Question for the trappers

[yoda4x4]

To all the trappers on this site, I have a single, simple question for you. After you skin the animals you have trapped, what do you do with the meat: eat, use for something else, or toss? I'm not knocking what you do, it's just something I've always was curious about. Thanks!

 

David

 

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[Buck154]

Beaver i give to someone for bear bait. Fox and coyote go back to nature. Years ago had people to buy coon to eat

[Silver Belly62]

Everyone's situation is different, depending where they are. Usually sold the muskrat to the organizations that would put on the muskrat dinners down this way, but sadly that is fading away. Then I would have others on a list that would want the coon, opossum, beaver, and any extra muskrats.  K9's as already stated back to nature. Some trappers that make there own lures or baits may use some meat for that etc.  

Edited January 8, 2019 by Silver Belly62

[Ringtail]

They get discarded. I bring them to the same place I dump my deer carcass remains. 

[Woodsman416]

Back when legholds were still legal, and when I lived in Pa., I used muskrats for mink, coon and fox bait.

[rgw]

Muskrat and beaver get used for bait, actually my fox do also sort of. I put the fox carcass where I trap. Other fox won't eat them but the sent draws others to the area. Mink I save glands for lure, nothing will touch a coyote or otter

[Bucndoe]

Everything goes into a bait for other furbearers. I take glands and anything else I can use and make my own lures. I don't waste anything.

[bushden]

I have not trapped in the last 50 + years however way back when I was a young man trapping in NJ, I was getting $1. 00 a pound for whole coon unskinned. That was good money back in the 60's. How many of you old guys remember that.

[T10R4]

I was getting $5 coon carcass with feet on (wanted to make sure I wasn't throwing in a cat) and $1 per muskrat.  $2 per possum...

[traphound]

there is a market for the meats if you can find someone to buy them,rats and coon anyway,there is also a market for the skulls,teeth,claws.pecker bones and glands. If I'm eating them its only the rats and beaver.

 

[Bucndoe]

46 minutes ago, traphound said:

there is a market for the meats if you can find someone to buy them,rats and coon anyway,there is also a market for the skulls,teeth,claws.pecker bones and glands. If I'm eating them its only the rats and beaver.

 

When the zombies come I will eat them, until then I will keep using them for bait

Edited January 8, 2019 by Bucndoe