****** “” there is no money in wolf pelts” WRONG!!! Moscow Hide and fur catalog: Tammed wolf hides $399 to $699 depending on condition and size. Skunk around $60 to $70. otter, $200 to $300. coyote, $75 to $175. cougar , $700 to $1400. Lynx, around $500. wolvering, close to $1000. and this is just a few of their entries. Find them online if interested.”” *******
Those are tanned hide prices, but still a lot has changed since I was a Trapper ... (Dried, not Tanned Prices) Skunk was avg $3.40, Otter avg $60.00, Beaver $30.00 to $65.00 (lot of size and quality variations in Beaver), Muskrat avg $1.50, Nutria avg $1.75, Raccoon avg $3.75, couldn’t even sell a Coyote (only skinned one, took me an hour and I can do a Muskrat in 15 seconds, Beaver in about 10 minutes) hell even a Possum was worth $.75 (to them/ not to me they are a pain to dry)... did get a Mountain Lion once but kept it. Lost a Wolverine but was really impressed by the damage that feller did gettin away.
Our Bread and Butter Trapping was Muskrat, Nutria and Beaver because they were easy easy easy and there were lots of them.
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Might be fun for you to go to their web site as the three animals you mentioned are listed in there also. I’ve bought otter pelts, case skinned as my tribe made arrow quivers out the them and Fishers. Also have gotten Bear fangs from them as I carve them into salmon and make necklaces out of them. Never bought bear claws as I have about a hundred already but they do have them. Mostly I make great art out of deer and elk antlers. Necklaces, belt buckles, knife handles etc. Aloha from Maui