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Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6509474
04/03/19 10:43 PM
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I’m guessing it was a Chubacabra. They are sneaky suckers.

Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6509478
04/03/19 10:50 PM
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Cougar.


there will be so many agents out there the next day someone should find something like your 330.

Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6511085
04/05/19 11:28 PM
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sound like a otter.


24coyotes,4 coon 3 grey fox,118muskrats,4 mink,6 fisher 23 beaver , 10 otter,4 bobcat
Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6511124
04/06/19 05:01 AM
04/06/19 05:01 AM
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Onaway michigan
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What brand of 330?

Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6511150
04/06/19 07:17 AM
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Man, I have had bears take off with a few beaver. Never much struggle at the site, but fifty yards away have found a half beaver and the rest hurriedly buried. Doesn't seem to matter what it's anchored to short of a solid tree.

As for otter, I have found them to be very easy to kill in a 330. In a belilse or sauvageau they often don't even get the trap off the stabilizer sticks. Even hip caught my cable is never twisted or even drawn tight on the anchor. Out of 14 otter this year all looked to be dead in seconds. And the deadest otter I ever had was in a 120 Victor set for muskrat on two little stabilizer sticks. The xxl otter was dead in the run. Looked like it had hit the trap and stopped, still on the sticks.

Obviously it could be anything, but I have never found an otter to be overly tough. A big beaver will test your equipment. Even in a brand new sauvageau have had a few neck caught twist the heck out of 3/32 cable. Looked like a quarter turn in the trap. Always dead, but i can recall two that fought like (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) for a minute or so.

Here if there is any funny business a bear is often the culprit. I had to kill a few a while back to keep from losing too much fur. Dam sets where they crossed were the worst.

Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: turkn8rtrapper] #6511162
04/06/19 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by turkn8rtrapper
Tail caught adult beaver

My thinking to!



Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6511167
04/06/19 07:53 AM
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Texas
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Well, did you ever find the trap and culprit??

Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6512069
04/07/19 10:27 AM
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Update! On day two I got up early, made two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, grabbed a Coors lite and took a 5 hour hike into the huge cattail swamp. I focused mainly on waterways. Feeder streams etc. Came out with nothing. On day three on made 3 egg and olive sandwiches,one Coors lite and started grid searching the swamp. I went over my waders 3 hours into that search,and called it. Day four. This time I grappled a Bud lite, and no sandwiches. I resumed the grid search .2 hours in found the trap. It was 1/4 mile away from the catch on dry land. There was no indication of any struggle, It hung up on the right stick and he pulled right out. I would have to believe it was a tail caught Otter being that far away from water. Anyway it work out well for all of us. It won't happen again, because I'll start with the Bud lite first. Crazy!

Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6512076
04/07/19 10:35 AM
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Every adventure has to have a BOOTER in it.

Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6512089
04/07/19 10:48 AM
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potter co. p.a.
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trap saw you were down to bud light and felt sorry for ya.

glad ya found it,you sound like me and wouldn't have rested til figured out.

also kudos to the time you put in,some wouldn't have.









Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6512115
04/07/19 11:10 AM
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I to would of been bugged until I found it.

I guess if I loose one in the future I need to become a beer drinker. Lol

Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6512150
04/07/19 11:45 AM
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4 beers to find the trap! Seems ya had a plan and it worked..I like the story glad ya found the trap. I've had couple 330s disappear found them with beaver floating once water warmed. Was happy they were in place did't get swept away by current.
Around here people say it takes 3 beers to get to Dubuque IA ! Also a local cover bands name (3 beers til Dubuque) not sure which came first?? the road trip or band name. I like how you included the beer in the story though..

Mac


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Re: Something run off with my 330 [Re: crazy Eddy] #6512191
04/07/19 12:38 PM
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Are beer not just fluid replacement for beaver trappers.

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