Beaver problem ?

Trapping is the best way to remove problem beaver. Here in Northern minnesota there is not a pond or wet spot that does not have a dam and a lodge. Research trapping beaver and you will find many intersting ways to go about it. If you want to be creative you can create some snares out wire and a nut heated hot and crimped. Up nord, Ice out is the best time to shoot them. The beavers go crazy the couple days they become free. Since the beavers are problem beavers we dont care about them so we shoot them with rifles where ever. Making a hole in a dam works. Also heard of guys cutting down a tree into the water and coming back a day or so later and shooting them with shottys. Stealth is important beavers are pretty smart.
 
Maybe in PA beavers are not a nuisance but here in East Texas they are a pain in the a-- to any landowner , farmer rancher etc. Here in Texas they have to depend on large deep stock tanks for their livestock , beavers will dig large holes in these damns and then they will not hold water and everything(livestock,landowner etc.) suffers and the beavers just move on to another stock tank and start over again.
The rancher has to hire a bulldozier operator to come and put his stock tank damn back into shape and that cost him lots of money then pray for a good rain to fill up his tank again. all too time consuming just because of a nuisance Beaver and your worried about a man out on his property enjoying himself drinking a little beer and shooting a beaver!!!!! get a life. besides they make excellent targets
Navarro
 
yes i have practiced this technique many times if you want to shoot them you shouldnt have told anyone in the first place but if your gonna do it go at night with a spotlight and an amber lense, cause they hit the water fast with a white light, but they are dumb at night ide say a shotgun with buckshot and wait at the edge of the pond and let them have it or a 22 mag works real good just put one in the head or neck and the do float if you shoot them while they are in the water its just a little target
 
In Pa they ARE a nuisance, that's why we trap them. I don't care about people shooting beaver or drinking beer.....But common sense should be involved somewhere in the mix. Maybe do the drinking AFTER you're done shooting.
I don't care if i stand alone on this issue or not, drinking and shooting a gun does not mix. It's no different than drinking and driving IMO.
The second he posted he obviously knew he would catch some flack from someone.
And being that this is a public forum, I figured people would know better than to post such rubble.
I for one am not happy about the response and i stand my ground on it.
 
beaver are neat critters till they mess up. best to trap/snare them. worked an ADC job, water was backed-up in the edge of US-220. DNR & landowner wanted it dead, my choice of hardware. Saturday morn I invited 2 friends to get it. rigged a cable and block to a small tree and ripped the side of it's den out with the tk. watched it swim till the traffic cleared and shot it with the 222. it sank immediately, water was clear and fished it out with a snare on a long stick. only one i've ever shot, not counting ones in snares/traps.
 
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