Re: PB beaver weight?
[Re: J.Morse]
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02/23/22 05:23 AM
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cohunt
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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]
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02/23/22 06:47 AM
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Willy Firewood
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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.
FRAC LIVES MATTER
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Re: PB beaver weight?
[Re: J.Morse]
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02/23/22 06:56 AM
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72 lbs. Caught one I believe was bigger but no scale back then
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Re: PB beaver weight?
[Re: J.Morse]
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02/23/22 07:22 AM
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81lbs. Spring female with 6 kits in her.. Happy landowner.
Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
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Re: PB beaver weight?
[Re: J.Morse]
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02/23/22 07:47 AM
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Mark June
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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
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Re: PB beaver weight?
[Re: J.Morse]
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02/23/22 08:00 AM
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jk
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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
Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. What's supposed to be ain't always is. Hopper Hunter
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Re: PB beaver weight?
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02/23/22 08:11 AM
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J Staton
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67 lbs. but I think I caught a spring female that was bigger.
James 1: 19-20
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Re: PB beaver weight?
[Re: J.Morse]
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02/23/22 08:15 AM
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Mark June
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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
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Re: PB beaver weight?
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02/23/22 08:16 AM
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Kevin Stake
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John those tails weigh 30 lbs
It is more blessed to give than to receive
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Re: PB beaver weight?
[Re: USMC47 🦫]
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02/23/22 08:16 AM
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Mark June
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Mark June
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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
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Re: PB beaver weight?
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02/23/22 08:22 AM
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jabNE
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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. 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.
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: PB beaver weight?
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02/23/22 08:29 AM
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SNIPERBBB
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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
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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