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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2016, 11:06:04 AM »
Anyone know why they are nicknamed "Boomers"???
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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2016, 05:46:51 PM »
Got some more of the little bastages. Got a funny pic of one looking at me



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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2016, 08:53:59 AM »
 :tup:
Boar looking for Sow to hunt with. LOL

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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2016, 09:24:01 AM »
Very cool.
Part of me wonders if you could stick a carrot through the cage and feed him like a domestic rabbit.  :chuckle: would he nibble away like a bunny or would he go psycho and tear it apart thinking it was your finger.

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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2016, 02:32:02 PM »
Trapped a few more of these guys lately...Check out those claws in the first pic  :yike:






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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #20 on: May 27, 2016, 06:47:23 PM »
Little guy today


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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #21 on: May 27, 2016, 06:51:36 PM »
pound for pound toughest critter out there
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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2016, 07:07:18 PM »
Trapped them for years for the local timber company's. Had one bite the end off a white ox glove once. Never used a live trap. Used a conibear no. 4 on them.  Would get 50 to 70 off a average clear cut.  Real fun.

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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2016, 07:30:06 PM »
My cousin and I use to trap them for Simpson. We got $5 each back in the 80s.

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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2016, 09:46:16 PM »
Anyone know why they are nicknamed "Boomers"???

I watched a show about Appalachia and the locals were talking about boomers. Apparently it is an old term used for some kind of small rodents or squirrels in certain parts. Not sure what the actual animal they were calling boomers back there as they never showed one. I think it was just a catch all for all small furry animals. It also might well have been ground hogs. I am not sure.
Anyway I suppose some of those folk settled in parts of OR and used the same lingo and it stuck.
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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #25 on: June 04, 2016, 12:08:06 PM »
A lot of burrows at this place. Got one so far







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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #26 on: June 05, 2016, 09:53:05 AM »
 :tup: keep it up  !!

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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #27 on: June 05, 2016, 11:11:57 AM »
I seriously have a lot of mountain beaver around my place if you ever get to graham and want a place to set your traps
my grandpa always said "if it aint broke dont fix it"

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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #28 on: June 05, 2016, 11:17:32 AM »
Oh that kind of mountain beaver.
That's my one shot.

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Re: Mountain Beavers
« Reply #29 on: June 05, 2016, 05:08:04 PM »
Oh that kind of mountain beaver.
       
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