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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1400675" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Back when I was seriously trapping in the 80's we were averaging about $25 each for beaver pelts. They are not easy to skin, flesh, and stretch. It takes some experience to get it down to under one per hour. I would catch 6 to 12 a day but that was all day and burning up a good amount a gas in the pickup. Then I spent 3 or 4 hours in the fur shed just skinning them. I would freeze the hides to finish putting them up later. I am certain if you figured my time and money spent I didn't make wages but I enjoyed doing it and it gave me a break from falling timber for a couple months in the winter. Now the hides are not worth as much. I hear a $15 average. I doubt a person would clear minimum wage for your time trapping beavers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1400675, member: 498"] Back when I was seriously trapping in the 80's we were averaging about $25 each for beaver pelts. They are not easy to skin, flesh, and stretch. It takes some experience to get it down to under one per hour. I would catch 6 to 12 a day but that was all day and burning up a good amount a gas in the pickup. Then I spent 3 or 4 hours in the fur shed just skinning them. I would freeze the hides to finish putting them up later. I am certain if you figured my time and money spent I didn't make wages but I enjoyed doing it and it gave me a break from falling timber for a couple months in the winter. Now the hides are not worth as much. I hear a $15 average. I doubt a person would clear minimum wage for your time trapping beavers. [/QUOTE]
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