Doug B.
Senior Member
This week has definitely been a little different for me. My buddy wanted me to come trap some beavers on his farm so he could tear out the dams on the creek. His farm is in Banks county almost an hour from me. So, I went Tuesday morning after the rain Monday. I will get back to that later.
I also went and remade some coyote sets on NF that I had tripped before the rain Valentine's weekend. My wife works at the flower shop (florist) so I always help them on Valentine's and can't check my traps.
Anyhow, I remade coyote traps Tuesday. I didn't have anything in them Wednesday. Thursday I had this gal.
And this guy.
Now if you notice, this guy only has three legs.
I caught one last year with a foot missing. Then this one with a complete leg missing. I have no clue what happened. I want to guess maybe it was shot off, but I have no way of knowing.
Then this morning I have this guy.
I had this one by the back foot. As I was walking to it, he was just stretched out. I thought he was dead. I thought somebody had already shot him although I didn't see any sign of anybody else being in there. As I got close to him, suddenly he jumped up and started bouncing like they do when you normally walk up on them.
Oh, the beavers! On the first check I had three!
One in a connibears and two on castor mound drowning rods.
No more sign. No more beavers. I made dam breaks, nothing has repaired them for two days. I'm kinda surprised and disappointed that there wasn't more of them.
I also went and remade some coyote sets on NF that I had tripped before the rain Valentine's weekend. My wife works at the flower shop (florist) so I always help them on Valentine's and can't check my traps.
Anyhow, I remade coyote traps Tuesday. I didn't have anything in them Wednesday. Thursday I had this gal.
And this guy.
Now if you notice, this guy only has three legs.
I caught one last year with a foot missing. Then this one with a complete leg missing. I have no clue what happened. I want to guess maybe it was shot off, but I have no way of knowing.
Then this morning I have this guy.
I had this one by the back foot. As I was walking to it, he was just stretched out. I thought he was dead. I thought somebody had already shot him although I didn't see any sign of anybody else being in there. As I got close to him, suddenly he jumped up and started bouncing like they do when you normally walk up on them.
Oh, the beavers! On the first check I had three!
One in a connibears and two on castor mound drowning rods.
No more sign. No more beavers. I made dam breaks, nothing has repaired them for two days. I'm kinda surprised and disappointed that there wasn't more of them.
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