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Beaver pearls #7821084
03/15/23 11:17 AM
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Oregon
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Anybody ever find anything like this? In all the years I've been trapping I don't recall ever running into this. The knife hit this "thing" embedded in the leather just like how you find a puss pocket. But this one was hard like a bullet and ensconced in the leather. Completely calcified.

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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821086
03/15/23 11:19 AM
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Interior Alaska
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Lead, puss yes but nothing like that!


I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821095
03/15/23 11:33 AM
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Maybe I'll sell it on Ebay for about the same amount of money somebody would pay for Elvis' old pocket comb.


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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821097
03/15/23 11:39 AM
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Could be a the silver tip of a lead bullet!


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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821106
03/15/23 11:51 AM
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I am curious if any other big beaver producers have seen this before. I'm somewhere over 7000 for beaver in my lifetime and I believe it's the first I've seen.

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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821107
03/15/23 11:52 AM
03/15/23 11:52 AM
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Goldsboro, North Carolina
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I've never seen anything like that.



Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821109
03/15/23 11:53 AM
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7000……. How do you even type??? My hand are numb after 4!!!! Really cool find btw!!!!


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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821112
03/15/23 11:56 AM
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How hard is it? I would assume soft if calcium. I suppose there is a slight possibility it could silica. If so you might want to have it worked into a setting on a ring.


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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821117
03/15/23 12:04 PM
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never seen or even heard of that before

Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821121
03/15/23 12:07 PM
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It is extremely hard but light weight. At some point I'll weigh it on my gram scale.


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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821129
03/15/23 12:20 PM
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[Linked Image]

This is the pelt it came out of, a nice blanket female off the Willamette river near where I live. You can see the kind of puss-pocket hole that it came out of; but there was no puss associated with it.


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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821138
03/15/23 12:28 PM
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That is a government tracking device. Now they know where you live. smile


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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821143
03/15/23 12:32 PM
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What does it taste like?


Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821147
03/15/23 12:35 PM
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Id wager that's been there for a long time, probably a year. Probably have something in the center of it if you cut it open or had it x-rayed

Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821154
03/15/23 12:55 PM
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Champaign County, Ohio.
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According to a biologist/archaeologist friend of mine, people frequently have calcifications in them like that. They find a lot of calcifications at ancient burial sites.

Keith

Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821157
03/15/23 12:58 PM
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Cool.
Here is a thought! Maybe it's a piece of clam shell or fish bone small rock? that healed into a cut. Then over time wore it round and crusted over?
Like others Ive found bird shot and 22 bullets in beaver and other critters. In deer found healed in broad heads. Never seen any thing hard was usually like scar tissue ball or puss around items.
Maybe have mineral person look at it with a loop?


Mac


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Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821160
03/15/23 01:01 PM
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Cut my foot on a beer bottle when I was in college.
Had something similar come up months later but significantly smaller.

Doc that cut it out said it was some type of foreign body that my body had calcified.

SniperBBB has the right idea

Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821161
03/15/23 01:02 PM
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Beaver are getting ready to evolve into oysters!! You found the missing link. laugh

Re: Beaver pearls [Re: Giant Sage] #7821168
03/15/23 01:21 PM
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That looks like a kidney stone from Kentucky.

Re: Beaver pearls [Re: beaverpeeler] #7821215
03/15/23 02:34 PM
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Beaver ambergris


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