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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505707
02/23/22 05:03 AM
02/23/22 05:03 AM
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Ohio, Old fart to some.
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Ohio, Old fart to some.
76 lbs. Usually one or 2 over 60 each year.
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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505712
02/23/22 05:23 AM
02/23/22 05:23 AM
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revillo, sd
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revillo, sd
In early 1966 I trapped on a backwater of the extreme upper end of Lewis and Clark Reservoir on the South Dakota-Nebraska border and caught a pair of beaver that weighed 78 and 82 pounds. I am certain that they were old and had no offspring for at least two years. The traps I used were two # 114 Newhouse with one spring removed that had been loaned to me by Dale Wade , federal trapper with the old Predator and Rodent Control Branch of the US Fish and Wildlife Service as I had no large traps of my own at that time.

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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505720
02/23/22 06:02 AM
02/23/22 06:02 AM
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Posts: 13,964
Michigan
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Michigan
72 plus a little

Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505722
02/23/22 06:06 AM
02/23/22 06:06 AM
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Posts: 493
Minnesota
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Posts: 493
Minnesota
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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505736
02/23/22 06:47 AM
02/23/22 06:47 AM
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Posts: 2,672
Ohio
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Ohio

83 pounds.
1980
Caught a bunch more, with a few 64-68 pounds.
The place had not been trapped for more than 10 years.
Ideal habitat. Not harassed by anyone. Completely restricted access.


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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505743
02/23/22 06:56 AM
02/23/22 06:56 AM
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Posts: 7,216
W NY
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Posts: 7,216
W NY
72 lbs. Caught one I believe was bigger but no scale back then


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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505757
02/23/22 07:22 AM
02/23/22 07:22 AM
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Posts: 1,514
Missouri
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Missouri
81lbs. Spring female with 6 kits in her.. Happy landowner.


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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505762
02/23/22 07:34 AM
02/23/22 07:34 AM
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Posts: 17,550
Rodney,Ohio
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Rodney,Ohio
72# is my best to date

Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505772
02/23/22 07:47 AM
02/23/22 07:47 AM

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Mark June
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1973. We lived in Genesee County, MI and the local paper's sport section had an Outdoor Columnist. He had recently written that the last beaver in our county had been trapped in the 1930's or something like that and so when I told my dad that I found a Beaver den in the bank of the river I trapped.... pops did not believe me. After all, pops has read the paper and the outdoor writer dude, who was well respected, had written the beavs in our county were extinct.

I didn't know about the paper dude.
I wasn't alive in the 1930's.
I hardly had time for school, and sports, and trapping.
But one thing I did have....
Fur-Fish- & Game!!

I sorted through back issues and read articles on how to catch beaver. I bought a bottle of beaver lure (don't remember which) at Bud Stewart, local fur buyer's shop, and set the biggest trap I owned, a #3 DLS, with some good goo on a mud mound FF&G style for that beav.

You know how tricky it is to peddle a bike with a 62# beaver dangling on the front?
About killed myself, and the beav. Well, he drowned in that crude set somehow so he was already dead.

I plopped that beaver down on the side lawn and went in to tell dad that NOW the last beaver has been killed in Genesee County, Michigan!

The outdoor writer actually came out, after pops called the paper, and took my pic (I don't have it anymore), and wrote a new article.....
Something about the great beaver migration now in effect.

Ah yes, 1973.
Dem dair days were a fun.

Blessings,
Mark

Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505783
02/23/22 08:00 AM
02/23/22 08:00 AM
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Posts: 5,641
Williamsport, Pa.
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For many years it was 58-6 on a grain scale then two years ago 60 on my back yard spring scale. Sorry no monsters. 80 pounds, I cannot even imagine such a big pig as that.....jk


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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505787
02/23/22 08:02 AM
02/23/22 08:02 AM
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NW Illinois
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NW Illinois
This is the first year I went after beavers. I caught 2 right at 60 lbs out of the 16 I caught. I caught 11 in a small creek/crick with 3 dams. smile


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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505796
02/23/22 08:09 AM
02/23/22 08:09 AM
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Posts: 14,307
Montana
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Montana
78lbs for me.


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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505801
02/23/22 08:11 AM
02/23/22 08:11 AM
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Arkansas
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Arkansas
67 lbs. but I think I caught a spring female that was bigger.


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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505803
02/23/22 08:13 AM
02/23/22 08:13 AM
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Montana
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The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle.

www.derricks-nm.com
Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505804
02/23/22 08:15 AM
02/23/22 08:15 AM

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Mark June
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Am I the only weird one, which is a very strong possibility, but I bet in my life, for the umpteen numbers of critters I've trapped, shot, snared, or otherwise laid out....
I haven't weighed five of 'em.

I have never cared how much critters weigh.
Never will I reckon.

How much that cat weigh? Idontknow
How big was he? Big
Was she the biggest you ever caught? Cantsay

I'm weird.
It's not wrong.
Just different.
I hope.

Blessings,
Mark

Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505805
02/23/22 08:16 AM
02/23/22 08:16 AM
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NW Illinois
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NW Illinois
John those tails weigh 30 lbs


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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: USMC47 🦫] #7505806
02/23/22 08:16 AM
02/23/22 08:16 AM

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Mark June
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Originally Posted by USMC47 🦫
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Priceless.
The one on the left the one who jumps in first, foremost, and all the rest?
He looks the part in this pic smile

Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505814
02/23/22 08:22 AM
02/23/22 08:22 AM
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Northern Maine
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82 pounds and stretched over 80 inches.


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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: J.Morse] #7505815
02/23/22 08:22 AM
02/23/22 08:22 AM
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Firth, Nebraska
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72 pounds. I carried that (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) thing back across a plowed corn field, swore I put it down every 15 yards or so to huff and puff, catch my breath, and reposition my grip on those big slippery feet.
I will never forget the day I caught this pig.
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My best pair was a pair of 65s, like twins. Me and a much younger gunner worked hard to haul them back to the truck too.
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Re: PB beaver weight? [Re: ] #7505829
02/23/22 08:29 AM
02/23/22 08:29 AM
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Rodney,Ohio
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Rodney,Ohio
Originally Posted by Mark June
Am I the only weird one, which is a very strong possibility, but I bet in my life, for the umpteen numbers of critters I've trapped, shot, snared, or otherwise laid out....
I haven't weighed five of 'em.

I have never cared how much critters weigh.
Never will I reckon.

How much that cat weigh? Idontknow
How big was he? Big
Was she the biggest you ever caught? Cantsay

I'm weird.
It's not wrong.
Just different.
I hope.

Blessings,
Mark



No, your definitely not weird, at least not in this instance. I started weighing critters when I got tired of the of I've got a 40# raccoon getting in my garbage and everyone has 50# coyotes running around..

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