Chasing beaver

[fatslinger]

Caught a 53# beaver on the Mighty Skookumchuck yesterday. The water level keeps going up and down, so I placed the trap on the high bank instead of the shelf near the water. The old castor cage set worked. Thanks Trapperguy22 for the tip on using the higher bank.

[turkeyfeather]

Nice Beaver!!! 

[Smokepole]

Cool.  All we caught were possums.  They don't skin up nice like your beaver.  Nice one!   

[Machias]

Great job!!!!!!

[piled-up]

Umm.. Is beaver good eating? ? ?

[onetrapper]

nice one Karen..Darryl

[pnwmtnmn]

Good catch Karen!

[shedcrazy]

Dam, not the thread I was expecting

[onetrapper]

I got it!!

[TheNoob]

Very nice Karen, What size traps are you using

[Forrestrover.02]

Very cool!

[fatslinger]

This was a Hav a Hart 1081  (reinforced w/ cage clips and hog rings).  15"x15"x36". I used a handful of mud and leaves in the back of the cage and a gob of castor on a stick.

[trophyhunt]

So what do you do with it?

[jackmaster]

Skin it flesh it and put in the round on a hoop or a round piece of plywood that fits it

[TheHunt]

That is very cool...  Congrats on a huge beaver.

[Machias]

So what do you do with it?

Tan it.  Make a garment out of it.  Meat is outstanding bobcat bait.  Sell the fur.

[SemperFidelis97]

Dam, not the thread I was expecting

You arent the only one  On another note nice job with the beaver they are destructive little buggers, its always nice to see a couple turned into hats.

[PlateauNDN]

Dam, not the thread I was expecting

You arent the only one  On another note nice job with the beaver they are destructive little buggers, its always nice to see a couple turned into hats.

Nice to see I wasn't the only one with a dirty ole mind!   Who doesn't like chasing beaver?!?!?  

Nice beaver by the way and    to get off topic.

[SunnySlopes]

All these years I've been luggin them up the high banks when I coulda had them waddle up for me. Thanks Fatslinger

[one more]

That's a nice one, Karen.
Diane

[carpsniperg2]

That's a dandy

[KenPCPilot]

Very nice.  How do you keep catching these big boys?  Hopefully you did not have to drag it to far.  (that would make a nice skull)  I have a small beaver skull,  unique bone structure.  I think it the Zygoma that is oversized. 

[Blue]

The biggest hoops I have wont stretch a real big beaver. 40" hoops are the biggest I've been able to find. Most all beaver over 50 lbs wont fit on a 40" hoop. I'm thinking about making some that will stretch out to 48".

[Turner89]

Awesome I'm beginning to get a strong urge to start trapping again. I havn't done it since high school, and really had no desire to do it without leg hold traps.
 Got my trapper card when I was 14-15 yrs old back in 84-85. Wdf should still have record of that shouldn't they?

[Humptulips]

Awesome I'm beginning to get a strong urge to start trapping again. I havn't done it since high school, and really had no desire to do it without leg hold traps.
 Got my trapper card when I was 14-15 yrs old back in 84-85. Wdf should still have record of that shouldn't they?

Yes they should. If you ever had a trapping license for sure they will have a record of that.