Gee-mon-nee Christmas, $50.00? I think I was only lucky enough to get that much once, the whole time I ever did those stinking things. And I did 100's of them, course I got a top lot certificate from North American for that one too.
Well good on you trapper. That's a good pay off for 5 yotes. IIRC back in 96' or 97' the wife an I took a car load of hides up to NAFA in Wis.. When we arrived one of the workers helped us unload the car at the dock. He told us to come on in to the grading room and started to open up the shipping bags. After everything was gone through he turned to us and said 'walk around and check things out, I'll be back in a few minutes.'. We could not believe how many different colors of coon hide fur there could be. From pure white to jet black and every shade in between. About 5 minutes later the guy found us and he had a check for $3000.00. ( We had 9 bags full.) I looked at it and asked him what this was for. He said that anybody that brings fur in themselves gets paid in advance. So I said how do you know they will bring this much. Answer was, we now know who you are and that you know what your doing. Don't worry about it. Sure enough, at the next auction I got another check for $119.00 more and everything sold. We was happy campers for a while. Be safe for next season trapper.