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TimCNY 
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 Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 4:42pm |
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Snaring and trapping really are the preferred way to go. Best is to use foot hold traps and a drowning wire out into deep water, secure both ends (on land and in water) well; other best is to use 330 body grips. Very humane and no need to shoot them with either method.
I trap, have been since 1968. Fur prices are lower than whale poop these days. The value in beaver pelts - tanked. Guys sell by the pound now, the fur is the only part used and is for making felt hats. The leather - I don't know what they do with it but it's considered a by-product. Maybe rawhide chew toys for dogs.
The real value of the animal today is the castoreum and oil sacs, by the pound they bring a LOT when prepared properly.
Hopefully your using the pelts and the castoreum/oil sacs, and - all adolescent kidding aside - beaver, THE RODENT, meat IS excellent table fare.
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cabinhollow
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 4:18pm |
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"What do any of y’all that have shot beavers use?"
if you are not shooting blanks , you may want to put a cover on the barrel.
Otherwise it can get very costly.
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ac fleet
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 2:24pm |
Depending on how far away they are!--ole 12ga long barrel, with 3"magnum bb loads will reach out a long ways! --- If way across the pond, I always used the 30-30, never had one get away! ----sure do miss that pond! I used to trap them in a creek we had at one time with conibear #330's, ends things real quick with them!
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 1:44pm |
No, absolutely NO comment! No way, no how am I touching that one!!!!!!
Dave and Lou, your minds are in the gutter!
Edited by Hubert (Ga)engine7 - 08 Dec 2019 at 1:49pm
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john(MI)
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 1:41pm |
I think beaver is very tasty!
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marion
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 1:36pm |
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Beavers in this neck of the woods are protected,
If you have one move in on you they are very hard to get rid of, especially if they nest and birth offspring. They are cute and cuddly when young, but soon grow in to viscous territorial eating machines. They can be very destructive and costly to have removed. There have been a lot of documented cases of people abandoning all worldly possessions and leaving after fruitless efforts to get one to leave.
I can vouch for the cost of damages left in the wake of one leaving one den and setting up residence elsewhere. Since they are protected here, it seems to be common practice that they remove everything from past den and take it to new den, and sometimes the state lets previous owners of dens pay for both dens. it seems the best repellant to keep them off property is the leftover scent of an old one that has been nesting, or perhaps the visual signs of an empty den with all former furnishings removed
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LouSWPA
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:59am |
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nope....nope….wouldn't be prudent!
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LouSWPA
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:58am |
 Clay wrote:
I have a friend of mine who traps. He traps mostly bob cats on our place. He has trapped beavers here and other places too. The beavers we have are not a problem in our creek. Some years back, he was shipping the beaver pelts to somewhere near the Canadian border where they were shaved and plucked. He than took the beaver and had them made into teddy bears. I gave on to my girlfriend and she was thrilled. There is nothing as sinfully soft as as shaved beaver teddy bear. |
No way, no how am I touching that one!!!!!!
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I am still confident of this;
I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27
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Clay
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 9:54am |
I have a friend of mine who traps. He traps mostly bob cats on our place. He has trapped beavers here and other places too. The beavers we have are not a problem in our creek. Some years back, he was shipping the beaver pelts to somewhere near the Canadian border where they were shaved and plucked. He than took the beaver and had them made into teddy bears. I gave on to my girlfriend and she was thrilled. There is nothing as sinfully soft as as shaved beaver teddy bear.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 5:31am |
Some crazy Canuck (no, not me) figured out hw to get Beavers to build dams where HE wanted them,even a TV program about it. He saw tht beaver's buid dams to stop the running NOISEY water,so he took a walkman,taped to a post,plyed rushing waters and yup they built the dam THERE. Last time I help get rid of beaver dams I used 3 bundles of 5 yellow sticks and cord....they've never been back.
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DiyDave
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Posted: 08 Dec 2019 at 5:08am |
Red Bank wrote:
Having a pond means every year usually around this time of year I get the pleasure of a beaver or two finding their way upstream to my pond. Considering the spillway runs under the only road into the farm I take pond maintenance seriously which includes making sure the beavers don’t dam the spillway up. Over the years I would go down to the pond late in the day and wait for the beaver to come out for a swim. We have tried every firearm we have and what usually works is a .30-.30
Or a .270. Couple of years ago I shot 38 times at one over the course of two months and finally got some snare traps and strung them up across the entrance to the spillway. I have had success with the snares but I shot one tonight in the snare with a .357 and it amazed me that two body shots did nothing and then it took two head shots to kill it. I usually use a .45 to kill in the snare but I decided to take the 6” .357 to do the deed. What do any of y’all that have shot beavers use? |
No, absolutely NO comment! 
Edited by DiyDave - 08 Dec 2019 at 5:09am
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shameless dude
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Posted: 07 Dec 2019 at 11:31pm |
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I have the game commission transplant beavers to my place. they keep my pastures clean of brush and trees, and the work they do educates area children and some adults.
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Red Bank
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Posted: 07 Dec 2019 at 8:59pm |
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Having a pond means every year usually around this time of year I get the pleasure of a beaver or two finding their way upstream to my pond. Considering the spillway runs under the only road into the farm I take pond maintenance seriously which includes making sure the beavers don’t dam the spillway up. Over the years I would go down to the pond late in the day and wait for the beaver to come out for a swim. We have tried every firearm we have and what usually works is a .30-.30
Or a .270. Couple of years ago I shot 38 times at one over the course of two months and finally got some snare traps and strung them up across the entrance to the spillway. I have had success with the snares but I shot one tonight in the snare with a .357 and it amazed me that two body shots did nothing and then it took two head shots to kill it. I usually use a .45 to kill in the snare but I decided to take the 6” .357 to do the deed. What do any of y’all that have shot beavers use?
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