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re: Got a few new toys (trapping)

Posted on 3/6/15 at 9:17 am to
Posted by Tigerfan53
Death Valley
Member since Nov 2010
3112 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 9:17 am to
I'm ignorant to this, what do you trap beavers for?
Posted by lsueric25
not in br
Member since Sep 2008
515 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 9:29 am to
I trap them for daming my spillway up which could cause me to lose my pond. Back in the 80s we could get good money for the pelt. We would cash out for 500 dollars or more a week for yotes, fox, the occasional mink, racoon, bobcat, and the crappy day when you had a skunk spray you. We used mostly ankle traps it wouldn't ruin the coat. Also dispatching them a long steel pipe to the head or a 22.
This post was edited on 3/6/15 at 9:48 am
Posted by ZacAttack
The Land Mass
Member since Oct 2012
6416 posts
Posted on 3/6/15 at 1:06 pm to
Yep, It doesn't take long for a beaver dam to ruin property, flooding agriculture fields, flooding timber, and cutting down trees beavers are pretty industrious you would be surprised at how much young timber they can cut down. The pond I caught those two out of you almost can't walk around it for all the cypress stumps that are about 6 inches high where they've cut the trees down.
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