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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2012, 02:39:41 PM »
mean lil destructive vermin..

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Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2012, 03:15:28 PM »
Mountain beaver are usually underground.

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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2012, 03:32:21 PM »
Ran into one of these in the woods at night on a logging road. My buddy and I were checking trail cameras we rode our bikes in behind a locked gate and in our flashlights up ahead we seen this little fur ball in the middle of the road. We rode up to it looking at it wondering what it was cause we had never seen anything like it before. So I started getting closer shining my flashlight in front of it and it kept coming closer to me following the light. My buddy and I thought it was pretty funny so we kept doing it when out of no where this little fur ball started charging me jumping up jaws open trying to bite me. I jumped on my bike and started pedaling away and he just stayed on the road watching us ride away. I was so close to punting that sucker to the moon lol.

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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2012, 03:42:56 PM »
Ran into one of these in the woods at night on a logging road. My buddy and I were checking trail cameras we rode our bikes in behind a locked gate and in our flashlights up ahead we seen this little fur ball in the middle of the road. We rode up to it looking at it wondering what it was cause we had never seen anything like it before. So I started getting closer shining my flashlight in front of it and it kept coming closer to me following the light. My buddy and I thought it was pretty funny so we kept doing it when out of no where this little fur ball started charging me jumping up jaws open trying to bite me. I jumped on my bike and started pedaling away and he just stayed on the road watching us ride away. I was so close to punting that sucker to the moon lol.




the lol part comes from who it was that backed down. bet that lil fellas buds where just inside the brush rolling :chuckle:

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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2012, 04:38:32 PM »
trapped tons of them for people because they would strip laurels and everything else in their flower beds overnight  set a 110 conibear at the den entrance just like a muskrat but without the tail  the good days were fun and profitable! now you just use a small live trap level it out at the den entrance and when they come out they set it off and you take them swimming in a 5 gallon bucket

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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2012, 07:40:18 PM »
Two pages into this thread and not one joke about taking the wife or girlfriend camping.   

I'm impressed and dissappointed at the same time.
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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2012, 08:55:32 PM »
The first one I seen I was 11 deer hunting with my Dad..... He told me to pet it...... Bad idea......  :chuckle: I was set up on that one!!!!! I got within a couple feet before it attacked..... There probably wasn't another animal within a mile of us after that.....

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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2012, 09:08:55 PM »
Two pages into this thread and not one joke about taking the wife or girlfriend camping.   

I'm impressed and dissappointed at the same time.

Reply 10 was starting to go there IMHO.....  :chuckle:
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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2012, 09:11:58 PM »
Two pages into this thread and not one joke about taking the wife or girlfriend camping.   

I'm impressed and dissappointed at the same time.

Reply 10 was starting to go there IMHO.....  :chuckle:

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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2012, 09:53:33 PM »
We have them in our woods in  Snohomish.  We hardly see them but see the holes in the ground.

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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #25 on: May 22, 2012, 10:03:00 PM »
Two pages into this thread and not one joke about taking the wife or girlfriend camping.   

I'm impressed and dissappointed at the same time.

That's the only mountain beaver I have ever encountered.  :tup: :tup: :tup:

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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2012, 05:39:12 PM »
There it is!!
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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #27 on: May 28, 2012, 02:41:26 PM »
Ya. Mountain beavers do, do a lot of damage. I have trapped them ever since I was old enough to open a trap. My dad does damage control for about 5 different timber companies and has for the last twenty years. I have never seen an aggressive one and they spend the majority of their time in their tunnels under ground. The bobcat sure love them though...

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Re: Mountain Beaver?
« Reply #28 on: May 29, 2012, 10:47:51 PM »
"That is the second closest I have come to $%itting my pants in the last 5 years or so."

This might need a little explanation and we all want to know what happened in year 6 that did cause you to $h'+ in your pants...
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