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First Beaver
« on: December 07, 2010, 07:21:50 PM »
I managed to get my first ever beaver in a trap yesterday.  48 lbs. and he had a couple chunks missing from his tail.
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2010, 07:22:48 PM »
sweet!!!

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2010, 07:28:07 PM »
I will wait for Rasbo or someone else to make the comment that your first beaver looked different then their first beaver. 
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2010, 07:29:03 PM »
 
I will wait for Rasbo or someone else to make the comment that your first beaver looked different then their first beaver. 


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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2010, 07:34:21 PM »
nice work what trap did you use,kinda looks like you bobbed for him with those bites in the tail :chuckle:

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2010, 07:37:47 PM »
Doesn't look like my first beaver either. :dunno:
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2010, 07:41:02 PM »
I used one of Bernie's swim thru'.  Took several days to get this one and there is at least one more. I knew someone would comment on the 'beaver' LOL
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2010, 07:44:01 PM »
I used one of Bernie's swim thru'.  Took several days to get this one and there is at least one more. I knew someone would comment on the 'beaver' LOL
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2010, 07:44:52 PM »
that is sweet, are u gonna skin it and make a hoop???

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2010, 08:01:25 PM »
I will wait for Rasbo or someone else to make the comment that your first beaver looked different then their first beaver. 


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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2010, 08:05:24 PM »
Very Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :drool:
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2010, 08:08:16 PM »
I was afraid to open this :o :chuckle:

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2010, 08:12:01 PM »
Wish I had a pic of my first beaver....

ive never trapped... :chuckle: :chuckle:

grats on your first.

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2010, 08:12:29 PM »
I was afraid to open this :o :chuckle:

Its ok, we are all adults here  :chuckle:  :chuckle:
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2010, 08:26:37 PM »
Imagine beaver on BAGBALM :o :o :o :o :o :o :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2010, 08:27:39 PM »
Wish I had a pic of my first beaver....

ive never trapped... :chuckle: :chuckle:

grats on your first.


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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2010, 08:28:41 PM »
that would be sticky
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #17 on: December 07, 2010, 08:29:15 PM »
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2010, 08:29:39 PM »
funny as heck :chuckle: thats a big beaver
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2010, 08:31:47 PM »
Congrats! Was it dead when you got there or did you have to drown it?
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2010, 09:13:41 PM »
Have you skinned it out yet?  I'm betting it'll have multiple holes on its back and leg by the looks of that tale.  Been some Beaver on Beaver  :rolleyes: violence going on in your hood.   
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2010, 09:17:05 PM »
lesbi@n$
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2010, 09:17:32 PM »
Hate crime, for sure.
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2010, 09:22:19 PM »
Wish I had a pic of my first beaver....

ive never trapped... :chuckle: :chuckle:

grats on your first.
haha, no one ever forgets there first beaver!
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #24 on: December 08, 2010, 09:45:12 AM »
Cylvertip....skinned and drying now...no holes or scars that I could see...pelt looked great, but I am a novice.

Machias....I used one of Bernie's swim thru' traps which goes under water.  will try to add a picture.

There is at least one more, but the water is crystal clear and they must see the trap.  Have got sticks stuck in the mud to try to keep them from going around..but no luck yet.
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #25 on: December 08, 2010, 09:58:34 AM »
hey gramps,if ya can get that trap about 2inches under the water with a dive stick on each end,they wont go over it either...The water is clear here also dont seem to bother them much,Just getting them to dive in the trap.I also put lure on a stick center of trap just out of the water,not sure I need to but seems to make them come...
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #26 on: December 08, 2010, 10:06:27 AM »
hey gramps,if ya can get that trap about 2inches under the water with a dive stick on each end,they wont go over it either...The water is clear here also dont seem to bother them much,Just getting them to dive in the trap.I also put lure on a stick center of trap just out of the water,not sure I need to but seems to make come...

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #27 on: December 08, 2010, 10:06:58 AM »
nice job gramps, i better swing by to have a look if that is okay?
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #28 on: December 08, 2010, 10:13:07 AM »
keep an eye on jimkd8 around that beaver...he's sneeky :chuckle:

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #29 on: December 08, 2010, 10:18:37 AM »
Thanks gramps for the photos, I've seen those used under water and I've seen them just out of the water as well.
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #30 on: December 08, 2010, 10:20:31 AM »
 ;) :chuckle:
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Re: First Beaver
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #32 on: December 08, 2010, 10:32:10 AM »
 :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:  NOW THATS SOME FUNNY CHIT

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #33 on: December 08, 2010, 10:33:18 AM »
all of you all is naughty :rolleyes:


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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #34 on: December 08, 2010, 11:46:52 AM »
I was afraid to open this :o :chuckle:

Its ok, we are all adults here  :chuckle:  :chuckle:



Yeah....we maybe of age but adults.....I don't think so.  :chuckle:
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #35 on: December 08, 2010, 04:30:12 PM »
Aint it great! ;)
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #36 on: December 08, 2010, 04:50:47 PM »
Memory's a little foggy, but my first beaver may have looked more like this one gramps got than I'd like to admit...  :yike:
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #37 on: December 08, 2010, 04:56:24 PM »
I was afraid to open this :o :chuckle:

Its ok, we are all adults here  :chuckle:  :chuckle:



Yeah....we maybe of age but adults.....I don't think so.  :chuckle:

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #38 on: December 08, 2010, 05:28:41 PM »
Thats awesome...do you have to have a special license to trap, or tag or what how does trapping work.

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« Reply #39 on: December 08, 2010, 05:34:20 PM »
Thats awesome...do you have to have a special license to trap, or tag or what how does trapping work.
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #40 on: December 08, 2010, 05:42:28 PM »
Memory's a little foggy, but my first beaver may have looked more like this one gramps got than I'd like to admit...  :yike:

I think mine turned out to have bigger teeth  :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #41 on: December 08, 2010, 05:54:06 PM »
all of you all is naughty :rolleyes:



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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #42 on: December 09, 2010, 12:55:53 AM »
  :chuckle: :chuckle:  :chuckle:  :chuckle:  :chuckle:
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #43 on: December 09, 2010, 03:49:02 AM »
all of you all is naughty :rolleyes:


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« Reply #44 on: December 09, 2010, 05:11:21 AM »
Nice beaver!   ;)


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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #46 on: December 09, 2010, 07:40:55 AM »
That's a beaver? That thing's huge....good work. :)
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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #47 on: December 10, 2010, 04:12:28 PM »
couldn't help myself

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Re: First Beaver
« Reply #48 on: December 10, 2010, 07:17:04 PM »
That's a beaver? That thing's huge....good work. :)
Some guys prefer the bigger ones....  :chuckle:

 


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