Mountain Beavers

[Cylvertip]

Anyone know why they are nicknamed "Boomers"

[Kit Carson]

Got some more of the little bastages. Got a funny pic of one looking at me

[bear hunter]

 

[ouchfoss]

Very cool.
Part of me wonders if you could stick a carrot through the cage and feed him like a domestic rabbit.  would he nibble away like a bunny or would he go psycho and tear it apart thinking it was your finger.

[Kit Carson]

Trapped a few more of these guys lately...Check out those claws in the first pic 

[Kit Carson]

Little guy today

[Skyvalhunter]

pound for pound toughest critter out there

[Stump]

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.

[PolarBear]

My cousin and I use to trap them for Simpson. We got $5 each back in the 80s.

[Humptulips]

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.

[Kit Carson]

A lot of burrows at this place. Got one so far

[JakeLand]

  keep it up  !!

[jackmaster]

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

[brush hunter]

Oh that kind of mountain beaver.

[JakeLand]

Oh that kind of mountain beaver.