Jack Ryan
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LOL, I made a hanging bucket feeder one time years and years ago all the way back when game cameras were a "new thing". First one, then two, then with in a week it was looking like a flash mob robbing a liquor store in every frame. Half a dozen coons on the ground and batting the bar that knocked more out and a couple up on top of the bucket doing their best imitation of Keith Richards swinging in a chandelier trying to knock the whole thing down.They eat my feeder corn which doesn't bother me all THAT much. But, when I started raising chickens and had 'em reaching into the chicken wire to rip the head off a chicken, I went on the warpath. I have better wire now, "hardware cloth", but haven't attempted to raise anymore for other reasons than the danged 'coons, but they really ARE a pain. They also got to climbing my feeder and tearing up the spinner plate for the corn. I went to a hanging feeder set on a tree limb pretty high and with a rope/block and tackle, seems to keep 'em away from the feeder.
We have no fur buyers and even if we did they wouldn't buy outside the fur season, essentially winter. We used to have a buyer in Hallettsville, but they're long gone. So, fleshing/tanning and shipping seems the only option. I've never preserved a fur beyond skinning and rolling up and tossing in the freezer and it just seems like a pain to do when you probably wouldn't even pay for the shipping.