Hope things have turned around at Alpha. I always got a good product back from them but it was always a struggle to get Gary to take in my hides. Told me in September one year that I shouldn't bother getting the two brown bears my dad and I killed tanned because they weren't prime? Who cares, we weren't selling them and weren't arguing prices or anything.
My wife took the hide from her first caribou to have it tanned for a throw and he literally told her she was crazy because caribou hides weren't worth anything.
I took him a blackbear skin on May 23rd that I'd shot on the 21st. He said it was much too late in the year and the hide wasn't any good even though it has 5" hair thick as sheep's wool?
Every time I talked him into doing it but it was like pulling teeth to get him to take them, even with money up front
