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beaverpeeler![]() trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 12,290 Oregon | than us trappers do. I am convinced of that fact where there are to be found large transient beaver populations. I wish the do-gooders would see that these sweet gentle rodents do indeed tear the crap out of each other when they're overcrowded. You could roll a softball through the hole in this males shoulder. Last edited by beaverpeeler; Yesterday at 01:14 AM. My fear of moving stairs is escalating! |
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Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 708 Vernal, Utah, USA Dan Barnhurst ![]() trapper | |
Dan Barnhurst![]() trapper Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 708 Vernal, Utah, USA | Yes, they are vicious with intruders. United we stand. |
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Turtledale![]() trapper Joined: Mar 2020 Posts: 8,759 W NY | I wish we had numbers of beaver like that. I'd be doing my part NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers |
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Jtrapper![]() trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 21,858 Alabama (Bama for short) 108 y... | Our river's here are like that, no one ever traps them, castor mounds waist high and may be 7-10 in a row side by side. I don't know how many people have asked me to relocate them to the river where they won't hurt anything and having to explain what happens when a strange beaver enter's another family of beaver's area. Some of the nasty infected wounds ive seen you wonder how they survive it. Not my circus, not my clowns. |
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ABeardedTrapper![]() trapper A Joined: Dec 2018 Posts: 1,223 Swords Creek, VA | Same thing here, I catch lots with multiple bite marks. Eric |
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Yukon John![]() trapper Joined: Jan 2020 Posts: 5,666 Aliceville, Kansas 44 | That is nasty! Act like a blank, get treated like a blank. Insert your own blank! |
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coondagger2![]() "Brat" C Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 2,312 NC - Here there and everywhere | That is a FHA hatter beaver if I've ever seen one! Gotta live up to the nickname... |
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Trapset![]() trapper T Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 5,140 Nebraska | By the looks of that scar, he was on the mend. During drought years here, the beaver are forced to the river. Lots of scaring, fighting, year round castor mounds marking territory. Rough way to live, or die fer sure. |
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ack![]() trapper Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 4,188 Ohio, Old fart to some. | I know what you are saying and i totally agree. I get severalevery year in ohio and Arkansas. _________ I used to have superpowers but a therapist took them away. The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas! |
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Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,147 Ames, IA MikeTraps2 ![]() trapper | |
MikeTraps2![]() trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,147 Ames, IA | Ack I only ever caught one beaver that looked like that, caught in a bank feed hole in a 330, before I learned to add wire to 330s to float out and past the hole so that doesn't happen Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure Theodore Roosevelt |
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Bob Jameson![]() trapper B Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 7,929 SW Pa | I remember the first year I worked with the Arkansas Game and Fish Dept.. I floated my first trip down the Petit Jean River for a recon with a warden. I asked what those big ant hill mounds were up on the bank were about. He said those were castor mounds. Some were near 3 feet tall. Had to be some mighty large beaver to reach up that high to develop those mounds. Never saw so many bit up beaver, cysts and healing scars in my life. |
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Trapper7![]() trapper T Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 16,902 MN, Land of 10,000 Lakes | Originally Posted by ABeardedTrapper Same thing here, I catch lots with multiple bite marks. Eric Here too, especially in spring. With the US so divided, I'm just glad to be on the side that believes in God, has the most guns, and knows which restroom to use. |
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Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 67,117 Minnesota 330-Trapper ![]() ![]() trapper | |
330-Trapper![]() ![]() trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 67,117 Minnesota | My largest beaver, a female- baren was bit up bad Spring 70# NRA and NTA Life Member |
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Boco![]() trapper B Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 47,651 james bay frontierOnt. | I see a lot of scarred up beaver when doing nuisance work. Last edited by Boco; Yesterday at 11:46 AM. Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life. |
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Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 12,290 Oregon beaverpeeler ![]() trapper | |
beaverpeeler![]() trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 12,290 Oregon | I know that beaver have a great capacity to recover from their wounds but I have found beaver that died too all covered with putrid bites.. Deer hunting one time I stopped to take a leak and in mid-stream I happened to notice that in the brush right beside me was a big beaver that was so badly bit up and infected that he was wobbly on his feet. Wasn't going to survive, put it down with my deer rifle. My fear of moving stairs is escalating! |
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Brooktrout906![]() trapper B Joined: Aug 2023 Posts: 96 Michigan | During dry years the pond beaver will be forced to migrate towards the rivers. Open warfare |
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Nessmuck![]() trapper N Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 25,323 New Hampshire | Originally Posted by Jtrapper Our river's here are like that, no one ever traps them, castor mounds waist high and may be 7-10 in a row side by side. I don't know how many people have asked me to relocate them to the river where they won't hurt anything and having to explain what happens when a strange beaver enter's another family of beaver's area. Some of the nasty infected wounds ive seen you wonder how they survive it. Jtrap...need some pics of those scent mounds !!! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. |
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