Fox numbers in the '80's & pelt prices

J.R.

Mentioned a book before on here by Tom Mc Craughren 'Run With the Wind'.....nothing to do with shooting...it's about the life of foxes.

Anyway, at the end of the book the author has an author's note where he details the setting for the book....during the 80's when fox pelts were being bought.

I hunted lots of foxes during that period & remember it vividly.

Remember that when one got £20 for a fox skin in the '80's a pint of Guinness was 39p, or thereabouts......so in todays money a fox was worth roughly the same as 51 pints.....@ roughly € 3.70 a pint that's €188 per pelt!!!!!!!!!

Anybody interested in fox shooting / trapping during the 80's will find the info interesting.

Tackleberrywho

J.R. wrote: »

Mentioned a book before on here by Tom Mc Craughren 'Run With the Wind'.....nothing to do with shooting...it's about the life of foxes.

Anyway, at the end of the book the author has an author's note where he details the setting for the book....during the 80's when fox pelts were being bought.

I hunted lots of foxes during that period & remember it vividly.

Remember that when one got £20 for a fox skin in the '80's a pint of Guinness was 39p, or thereabouts......so in todays money a fox was worth roughly the same as 51 pints.....@ roughly € 3.70 a pint that's €188 per pelt!!!!!!!!!

Anybody interested in fox shooting / trapping during the 80's will find the info interesting.

Those were the days!

(I could open it, I have Office 2010)

Remmie 223

188 euro a fox.that would get alot of us
Through the recession

bunny shooter

Remmie 223 wrote: »

188 euro a fox.that would get alot of us
Through the recession

It got a lot of people through the last one

johnner1

bunny shooter wrote: »

It got a lot of people through the last one

and most of them were shot with the .22 rimfire, that's why it was called the bread and butter gun;)
from what i have heard from lads that were shooting them at the time, the trade was ruined by lads stockpiling pelts and freezing them during summer when they would have been moulting, also the anti fur brigade wouldnt have helped either

Savage93

J.R. wrote: »

Mentioned a book before on here by Tom Mc Craughren 'Run With the Wind'.....nothing to do with shooting...it's about the life of foxes.

Anyway, at the end of the book the author has an author's note where he details the setting for the book....during the 80's when fox pelts were being bought.

I hunted lots of foxes during that period & remember it vividly.

Remember that when one got £20 for a fox skin in the '80's a pint of Guinness was 39p, or thereabouts......so in todays money a fox was worth roughly the same as 51 pints.....@ roughly € 3.70 a pint that's €188 per pelt!!!!!!!!!

Anybody interested in fox shooting / trapping during the 80's will find the info interesting.

I know a lad who built his house out of selling fox pelts, no mortgage and it only took 300 pelts to do it!!!!

J.R.

Savage93 wrote: »

I know a lad who built his house out of selling fox pelts, no mortgage and it only took 300 pelts to do it!!!!

I put myself through college for three years with the proceeds & also had a great social life throughout that time.

I also know a few lads who build their houses from the income from fox shooting.

A fox road kill wasn't left for long on the roads in those days!!

J.R.

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Those were the days!

(I could open it, I have Office 2010)[/QUOTE]

You're right Tackleberrywho - I couldn't open it after uploading it - thought it was Word 2010 hitch but then noticed that my anti-virus needed updating.....wouldn't allow anything to upload until anti-virus was up to date (a good thing I suppose, but had me bamboozled for a while!!)

marlin

great times I used to run a good line of snares in the 80s and lamped with a little anschtuz 1450 .22
the extra income was welcome
but jr I don,t know where you got guinness for 39p/pint,I remember giving £1 a pint for guinness in a few pubs in limerick city in 1983 lol

landkeeper

and one lad bought two brand new mitsuibishi jeeps and cut the roof off one for lamping :eek:

Grizzly 45

It was a handy little number all right.So much that there was a shortage of foxes around my part of the world for about five years.The fox pouplation is now increasing again around here as there isnt much of a hunt,or lads out trying to make a few quid anymore.
Dont think it will be much of a seller anymore either,what with the Russians being able to dump tons of class furs on the market and commercial fur farms,not to mind the antis antics.I wouldnt rate it as much of a money earner anymore.
Although at least if there was a bounty on mink,we might get somwhere.:rolleyes:

pat25c

when i was a kid a garda who was based in Dublin, used to shoot fox's on his way from Dublin to his sisters place in achill and call in to our farm in galway . he once showed me and my dad a cow trailer full of fox pelts that he was about to sell in the north, dont know how much he made , but i heard he bought a boat out of it that he used to take people on fishing trips on . this was about the mid 80s.