fox shooters

s-cogan · 03-09-2009 8:34pm #1

what do ye do with the foxes post-shooting if ye dont mind my asking?????
just curious as i cant think anything to do with em!!!!

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riflehunter77 · 03-09-2009 8:44pm

s-cogan wrote: »

what do ye do with the foxes post-shooting if ye dont mind my asking?????
just curious as i cant think anything to do with em!!!!
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cogan

Usually throw them into the nearest ditch, a week or two nothing will be left of them.

Dusty87 · 03-09-2009 8:48pm

I take the tails off and give them to a mate in a gun club for the vermin count. Throw the rest in the ditch. Few weeks later and there s only a few bones and teeth left

cavan shooter · 03-09-2009 9:34pm

I skin them and sell the furs, 35€ last time made over €1000 last year.
Tails get made into stoals got €12 for them.

With the recession on people are going mad for chic warm coats with added musk.

foxshooter243 · 03-09-2009 9:40pm

cavan shooter wrote: »

I skin them and sell the furs, 35€ last time made over €1000 last year.
Tails get made into stoals got €12 for them.

With the recession on people are going mad for chic warm coats with added musk.

35 euro for a fox skin:eek:- I didnt pick up 64 last year!!:(

moose112 · 03-09-2009 9:44pm

cavan shooter wrote: »

I skin them and sell the furs, 35€ last time made over €1000 last year.
Tails get made into stoals got €12 for them.

With the recession on people are going mad for chic warm coats with added musk.

This def deserves some investigating see if anyone around me buying them

cavan shooter · 03-09-2009 9:46pm

Guy I worked with in england did something similiar trapping moles making a fortune now suppling mole skins for the manufacture of trousers.

E mc kiernan · 03-09-2009 9:47pm

cavan shooter if you dont mind me asking but who or where do you get rid of the skins?do they take rabbit skins?thanks cavan for sam 2010 ha

Dusty87 · 03-09-2009 9:51pm

E mc kiernan wrote: »

thanks cavan for sam 2010 ha

Humour forum is a few doors up:):)

cavan shooter · 03-09-2009 9:56pm

All kidding aside.....Mine get dragged towards a ditch where I can try get the mags and greys over the coming weeks. The tail goes for the vermin count

A lad I know did take a skin and tried to make a hand warmer for his daughter, poor child couldnt walk past a dog without it going mad:D:D

ferret man · 03-09-2009 10:06pm

i am from donegal and was wondering where do ya sell the skins and what way have they to be treated before being sold

johngalway · 03-09-2009 10:38pm

cavan shooter wrote: »

I skin them and sell the furs, 35€ last time made over €1000 last year.
Tails get made into stoals got €12 for them.

With the recession on people are going mad for chic warm coats with added musk.

What's a "stoal" for us vocabularilarilillythingy challenged?

ayapatrick · 03-09-2009 10:46pm

johngalway wrote: »

What's a "stoal" for us vocabularilarilillythingy challenged?

it had me thinking, butafaik its a thing youd wear round your neck.:D

cavan shooter · 03-09-2009 10:52pm

A fox fur that you drape over your shoulders, makes you look like: http://www.gracefulandglorious.com/gracefulandgloriousshop/prod_449877-1930s-Fox-Fur-Stole.html

moose112 · 03-09-2009 10:58pm

cavan shooter wrote: »

A fox fur that you drape over your shoulders, makes you look like: http://www.gracefulandglorious.com/gracefulandgloriousshop/prod_449877-1930s-Fox-Fur-Stole.html

It would take a brave woman to walk down Grafton street with that on:D

4gun · 03-09-2009 10:58pm

Could you imagine thie missus goin' out with that draped around her.... she'd probably get herself lamped:D

cavan shooter · 03-09-2009 11:11pm

they dont make women like that anymore:(:( when women knew what they wanted and foxes were nervous lol

Terrier · 03-09-2009 11:12pm

cavan shooter wrote: »

I skin them and sell the furs, 35€ last time made over €1000 last year.
Tails get made into stoals got €12 for them.

With the recession on people are going mad for chic warm coats with added musk.

I have 106 tails from this year already! 35x107=3745

I should have stayed in the pub...

J.R. · 03-09-2009 11:14pm

I remember in the 80's when fox skins were being bought for a premium price.

We were getting between £18 - £25 for each fox skin......average was £20.....depending on condition........the most we ever got for a fabulous dog fox in prime winter coat was £27......he was a beauty!!!!

That was when a pint of Guinness was 32p!!!!

At roughly 3 pints of Guinness for £1...at the time...we were getting the equivalent of 60 pints of Guinness for each fox.....in todays money ....allowing €3.50 for a pint of Guinness .......X 60......we were roughly getting the pricely sum of €270 for each fox !!!!!!!!!

I remember heading back to college each January with roughly £400 in my pocket when the money was divided out.......that was after having a brilliant Christmas.............kept me in college for the rest of the year.

Friends of mine....at the time.....who devoted anytime they had to fox shooting...day or night.....travelling the country .......built extensions to their houses or purchased relatively new cars from the proceeds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4gun · 03-09-2009 11:50pm

cavan shooter wrote: »

they dont make women like that anymore:(:( when women knew what they wanted and foxes were nervous lol

When them super models vowed that they "would rather go naked than wear fur".....well a great oppertunity was missed:D

cavan shooter · 04-09-2009 9:35am

And what eegit didnt push that one:D

cavan shooter · 04-09-2009 9:38am

J.R. wrote: »

I remember in the 80's when fox skins were being bought for a premium price.

We were getting between £18 - £25 for each fox skin......average was £20.....depending on condition........the most we ever got for a fabulous dog fox in prime winter coat was £27......he was a beauty!!!!

That was when a pint of Guinness was 32p!!!!

At roughly 3 pints of Guinness for £1...at the time...we were getting the equivalent of 60 pints of Guinness for each fox.....in todays money ....allowing €3.50 for a pint of Guinness .......X 60......we were roughly getting the pricely sum of €270 for each fox !!!!!!!!!

I remember heading back to college each January with roughly £400 in my pocket when the money was divided out.......that was after having a brilliant Christmas.............kept me in college for the rest of the year.

Friends of mine....at the time.....who devoted anytime they had to fox shooting...day or night.....travelling the country .......built extensions to their houses or purchased relatively new cars from the proceeds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Dad made money more money shooting foxes in the 40's and 50's, than he got from work.

I hope they dont bring back the bounty, every idiot would be out with a gun and lamp. Last year I nearly quit lamping altogether when i heard of what some idiots where doing

Trojan911 · 04-09-2009 10:01am

4gun wrote: »

Could you imagine thie missus goin' out with that draped around her.... she'd probably get herself lamped:D

So true.... Lamped as in punched by the great unwashed or lamped by an overkeen shooter.....

I used to give the carcasses over to Neo Researcher but I don't really shoot them at night anymore, I just crew up with a buddy sometimes who does the shooting & I do the lamping.