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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: Machias on January 14, 2014, 03:58:11 PM

Title: Ever get the feeling someone is watching you
Post by: Machias on January 14, 2014, 03:58:11 PM: Had a funny thing happen tonight. So far I have caught three good sized beaver from one small beaver pond. It's a damage job for a landowner whose road to his back hay fields is under three feet of water. I thought maybe I had them all, or maybe there was some youngsters left. Anyways yesterday I punched a hole in the dam and went back tonight to see if it had been repaired. It hadn't so I figured I had them all. So I spend about 15 minutes and punch a huge hole in the dam. I drop the water level about a foot. Stand up straight and stretch my back and turn around and there about 7 feet behind me is about a 45 pound beaver giving me the evil eye. :chuckle: :chuckle: I think I saw it standing there with it's hands on it's hips going WTH?? Bad part is was right in the spot I already caught two other beaver. Would and should have had number 3 in that spot. Oh well I'll take care of it this weekend.

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Post by: hardkorrhunter on January 14, 2014, 04:18:24 PM: Right on that's pretty cool.
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Post by: wildmeat on January 14, 2014, 05:35:18 PM: :yeah:
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on January 14, 2014, 05:39:02 PM: some good shots Fred :tup:
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Post by: Jonathan_S on January 15, 2014, 08:34:03 AM: Kind of eerie feeling isn't it? I had that happen when I was in rib-deep water once while I was carrying mink traps. There was a 50# beaver about 10' away just staring at me and I was thinking about how it would feel if he torpedoed me and latched on :yike:
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Post by: pianoman9701 on January 15, 2014, 11:50:00 AM: Do you eat the tails, Fred?
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Post by: pianoman9701 on January 15, 2014, 11:51:49 AM: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/29/beaver-kills-man-belarus (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/29/beaver-kills-man-belarus)
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Post by: jackmaster on January 15, 2014, 12:05:32 PM: Sneaky little bastages, using water to sneak up on a fella :bash: I thought you southern boys wrestled them things, you dont need no traps, strip down and jump on there.... make sure you get it on video though :tup:
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Post by: Jonathan_S on January 15, 2014, 12:20:35 PM: Quote from: pianoman9701 on January 15, 2014, 11:51:49 AM
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/29/beaver-kills-man-belarus (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/29/beaver-kills-man-belarus)

I remember that happening and getting the chills just thinking about it
Title: Re: Ever get the feeling someone is watching you
Post by: Machias on January 15, 2014, 02:23:38 PM: I don't eat the tail.

Check this out guys, I am trapping in the exact spot this happened.

http://www.nbc29.com/story/19047209/two-girls-attacked-by-rabid-beaver-in-lake-anna (http://www.nbc29.com/story/19047209/two-girls-attacked-by-rabid-beaver-in-lake-anna)
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Post by: pianoman9701 on January 15, 2014, 02:39:09 PM: Ouch. Rabid beavers...ewwwww!
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Post by: furiouzgeorge on January 25, 2014, 07:17:16 PM: While hunting last year I came within a couple of feet of a Beaver. Neither of us knew the other was there until we both freaked. It leapt into the water and boogied...I thought of both of those news stories as I stood there shaking...imagine, a grown man afraid of a Beaver... :bash:
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Post by: KFhunter on January 25, 2014, 07:42:36 PM: I had a beaver try to make love to the top of my head once
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Post by: furiouzgeorge on January 26, 2014, 07:38:59 AM: Quote from: KFhunter on January 25, 2014, 07:42:36 PM
I had a beaver try to make love to the top of my head once

........... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Ever get the feeling someone is watching you
Post by: Machias on January 26, 2014, 07:52:43 AM: :chuckle: :yike: :chuckle:
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Post by: KFhunter on January 26, 2014, 10:36:20 AM: I was spear fishing for a non-game species of fish, somehow I had gotten between two beaver and as I came around the bend of the river this beaver swam right up to me.

I didn't even notice as I was looking at fish below, but it must have thought my snorkel was a stick and my brown hair was it's mate. I noticed it just inches from my head and brought my spear up to it's belly as it looked like it was about to climb aboard....

I jumped up out of the water and fanned my arm yelling "BOO!" that beaver squeeled!
I never heard one squeel before :dunno:

then it tail slapped and swam as fast as it could away