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Scotty, I thought you really liked beavers.......

For nuisance beaver in summer, we usually just break the dam a bit, put a 330 a little downstream and underwater. they always come to fix the dam at dusk and we have 'em by morning. A .22 Hornet through the top of their head can do wonders for your beaver headaches too. They're too tough to kill reliably with a .22LR or something quieter. Beavers are declared nusance animals in much of Saskatchewan. We killed 52 in one 1/2 mile stretch of stream on our land three summers ago. Didn't exterminate them either! We have eight new dams this spring, lost about twenty acres of hayfield. Our national symbol can be a pain in the behind! Good luck controlling yours.

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What do the chlorine tablets do to the beaver - just run 'em off or kill them with the chorine gas? Beavers do terrible timber damage in Arkansas. Brimfish

We had em cutting down our trees along our ponds in NM and my grandpa called the game warden. Being and old timer, he showed up with two boxes of shells and told my grandpa to "get his thirty" he did and they shot 7 or 8 beavers that day. I swear one of them was 80# or better- I could hardly haul it out of the water!

forget the beaver (there is a ton of them) and go after the martin. Prices are high. When the snow was here one of the few trappers with a snowmobile was stacking them..

I'm running 2 lines with a guy. One from the skiff and one from the road. We are doing our first set from the skiff in the morning.

I realize that this is an old thread, but this is a really funny post. I showed it to my wife and she just rolled her eyes and said Men!

Bill

Here are a couple from this fall, #3's and drowning sets. Our local watering hole is gettin' overrun by big beaver, but no pics of that, there are some things you just don't talk about.....grin

Especially with "Those Kind Of Neighbors".

The clueless many time are still he rulers,
If nothing else by MOUTH!

Beaver trapping, especially nuisance work in the summer, has to be the hardest work I've ever done. Did it full time for several years. One word of advice...keep that swamp water away from your mouth and nose. Even a drop or two splashed in you mouth can give you a case of 'beaver fever' , giardia, that, believe me, you don't want.

I do not agree or condone these attitudes or actions towards Beavers.

Just pet a beaver, or better yet, eat one instead.


Signed,

Beaver 🦫

I don't know where you are, do you get ice? I ask because I think the easiest way to eliminate large numbers is using what I have heard called the canadian snaring method see this link for a better description than I could give.

I would use a chainsaw to cut holes in the ice set the snares and come back two weeks later and rarely did a pole have zero beavers on it, many two and I did get three beavers on one pole that was a rush. I would pull the poles after two weeks as I had most of the beavers,

Where there are bear pour used peanut oil or cooking grease on dam and lodge and let the bear take care of it. They will tear it out trying to get to oil or grease.

Inside 30 yards a .22CB short broadside between the eye and the ear does the trick. With the 'puter knocked out they drown fast.
Taken many that way. Quietly.

I love the beaver.

We have to shoot them here, way to many, tree damage, roads flooded, lakes way to high.
I live in the country so I use 223 a lot. But some of my best days have been with a 22 mag, a dozen a day sometimes if I have the patience.
I have no love for these sob's, none. We are allowed to shoot em. The township thanks us too.

I like that idea, may have to try it.