that sale because thats how many I picked up for this sale, that is the most i have ever had for one sale so far.
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: trapperguy22 on May 10, 2014, 04:21:02 PM: lotting letters are up, time to go on and see how you did for grades!!!!! coon wasn't up yet last time i checked but everything else was!
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: ouchfoss on May 10, 2014, 05:19:59 PM: I actually got one otter and one cat graded to I* which I have never gotten before. Looking forward to see what they go for but also wondering how much the turmoil in Russia will effect the prices too. Oh the suspense!!
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: Carp Commander on May 10, 2014, 06:05:04 PM: Why are some skins identified with an asterisk indicating they have been labelled?
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: 3nails on May 10, 2014, 06:21:13 PM: Too many acronyms! :chuckle:
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: ouchfoss on May 10, 2014, 09:25:41 PM: Here's a sticky from trapperman that tells you a little about the NAFA lotting and grading.
http://www.trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4467011/NAFA_Q_&_A#Post4467011 (http://www.trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4467011/NAFA_Q_&_A#Post4467011)
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: Humptulips on May 10, 2014, 11:02:25 PM: Quote from: Carp Commander on May 10, 2014, 06:05:04 PM
Why are some skins identified with an asterisk indicating they have been labelled?

Labeled furs are a good thing. Only the best make the cut. Ka-ching!
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: 3nails on May 11, 2014, 10:23:44 AM: REALLY proud of how much better my sons mink and muskrats turned out. Lots of sel, and *1's. With just a little more care he not only went up in quality but went from 1 rat last year at 3xl-xxl to 43 at that size. 20 last year at xl to 73 xl this year! Can't wait to see him reap the rewards.
On a side note, under season receipts it says 17 mink. In the lotting letter only 16 show up. I wonder what happened to our other mink? :dunno:
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: trapperguy22 on May 11, 2014, 01:33:36 PM: 3nails they are still lotting some stuff, it is common to have some missing fur it will show up. if it doesn't at the end of the sale give me a call or pm and i will check it out for you. i also have a couple of things missing.
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: 3nails on May 11, 2014, 02:00:44 PM: Quote from: trapperguy22 on May 11, 2014, 01:33:36 PM
3nails they are still lotting some stuff, it is common to have some missing fur it will show up. if it doesn't at the end of the sale give me a call or pm and i will check it out for you. i also have a couple of things missing.
OK good. Thanks Adam.
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: Humptulips on May 11, 2014, 10:25:08 PM: Looks like a pretty hard grade on the otters from the looks of my account. Grades on the beaver look good though.

I have three possum and they all graded dmg. I would like to know what you have to do to not damage them. The chest fur is impossible to not have slip when fleshing it seems to me. :dunno:
I imagine that would be a fine looking coat made out of possum chest fur. :chuckle:
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: trapperguy22 on May 12, 2014, 07:00:30 PM: It will be interesting to see what the rats go for! Only 250,000 on this sale last May was something like 750,000. My mink graded really good this time.
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: 3nails on May 16, 2014, 06:04:58 PM: Ok so SEL=Select, SDG= Slight Damage anyone know what SLT and SDA stand for?
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: Cultusman on May 16, 2014, 07:35:49 PM: SDA = Slt Damaged A
SLT = First Grade with slight defects

Good luck next week!
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: 3nails on May 19, 2014, 06:00:31 PM: Well how's the sale going for everyone? Up and down for us. $9.75 average for our rats. $18 for mink. Only 1 out of 5 otters sold so far. $62 for the one. Just beaver and cats for us tomorrow.
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: aer212 on May 19, 2014, 07:44:05 PM: Any coyotes at the sale? What did they go for?
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: ouchfoss on May 19, 2014, 09:43:48 PM: I sold one otter for $48 but my other one was a I* and it was bought back.
Sold one coon for $10 and my other 4 were bought back.
I got a feeling none of my beaver are going to get sold tomorrow with the way things went today.
I guess I cant buy a new corvette now. :bash: :chuckle:
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: Humptulips on May 19, 2014, 10:56:20 PM: I'm happy with the rat prices. I averaged 11.90 before commission. high of $14.00 and a low of $9.50

Other then that mostly BB. They sold my best otter for $64 XXXL Select Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: UrbanTrapper on May 22, 2014, 11:59:50 PM: Sheesh! I shoulda sold my otter to George Brady when he offered to buy them.
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: Humptulips on May 23, 2014, 10:33:32 AM: It is pretty discouraging. Appears to be low clearances across the board.
I think we have been hit with the perfect storm of bad news, political problems and a warm winter in our markets.
I have heard the mink ranchers had ramped up production to as much as 80 million mink worldwide and with the prices they are getting it will force a lot into bankruptcy. That in turn will put all their breeding stock on the market next year. That may put 100 million mink on the market. Add to that all the unsold goods looking for a home and next year doesn't look to good.

On the bright side muskrats seem to have retained their value. Who can figure that out?
Title: Re: NAFA spring sale
Post by: trapperguy22 on May 23, 2014, 03:04:44 PM: Bruce that seems about right, and i too can not figure out why the rats continue to stay high but I hope they do!!