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Easiest way I have found is snaring them in their land trails. Gotta keep the pets up. As a bonus ya get the coons too.
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Thank you, sir! Looks like I have some work to do. Wish me luck, fellas! Ed
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You should be able to get a permit from the F&G dept to trap them with footholds and connibears.
I had to go down to CO and clean the beaver out of my daughters irrigation dithches and the local warden gave me permission to use traps and snares. I year later another moved in and they shot it before it had a chance to get a serious foothold and companions.
After the first shot the rest are just noise.
Make mine a Minaska
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Contact Phil and Si Robertson from Duck Dynasty LOL
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Since you live in a greenie state, your only choice is to SSS and wreck their lodges and dams.
If you breach a dam, come back to the breach in the late evening and you'll find a rather target rich environment. Once you think you've given all of them a headache, wreck the lodges. Those left behind will go elsewhere.
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Surely TX does not have that trapping restriction.
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I'am lucky in Michigan the local DNR officer gives me a permit to shoot, trap or snare 10 beaver every year. 3 years ago beavers flooded about 120 acres of my woods, it was war. Usually with are long beaver trapping season I can keep them in check.
I bust the dam mid day come back at dark and head shoot them with 22 LR. sub-sonics with a Trijicon 3-9 scope. I've shot as many as 3 in a couple minutes. The best time is a full moon little to no wind in your face, let them get close a dead beaver cannot be educated.
If you use snares 3 on a 1/2" re-rod baited with poplar. Snares cheap fast to set-up deadly.
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I'm about to declare war as soon as deer season ends. I'd LOVE to trap them, but with the dogs around I just can't do it.
I'll be spending some rifle time on the banks in the coming weeks.
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They are largely nocturnal, but I'll bet you knew that�.
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I'm about to declare war as soon as deer season ends. I'd LOVE to trap them, but with the dogs around I just can't do it.
I'll be spending some rifle time on the banks in the coming weeks. Conibears go in the water. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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330 conibears in the main run of the den works. Caster will lure them in as well. Try trapper man forums to do some research
What state are you in?
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I've trapped more than a few beavers before, it ain't new to me.
We can shoot them here so it will be something to do after deer season.
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Bust a big hole in the dam and the beavers will come out of the lodge as the water level drops. We had problems with beavers damming up a small stream that had a natural run of sockeyes, so fish and game let us rip it out. It got to the point where we were going up there 2x a week to take the dam out. Then they started building 2 dams, with basketball sized rocks in them. Once trapping season started I went up there with my boss and we caught 5 in one night. The problem went away after that.
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I was being a smart ass. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Lose your job. Every beaver will leave at that point.
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