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Post by MoBuckChaser on May 15, 2021 13:41:15 GMT -6
Well it’s that time of year again. Dirty bastards build a damn in the same spot in this ditch every year. And every year I shoot or trap a couple of them. Daughter helped me remove it this year. Man this sucks.   |
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Post by biglakebass on May 15, 2021 15:13:25 GMT -6
Tannerite it.  |
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Post by Sandbur on May 15, 2021 19:34:27 GMT -6
I know a farmer who was close to town and he blew a beaver dam with dynamite. The warden stopped and said, ‘You sure did a good job of blowing that dam’. Farmer replied, ‘Yup, I sure did.’
Then the warden wrote the ticket. I guess BATF wasn’t too impressed either. Old, old story.
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Post by smsmith on May 15, 2021 19:46:41 GMT -6
Beavers moved into the environmental lake that forms my west property boundary last fall. Now that I'm getting close to being caught up on spring work, I'm almost ready to spend a few afternoons with a sixer of PBR and Dad's .22 in a lawn chair.
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Post by nhmountains on May 15, 2021 20:04:31 GMT -6
Would it be more effective to make a small hole in the dam do they cone out to fix it and then put the rifle to work? Then finish off the dam? I’d read years ago that was more effective then making the larger holes in tge dam.
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Post by kooch on May 15, 2021 20:13:27 GMT -6
Would it be more effective to make a small hole in the dam do they cone out to fix it and then put the rifle to work? Then finish off the dam? I’d read years ago that was more effective then making the larger holes in tge dam. This is how I was taught to do it. They guy that owned the land I used to hunt even had a ladder stand ~100 yards away with a clear view. |
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Post by wklman on May 15, 2021 23:11:00 GMT -6
I've got some on the new place and will be having my cousin help me trap them. Damn things are destroying every tree around the lake.
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Post by nhmountains on May 16, 2021 2:00:40 GMT -6
Many years ago my brother and I were hunting in the National Forest. We headed into an area before daylight for the first day of the season. My brother went to his stand but, couldn’t get to it the way he’d gone in the past. The beavers had dammed up a stream and there was a pond in the area where the trail used to be. They’d cut a huge amount of the trees on a short amount of time to build that dam and lodge. Large oaks and maples. They didn’t care. I haven’t been back into that area in 15 years so I wonder what it looks like now.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on May 16, 2021 4:46:09 GMT -6
Beavers moved into the environmental lake that forms my west property boundary last fall. Now that I'm getting close to being caught up on spring work, I'm almost ready to spend a few afternoons with a sixer of PBR and Dad's .22 in a lawn chair. We use a 17 with a scope on it. But my daughter missed last night and now the damn thing is educated and will be hard to get. |
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