Hunting Washington Forum

Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: Kit Carson on April 15, 2016, 01:43:02 AM

Title: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Kit Carson on April 15, 2016, 01:43:02 AM: Helped someone out with a few mountain beavers. Going to keep updating as the job continues :tup:

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160414_122959.jpg&hash=702e0fdd3c4d8df1d8483ca5c55065e89cac3628) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160414_122959.jpg.html)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160414_122952_1.jpg&hash=5132676a5f8ed0149da972e7678b914604dde665) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160414_122952_1.jpg.html)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160414_124158.jpg&hash=c282c1356cc9503914fcfdc0cf9e4dea25ce6afc) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160414_124158.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: JakeLand on April 15, 2016, 05:31:57 AM: :tup:
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: ouchfoss on April 15, 2016, 06:39:20 AM: Very cool! :tup:
They look friendly. I wonder if you could pet them. :chuckle: :yike:
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: jackmaster on April 15, 2016, 06:43:20 AM: The funnest critters to trap as a kid :tup:
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Machias on April 15, 2016, 07:00:30 AM: :)
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Oldguy on April 15, 2016, 07:53:52 AM: Quote from: ouchfoss on April 15, 2016, 06:39:20 AM
Very cool! :tup:
They look friendly. I wonder if you could pet them. :chuckle: :yike:

When in my youth, I was delivering the morning paper on my route in Seattle and came upon one of these cute little guys. I poked him with one of my rolled up papers and was rewarded with a shredding demonstration. Glad it wasn't my fingers!
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: wags on April 15, 2016, 08:48:30 AM: I saw a dog that got tore up by one once.
They haven't survived since Eocene (30 m.y. ago) by being wimps.
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: ouchfoss on April 15, 2016, 11:42:49 AM: Quote from: wags on April 15, 2016, 08:48:30 AM
I saw a dog that got tore up by one once.
They haven't survived since Eocene (30 m.y. ago) by being wimps.

I've heard about them tearing up dogs before and somehow last year my tabby house cat killed and brought one up on the porch for her kittens! :yike: It didn't look like a full size adult but I would think it would normally still kick the ass of most cats.
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: NRA4LIFE on April 15, 2016, 11:56:28 AM: I've been very successful trapping the burrowing devils using what they are eating for bait. Usually rhodies, fir bows, dahlias, etc. I also have found that by dumping used cat litter down their holes will deter them from that area (and move onto the neighbors property).
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Blsum on April 15, 2016, 06:38:03 PM: :tup:
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Stickerbush on April 15, 2016, 08:44:00 PM: I have these guys in my yard. Kind of an unknown animal
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: jasnt on April 15, 2016, 08:53:48 PM: Glad I live in the sticks. Everything can be settled with the 22 around these parts lol
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: JakeLand on April 15, 2016, 09:43:49 PM: Quote from: jasnt on April 15, 2016, 08:53:48 PM
Glad I live in the sticks. Everything can be settled with the 22 around these parts lol

:yeah: but still fun to trap them and make a dime off it too!!!
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: billythekidrock on April 15, 2016, 10:22:38 PM: Used to leg hold trap them when we were kids.
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: jackmaster on April 16, 2016, 08:16:01 AM: It was the first critter we ever trapped as kids, my dad taught us how to make a snare that actually yanked them up into the air, sometimes we would only have a foot in the snare but when we caught them by the neck they would be dead sometimes :chuckle: they can get.pretty vicious, like a wild kitty cat , they would even make a gruntn noise..
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Cylvertip on April 18, 2016, 11:06:04 AM: Anyone know why they are nicknamed "Boomers"???
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Kit Carson on April 22, 2016, 05:46:51 PM: Got some more of the little bastages. Got a funny pic of one looking at me

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160422_090351.jpg&hash=45303107a7a57878922d8a49bb2ddd4f229bc5ab) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160422_090351.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: bear hunter on April 23, 2016, 08:53:59 AM: :tup:
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: ouchfoss on April 23, 2016, 09:24:01 AM: Very cool.
Part of me wonders if you could stick a carrot through the cage and feed him like a domestic rabbit. :chuckle: would he nibble away like a bunny or would he go psycho and tear it apart thinking it was your finger.
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Kit Carson on May 14, 2016, 02:32:02 PM: Trapped a few more of these guys lately...Check out those claws in the first pic :yike:

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160514_103347.jpg&hash=c209751c30ed8f24e00cd7bcd6ea464b7e8fa0f4) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160514_103347.jpg.html)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160514_103334.jpg&hash=6ec96b340ac791007285bc067cd78af11691d0cc) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160514_103334.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Kit Carson on May 27, 2016, 06:47:23 PM: Little guy today

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160515_133708.jpg&hash=f579513955e4e3a7b5416393c57a6fb6893b9c40) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160515_133708.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Skyvalhunter on May 27, 2016, 06:51:36 PM: pound for pound toughest critter out there
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Stump on May 27, 2016, 07:07:18 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: PolarBear on May 27, 2016, 07:30:06 PM: My cousin and I use to trap them for Simpson. We got $5 each back in the 80s.
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Humptulips on May 27, 2016, 09:46:16 PM: Quote from: Cylvertip on April 18, 2016, 11:06:04 AM
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.
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: Kit Carson on June 04, 2016, 12:08:06 PM: A lot of burrows at this place. Got one so far

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160526_110734.jpg&hash=3d9aee5e9e2a9d6f2d2637a0b331ca74f028df75) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160526_110734.jpg.html)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160526_111002.jpg&hash=502ab7fce8fd0dc38f2498ec423f256aea06dde9) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160526_111002.jpg.html)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi306.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn273%2Fvictoryballer%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F20160604_114752.jpg&hash=32468cea97b6cd611ee015092b38db828a5e19a5) (http://s306.photobucket.com/user/victoryballer/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160604_114752.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: JakeLand on June 05, 2016, 09:53:05 AM: :tup: keep it up !!
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: jackmaster on June 05, 2016, 11:11:57 AM: 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
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: brush hunter on June 05, 2016, 11:17:32 AM: Oh that kind of mountain beaver.
Title: Re: Mountain Beavers
Post by: JakeLand on June 05, 2016, 05:08:04 PM: Quote from: brush hunter on June 05, 2016, 11:17:32 AM
Oh that kind of mountain beaver.

:chuckle: