Beaver Hunting

[Winchester69]

A friend of mine has a series of dams on his property, causing flooding and washouts. Does anyone have a good method for getting rid of these critters?

 

[Dirtball]

Google Alfred Nobel, he has the answer.
Dave

 

[Austin]

Dynamite

 

[222Rem]

Shoot them don't miss you might not get another chance in a day time .

 

[Nodak7mm]

Get with your local Game & Fish, obtain a wildlife damage control permit,or whatever they may call them in your state) and just hunt em.

Nodak

 

[waterdog]

Beaver hunting.......Hmmmmm I must be getting old..Beaver hunting is something I remember doing when I was young and single.......

Time sure does go by fast

 

[killahog]

Post someone between the lodge or bank den and the Dam with a rifle and have another person start destroying the dam. It don't take long for them to sense the drop in water level and show up, when they do shoot them. This seems to work best after dark.

 

[LHSmith]

If your friend is in California, He would best just move out and let the beavers live in peace....they were there long before he was there

 

[Winchester69]

Sir,
I have no doubt that you're absolutely correct.
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[varminater]

1) Any rifle you own that shoots strait.

2) A 330 conibear well placed in a runway.

Save the dynamite for the movies.

 

[Ackman]

If your friend is in California, He would best just move out and let the beavers live in peace....they were there long before he was there

Good advice. Move and let the beavers have it.....that's what you'd do, right?

 

[LHSmith]

In California, it's not what one wants to do, but what one is forced to do. People there have less rights than animals.

 

[Ackman]

In California, it's not what one wants to do, but what one is forced to do. People there have less rights than animals.

California sucks but there are lots of places you could be rid of a beaver no problem. Depends on where you are. Do you know where Win69's friend lives? And he may well have been there before those beavers. So..... would you move and let the beavers have your land?

 

[LHSmith]

I simply would NOT live in a state that has Octomom as their poster girl.
Two posters said to use dynamite, one post was way-off topic, but you single out my tongue-in-cheek post as questionable advice.

 

[Ackman]

California's no longer a fit place to live. Hasn't been for a long time. I'd also use dynamite if it were feasible. And years ago I chased beaver real often. But it was the premise behind your tongue-in cheek advice.....the politically correct,and offensive) notion that humans are wrong if they live where animals used to live and the two come into conflict.

 

[Winchester69]

Before this thing goes downhill any farther, thank you all,even the off-topic parts that did not go unappreciated) for your advice. It has been passed along.
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[ALO]

Why Hell, if you lived in West Virginny, you would first blow up the dam - wait til they fly in the air, either shoot 'em with a shotgun as they fly through air, have Ol' Blue retrieve 'em, have Granny skin them out, light up that old 55 gallon drum grill, and have some beaver gizzard stew for dinner, along with a case of Budweiser! Life doesn't get any better than this!!

 

[PoachersPet]

Ask here
www.trapperman.com A good trapper can KO a colony in a few nights.

 

[people]

If it is leagal to shoot them in your state use the best shooting rifle you have. For me I have always used my 7mm STW. I have never lost one and they were all one shot one kills.

Then if you are having water issues then cut down the dam or blow it down. Back in the day in Northern MN my grandpa used to blow a hole in the dams as they were causing flooding on his land. If you do not take care of the problem the bever will continue to cut down trees to fix the holes you put in it.

 

[olympian]

A friend of mine has a series of dams on his property, causing flooding and washouts. Does anyone have a good method for getting rid of these critters?

To do it legally, check with Fish & Game regulators in your friends state. In some places, there is a single person in the entire state with the legal authority to destroy a dam and that person makes the decision as to whether or not it is the course of action. The other legal method is trapping, again, depending on where it is located.

As for other methods which I have witnessed but do not necessarily condone,wink,wink), 12ga. and #4 buckshot.