Beaver trapping in Siberia

A new member of Trapperman, who is from Siberia, posted a video on the International Trappers forum of him trapping beavers there. I can't understand what he's saying, but I do recognize what he's doing.

https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/7451454/beaver-hunting#Post7451454

Just watched the video, good stuff!

Yes...much different than I had Siberia pictured!

A few thoughts I had as I watched the video:

1. If I drank a fifth of vodka an hour prior...would I understand what he's saying?
2.. Won't be long and he'll be joining our world famous 330 club
3. Won't be long and he'll have those waders filled with water
4. What is the obsession with covering his trap chain with mud all about?
5. And finally, I wish he would have showed how he removes the 330 from a trapped beaver. I would like to see if he does it by hand or with assistance of a setting device.

It was fun to watch!

The body grips are a lot bigger than we use .
Very interesting seeing a different area in the world .
Welcome to Trapperman .

2,3 and 4 here too,BP,lol.

Wish I could give him a pair of gauntlets. That’s the way I started out, barehanding everything!

I noticed the chain configuration. Reminds me of chain used on furnace dampers of older furnaces. He used a magnum body grip also. Good video of actual setting for bvr that alot of bvr trappers can associate with.

I wondered about handling the 330s that way too. Only takes once. An ice bath at best!
I was a slow learner about wading into water without pulling up my waders.

Interesting.That weak looking chain looks like a good way to have to go looking for your trap.

I never did wear gauntlets.



I never used a safety when setting 330s and never joined that club, well except that one time I got whacked on the foot - lol.

I found it interesting seeing someone so far from here catching beavers similar to how we do it. I'm wondering if those body grips are Russian made or are some that got imported from US. I've been discussing beaver trapping with another Russian, and that person got some TS-85s and uses Bridger 3s.

I've never used safetys either. Never will. I am the presiding president of the club though.

Agree!

Im waiting for yotetrapper to provide us with a translation. Anyone who can translate coonman220 will have the only chance for us to know what the gentleman is saying.

He uses a lot f care to hide his traps and chain and cover his foot prints. I wonder if he isn't dealing with a lot of thieves.

Welcome... It is nice to others around the world that pursue the same interests we do. Great video... very clear and none of that noisy loud music in background so many of them in this county have. When I watch a video I watch to learn something not to come to dance.

Garry-

Exactly.I remember going out of my way to hide traps back in the early 80s,,not from critters,,from Jonny Sneakum.I was thinking the same thing when I saw that.

If he's importing traps, id imagine they have a hefty price tag compared to what we pay so keeping low profile would be a big plus.

very cool

Pretty hard to hide beaver trapping activity,lol.
Footholds would be the only chance to hide it,and if the theiving creep had trapped before,he would know where to look.

Like to see these kind of videos of different parts of the country doing the same thing as we do in the U.S.A.. Neat Conibears.

There are several other clips where they set Bridger 330's and the USSR trap,they show a USSR safety clip and what looks like a USA safety.
That was a what 22.8 kg or 50 pounder

Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting

My daughter has been learning the Russian language off and on since her college years 20 years ago. I sent the video to her for translation. She is pretty rusty but here is what she said:

“ i don't really know hunting words, but most of what he says is pretty simple, I got the gist. Tje first thing he says is "hi everyone" and he just says he brought us to another place to set traps, it's a big place for beavers, i'm going to set, etc stuff like that. not exact translation. And at the end he's just talking to himself, saying "i don't see anything" "there might be one, we'll see" and he keeps talking about how it's a good one after he pulls it out.

I didn’t know they had a beaver population.

Open water is easy to hide. Not so much under ice.

Cool video. My wife speaks Croatian it's very similar to Russian I will see if she can understand lol

welcome

disagree with you. traps in Russia are cheaper than yours https://k-prom.ru/katalog/kapkanyi/

Exactly

That's a cool little video. Enjoyed it.

I wonder if those are Castor fiber or canadensis?

We only have Castor fiber here, the type subspecies from European Russia that was reintroduced here from a beaver farm near Voronezh a few decades ago and has been spreading since. Beavers were not a common sight 20 years ago but they are literally everywhere now. They're spreading eastwards actively, and their presence is now a threat to the small remaining population of the Tuva beaver (ssp. tuvinicus) one of the two Siberian subspecies, for some reason they are less robust and only live along a couple of smaller rivers in Tuva, which is adjacent to Mongolia. It's the same with the West Siberian beaver (ssp. pohlei), a distinct, pale-colored northern subspecies limited to the river Sosva basin on the eastern slope of the Urals, which is now threatened by introgression from the introduced European subspecies. There are some C. canadensis in northern European Russia, near the Finnish border, but none here in Siberia (yet).

Why is the beaver fur not used or not wanted in Russia?
here in Northern Canada it is in high demand for hats and mitts especially by native people.It is warm and the leather is durable.

Nice fur Boco

Are the “fiber and Tuva” beaver similar in size with candanenis species?

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Looks like he is in desperate need of a potato hook!!

Any beaver trapper worth his salt has a potato rake

Thank you Tatiana for your run down on the various species and sub-species in Siberia. I'm always fascinated with these things.

Many North American trappers do not realize that we too have many different subspecies of C. canadensis. In Oregon there is a rare sub-species of beaver: C. canadensis (ssp idoneus) that is slightly smaller, darker furred and silkier. Just a small population was discovered living around tide water on our northern coast. An effort was made in the late 1930's to live trap and transplant to other locations on the coast where beaver were absent.

Interesting.

I thought potato rakes.

were just for Southern trappers....I've never carried one

Same, figured they only used them for moving water moccasins out of their way.