Last 20 fox of the Year

[Kusko]

Dom
I have shot an arctic fox, but never trapped one. We don't have too many right in the area I trapped.

model 70
I fleshed them and then put them on a stretcher. Pro's use wooden boards, but I'm new and didn't know better so I bought wire stretchers. After they sit inside the house with the leather out for a day, I turn them so they are fur side out. I comb each one with a dog brush and let them sit for 5-7 days. I then give the fur, not the leather, a mild borax bath w/o water to get all of the grease out of their fur. Our fox up here in western Alaska are very greasy and my friend who lives a hundred miles away caught one that had 1.5 pounds of fat on it. After borax, I shake them out really good and put them back on the stretcher or box them up to go to the furbuyer.

skeet
I have sold 16 this year for an average of $45 per fox. My friend who lives out a hundred miles has sold 60 for an average of about $43. I expect about the same with these twenty.

Here is a picture of my daughter holding one that we caught on the line last week.