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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1820064" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Yep, and do a pretty good job in river too. Over in East Texas, both beaver and otters are predominanlty borers or tunnelers. That is, they don't build many big lodges, they burrow up in the side of an embankment and hollow out several 'rooms'. Not fun driving a tractor along in 3rd gear and a front wheel/tire fall thru the roof of one of their tunnels. Nearly threw me over the hood one day bush hogging. I had a crossing over one of the ponds about 50' long and just wide enough to drive a truck or tractor over. Beaver tunneled under it in 2-3 places and if I wasn't dropping off in one with tractor or pickup, the cows were running a hoof thru one. Just plain lucky I didn't end up with any lame cows.</p><p></p><p>I never trapped any for $$ or sport. It was a necessity. Even tho their burrows were a huge pain in the butt, I maybe would have left 'em be if they would have just eaten Chinese Tallow but they felled everything else BUT tallow. After they got rid of all the gum and pine near the ponds, they lived off lily pad rhizomes. cellulose is cellulose... </p><p></p><p>I didn't know what a conibear was till I went by a littl local gunshop back around 2011 and asked if he had any spring traps. No, but he drug out a big cardboard box with 4 dusty 330 conibear traps. Had to learn all about them but my son came over from La with a jar of castor and the tool to set the traps with. </p><p>Never underestimate the power of a conibear.....</p><p></p><p>I never skinned a single one of the stinkin things but shot 3 coyotes in successive nights off the same beaver carcass I hung off a low limb on the back of my property. </p><p>Big Bird don't know how close to death he's walking. There's a conibear in the water 3' ahead tied off to that Tee post. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]35189[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Otters are acrobatic for sure, but a voracious appetite.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]35191[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Why trap beaver? because they're destructive as hades, that's why.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]35192[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1820064, member: 18945"] Yep, and do a pretty good job in river too. Over in East Texas, both beaver and otters are predominanlty borers or tunnelers. That is, they don't build many big lodges, they burrow up in the side of an embankment and hollow out several 'rooms'. Not fun driving a tractor along in 3rd gear and a front wheel/tire fall thru the roof of one of their tunnels. Nearly threw me over the hood one day bush hogging. I had a crossing over one of the ponds about 50' long and just wide enough to drive a truck or tractor over. Beaver tunneled under it in 2-3 places and if I wasn't dropping off in one with tractor or pickup, the cows were running a hoof thru one. Just plain lucky I didn't end up with any lame cows. I never trapped any for $$ or sport. It was a necessity. Even tho their burrows were a huge pain in the butt, I maybe would have left 'em be if they would have just eaten Chinese Tallow but they felled everything else BUT tallow. After they got rid of all the gum and pine near the ponds, they lived off lily pad rhizomes. cellulose is cellulose... I didn't know what a conibear was till I went by a littl local gunshop back around 2011 and asked if he had any spring traps. No, but he drug out a big cardboard box with 4 dusty 330 conibear traps. Had to learn all about them but my son came over from La with a jar of castor and the tool to set the traps with. Never underestimate the power of a conibear..... I never skinned a single one of the stinkin things but shot 3 coyotes in successive nights off the same beaver carcass I hung off a low limb on the back of my property. Big Bird don't know how close to death he's walking. There's a conibear in the water 3' ahead tied off to that Tee post. [ATTACH type="full"]35189[/ATTACH] Otters are acrobatic for sure, but a voracious appetite. [ATTACH type="full"]35191[/ATTACH] Why trap beaver? because they're destructive as hades, that's why. [ATTACH type="full"]35192[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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