Beavers?
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SilentHitz
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That's a big beaver paw paw!I've never shot a beaver, but I've blown up a few. Their dam was causing the lower part of a friend's soy bean field to flood..it had to go, so beaver parts flew.
"...looked like good-sized animals..." Yep. 70 plus pounds and 4.25 feet long with the tail for a big adult. When they slap their tail on the water as an alarm signal it sounds like distant gun shot.
"...can't but help..." Socrates, it's not just you. snicker. Something about a bigger girlfriend with a smaller...no, no, no, I won't.
"...can't but help..." Socrates, it's not just you. snicker. Something about a bigger girlfriend with a smaller...no, no, no, I won't.
Frozen stiff Beavers
A few years back when I was living on the Yukon River in the interior, I was riding snowmobile (snowmachine, snowgo, you pick...) into a village and saw one of the strangest sights that I have ever seen.
It was about -20 F below and strapped to the back of a parked snowgo were two frozen stiff, skinned out beavers! Just one of the strangest visuals that I have had in my lifetime!
Try to picture two naked stiff as a board mostly pink, with a lot of frost/snow all over them, twin beavers hanging off the back of a snowgo! Still to this day I can not think about beavers with out seeing that sight.
And to the best of my knowledge, they are trapped not shot. But, I have never bothered to look it up in the regs, as I have never realistically wanted to either trap or hunt them.
I do have a very nice warm hat made from some beavers, also a nice pelt which is on the back of my office chair. Very warm! The hat only goes on when the temp drops below 0 F, otherwise my head starts to sweat.
A few years back when I was living on the Yukon River in the interior, I was riding snowmobile (snowmachine, snowgo, you pick...) into a village and saw one of the strangest sights that I have ever seen.
It was about -20 F below and strapped to the back of a parked snowgo were two frozen stiff, skinned out beavers! Just one of the strangest visuals that I have had in my lifetime!
Try to picture two naked stiff as a board mostly pink, with a lot of frost/snow all over them, twin beavers hanging off the back of a snowgo! Still to this day I can not think about beavers with out seeing that sight.
And to the best of my knowledge, they are trapped not shot. But, I have never bothered to look it up in the regs, as I have never realistically wanted to either trap or hunt them.
I do have a very nice warm hat made from some beavers, also a nice pelt which is on the back of my office chair. Very warm! The hat only goes on when the temp drops below 0 F, otherwise my head starts to sweat.
davlandrum
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One of those areas that you want to really check out the regs on. In Oregon, you need a trapping license, since they are a "fur-bearer". Beyond the license requirement, I am not sure about legal means, since I barely have time to handle my current hobbies, don't need another.