Calling beaver
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03/20/20 04:24 PM
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Was talking to our local Fish & Game biologist today and he was telling me that he has learned to mew like a beaver and that it seems to excite quite a response form them. Mewing in and around bank dens and they often swim out to his boat.
Anybody done this? I'm thinking maybe Foxpro can add a beaver recording to their menu. LOL
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Calling beaver
[Re: beaverpeeler]
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03/20/20 04:38 PM
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Seen a article years a back a guy said if he dumped large rocks in a creek the beaver would think another beaver was slapping it’s tail and come out to see what was going on. Never tried it for hunting them to busy trapping.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
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Re: Calling beaver
[Re: beaverpeeler]
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They answer nicely to a stick of black cherry wood..wotha strip of bark removed
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Re: Calling beaver
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03/20/20 07:47 PM
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Is it legal to shoot beaver anywhere? It is not in Nebraska. Where I fish in Wyoming on the Platte River the beaver will come up to me just out of curiosity and because I'm invading their territory.
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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Re: Calling beaver
[Re: Gary Benson]
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03/21/20 10:56 AM
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Is it legal to shoot beaver anywhere? It is not in Nebraska. Where I fish in Wyoming on the Platte River the beaver will come up to me just out of curiosity and because I'm invading their territory. Yep here in SD it’s common in the spring thaw on some rivers and for ADC.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Calling beaver
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03/21/20 11:10 AM
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I might try beaverpeeler's "mewing" (may have to google for the proper sound). Walking in with a 10/22 and o traps or snares sounds like even less work. But I wonder what the success rate is...?
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: Calling beaver
[Re: Zim]
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03/21/20 11:37 AM
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There was a nice little book out there written by Martin Hunter and published by Harding called "Canadian Wilds". It tells of his life working for the Hudson Bay Company from the 1860's to 1900 or so in Canada. There are many chapters in there describing how natives hunted and trapped beaver and other critters, along with his perspective of life then. Nice read, 270 pages or so.
Zim Thanks for the reference Zim. I'm going to have to see if I can find that book.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Calling beaver
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03/21/20 02:04 PM
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Is it legal to shoot beaver anywhere? It is not in Nebraska. Where I fish in Wyoming on the Platte River the beaver will come up to me just out of curiosity and because I'm invading their territory. Shooting beavers that you don't like having around is the method Colorado Parks and Wildlife recommends to landowners since 1996 when trapping was banned. No requirement to try to salvage anything from them. Kill them and waste them is what the anti's/environmentalist types accomplished in Colorado, that runs contrary to the North American Model of wildlife management that suggests a proactive trapping season where the animal is at least utilised in some manner. Kind of like killing elk or deer to reduce the populations and not being legal to eat them.
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52Carl- I take it you probably live in the tidewater part of VA. Just wondering how far north in Virginia the nutes have gone...?
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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