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Joe---what kind of varmint is making my life miserable?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1296348" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Bball, I hate the things with a passion. Our land is so flat all they have to do is throw up a 3' dam and they've flooded a couple hundred acres of bottomland hardwoods which will die if the water isn't taken off them before summer.</p><p></p><p>My understanding is they travel upstream when they spread so from Greybeard's photo it looks like they are coming from the National Forest land and I'm sure they are tickled pink they have them so his problem will probably continue like mine has. And its a job to trap especially when you have other chores to do.</p><p></p><p>Seeing one dead in the trap does give you a warm feeling. But what really gives me a warm feeling is finding one trapped in a snare and with the fight still in him and I get to dispatch the trouble maker.</p><p></p><p>Here is a funnel setup I put in a run with a snare. I could have used a conibear but either works well in this situation. If you look close you can see I took some hardware wire and rigged it to hold the snare in place. The snare was open about 10" and the bottom of the snare was set about 3" underwater. I then breached the dam just behind this funnel. I like to do this right before a rain because it seems they check their dams more often after a rain.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s102.photobucket.com/user/jogeephus/media/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0064_zps6b6a15e8.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0064_zps6b6a15e8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>I got some rain that afternoon and the next morning this fella was in the snare. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://s102.photobucket.com/user/jogeephus/media/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0060_zpscaebfac9.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0060_zpscaebfac9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Greybeard, another thing worth mentioning is I think you said you got on one of their piles and you saw one looking at you. If you got this close to one then you were too close. Had there been some pups in the den there is a good chance she would have eaten your lunch with these teeth. I think last year some guy was killed by one from a bite in the leg after it cut his artery.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s102.photobucket.com/user/jogeephus/media/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0065_zpsa71b8630.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0065_zpsa71b8630.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1296348, member: 4362"] Bball, I hate the things with a passion. Our land is so flat all they have to do is throw up a 3' dam and they've flooded a couple hundred acres of bottomland hardwoods which will die if the water isn't taken off them before summer. My understanding is they travel upstream when they spread so from Greybeard's photo it looks like they are coming from the National Forest land and I'm sure they are tickled pink they have them so his problem will probably continue like mine has. And its a job to trap especially when you have other chores to do. Seeing one dead in the trap does give you a warm feeling. But what really gives me a warm feeling is finding one trapped in a snare and with the fight still in him and I get to dispatch the trouble maker. Here is a funnel setup I put in a run with a snare. I could have used a conibear but either works well in this situation. If you look close you can see I took some hardware wire and rigged it to hold the snare in place. The snare was open about 10" and the bottom of the snare was set about 3" underwater. I then breached the dam just behind this funnel. I like to do this right before a rain because it seems they check their dams more often after a rain. [url=http://s102.photobucket.com/user/jogeephus/media/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0064_zps6b6a15e8.jpg.html][img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0064_zps6b6a15e8.jpg[/img][/url] I got some rain that afternoon and the next morning this fella was in the snare. [url=http://s102.photobucket.com/user/jogeephus/media/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0060_zpscaebfac9.jpg.html][img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0060_zpscaebfac9.jpg[/img][/url] Greybeard, another thing worth mentioning is I think you said you got on one of their piles and you saw one looking at you. If you got this close to one then you were too close. Had there been some pups in the den there is a good chance she would have eaten your lunch with these teeth. I think last year some guy was killed by one from a bite in the leg after it cut his artery. [url=http://s102.photobucket.com/user/jogeephus/media/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0065_zpsa71b8630.jpg.html][img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Wildlife/Beavers/NCM_0065_zpsa71b8630.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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