Beaver trip

The brother and I took a beaver trapping trip this fall thought you all might enjoy the pictures. Caught 154 the wolves ate 4 that were alive in snares on the shoreline caught them all in 5 nights in northern Minnesota

That makes my back hurt. That's the way to stack them up.

Awesome catch!

Impressive

Wow incredible lots work there

That is some impressive numbers and a lot of hard work.

Got a buyer lined up….? Nice Haul….no need to go to the gym this week

How many traps did you have out to average 30 beavers a day?

nice work guys

Sold them on the way home on the carcass no way I was going to start putting them all up!

X2! Way to go!

We had 3 doz mb750s out each day about 3 doz 330s and probably a couple doz snares the ice was causing trouble with the snares and 750s the last couple nights

Nice work. Those all black ones should be worth a lot more $. Lots of castor in there too.

It's potential catches like this that keep Mn. closed to non-residents I bet.

Nice!

I take it you guys sold them with the castor intact? Very impressive haul!

Yes the buyer we sold to pays best if you sell him the whole beaver cuz he gets the castor pelt skull and meat for his ranch mink and fox

That’s great! Well done!

Were you running a river?

Nice job! Lots of work in a week, but it probably paid well.

Holy cow!!! Saved some tree’s for sure!

Impressive
Probably 25-35 pounds of castor
It would be nice if you had a bounty on tails. We get from $15-30 depending on the zone their caught in
Great that you could sell them in one place

Wow, that's very impressive. Congratulations for sure!

Great haul,hope you got paid well,lots of money there castor and fur.
That is a weeks work there to skin and board that many.

So….did the buyer come and get them….or you had to load a Flat Bed with 3 tons of beaver ?

Congratulations

Awesome guys, a lot of hard work in that pile! I'm sure a catch to remember.

that's a great week, for sure, I've got to ask how much you got $

Only trappers would work that hard and call it fun! Nicely done.

Guess you will re-pac those wheel bearings before next fall if you carried all that weight 150 X 30= just over two tons
Looks like the water levels were down in the lakes you were on.

Thanks for sharing your trips work

We split them up between two half ton trucks and a 14 foot trailer. The frame on my old rusty trapping truck ended up bending on the ride to the buyer haha

Sold them all whole 10 bucks each big ones or little ones it didn’t matter

If I might ask, where in Northern MN were you guys? (County/general area)

Dang man that's a pile o' Plew.

Yes water levels were way down after the dry summer we had it amazed me that some of these beaver were going to winter in the ponds with what little water they had. The low water made it possible to set channels and deep runs with conibears that you normally wouldn’t be able to. The low water really limited the beavers travel routs

I can answer that question.
just north of the Iowa boarder.and south of my 49th

Nice job! Very impressive pile.

Oh man, what an awesome trapping trip..and you got paid!

And no skinning, that would be a lot of work for days at my speed. Great job and thanks for showing us your catch......jk

Way cool!! Thanks for sharing!!

I was thinking 40 pound average…for 3 tons…lol

What a Beautiful pile!

Very impressive and that’s awesome you got to spend that time with your brother. Making memories that will last a lifetime.

Fantastic job guys. Great pics!

That's a lot of work just to move those things around just to stack and load them never mind setting for them and taking them out of traps and hauling them out of where you caught them. Congratulations on having a great work ethic and being way more ambitious than I am.

Great pictures of your adventure!

At ten bucks You would have made more and saved your trucks by just taking the castor.

I understand.

There is even one guy in Minnesota that understands:

"Trappers are poor businessmen. Provide a service for free and then lose money on the back end selling them so someone else can profit off of our free labor."

I am glad to see that they took the extra effort to get more of the beaver utilized. It wouldn’t reflect on trappers very well to leave prime beaver laying around minus their castor. In fact it might be considered wanton waste in some states.

Thumbs Up Guys!!!

I hear you on that one but I have a good relationship with this fur buyer and if he can use the whole beaver I will bring him the whole thing. I also like to see him make some money so he stays in business gotta keep those country buyers around.

If he is a smart buyer, he should make $20 minimum on each beaver. Good Job keeping him in business.

Wow what a catch. That's some impressive work you guys did. Glad to hear you were happy with the outcome and enjoyed that trip.

Great run !

You guys are dedicated beaver trappers, that's for sure. Great job!

Nessy maybe next year we can get Trapstickman to help weigh them beaver as they come in
further along in the pile was the 3-4 inch tails

Sure hope you took some pictures of the tails for Pauls flattail contest - cuase with all those 8 to9 inch tails you would have taken down the Top 10 spots
Everybody better concede and just have Paul send out the prize now- before the postal rates go up 1 Jan

He would need some help since he has hurt his back handling some big ones in the past

Forgot all about the beaver tail contest! Never measured a single tail haha there’s probably a winner in the pile somewhere. maybe next time!

I would say your buyer did well for himself. Congratulations to him!



(BTW, not to diminish a thing about your feat, and you guys still may a good payday for the amount of time you spent at it and the fun and memories made).

They just bought your castor,you donated the skins and meat..

That's what I was thinking ^^^

I was figuring 8.00 per head....that's what they would pay around here..

I would sell carcass beaver at $10 all day to avoid skinning 154 beaver.

What was Goldys one day check record a couple years ago...all by himself .?

Trapper Les....would have all them done in no time ..lol

Not that much work unless you stockpile them like that.

Awesome adventure. Thanks for sharing

Really, at times the trapping is more work than the skinning and they didn't avoid that.

Make? As in net?

Not in a million years.

Well maybe if he tans them.

Gross. He spent $10. He has at least a $10 hide ( hatter ) $10 worth of castor and at least a $10 carcass. Any DK-XDK HVY LG and above not damaged he could probably put up and sell for between 20 and $35 at FHA. ( With the snare damage, handling damage, green belly, and trapping too early probably only a few) I didn't say he was a smart buyer, but if he has a beaver meat market. then he is.

Tails are worth $50-$75 alone here for a select few people and their buddies get $20.

If the buyer needs meat to feed mink and fox there was quite a lot of value in just the raw carcass. Plus if a guy has the right connections there are heads, tails and oil sacs all bringing in extra money besides the obvious pelt and castor money. I averaged just under $8 last year (pelts) with about that amount of beaver at FHA. But when I add in the other things I was pushing $30 for an overall average.
(When you sell some carcasses... and use others for your own bobcat line it is hard to say exactly what the total carcass value was).

Yes you can break down the carcasses and part them out but sometimes your time is worth more. That's a lot of work even for two young men and it was there .decision to make. Congrats on a job well done!

If you averaged just under $8 the buyers were paying over $11. There is the 8.2% hammer price buyer commission and the $3 per beaver handling fee.

From a thread showing someones fall adventure, to a whole bunch of armchair quarterbacks directing.
Shake your heads guys

There should be a new title under some
Trapper
replaced by
Should have-Could Have- Would Have

You're seeing it wrong. I'm pointing out how he is keeping his furbuyer in business. His goal.

Well then discuss it on another thread.
Dirt you are always right
Boco is always wrong
and Walleyed is never going to win the war of 1812

You guys did great in an area with a lot of beaver. The Foothills and Pillsbury have good numbers too and not much pressure these days. And they're closer. At $10 a head in the round, I'd take that any day! Good choice IMHO.

There is a ton of MN beaver trappers that do that every spring. Catch a bunch fast and get rid of them fast.10-12 bucks apiece. Very smart way of doing business in my opinion. BTW Great catch you guys!

I can understand everyone’s opinions! But hey everyone’s situation is different. The brother and I had taken this week to catch as many as we could. I had a wife and kid waiting for me to get home and I had 5 pigs to get into the butcher the day I got home and I went on call for work that next Monday so there was no time for me to mess with those beaver. We would have gone and caught that many beaver for 5 bucks apiece. These days it’s more about the memories and time together up in the woods than a fur check.

“154 in 5 nights” = 30 beaver a day!
You haul those home in a trailer. Dump truck, or what.

From page two.


"We split them up between two half ton trucks and a 14 foot trailer. The frame on my old rusty trapping truck ended up bending on the ride to the buyer haha"

sorry didnt read the whole thing

That's the way to have fun....I'd rather be catching too

I've spent my whole career as a beaver trapper forced by necessity to extract as much $$$ as possible from my catch, hence my earlier posts. But kudos to you and your brother and your explanation (although unnecessary) makes wonderful sense and you've every right to feel great about a feat that few have duplicated. Including myself.

Holy crap dude. That's crazy. Have fun putting them up.

Where's the pic of all your Otter?
With that many beaver and setting channels and runs you should have about 20 otter.

I will nominate Tyler D for the Tman of the Year award! Great job man.

Limits

No pics…they are sleeping in the freezah

There’s a New Sheriff in town !

Only two otter the whole trip. They are laying on the step in front by the coon and two rats. I figured we would have limited out we can trap 4 apiece in Minnesota. I had two 280s sitting in a grassy creek all week long and they were never touched the two otter we got were in snares one on a dam cross over and the other in a slide going up on the bank

You guys are some real tree huggers good haul.

i tip my hat to you and your brother,thanks for the story and great picture. Merry Christmas.

Your photo is certainly worth a lot, especially in the far future reminiscing.
Congratulations on a great success.

Ttt

Great job guys!

Great work, Great pictures !