Anybody using a 17 HMR for Beaver

[Lorne]

This is right out of the Alberta Hunting Regulations


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Regulations allow landholders (residents only) to take immediate action to control some problem wildlife. The following privileges are beyond those permitted under fur management licences. Please contact your Fish and Wildlife district office when furbearers other than the species shown in this section are destroying property. A damage control licence may be necessary.

Section 40 of the Wildlife Act specifies that no person shall hunt wildlife or discharge firearms on or over occupied lands, or enter on such lands for the purpose of doing so without the consent of the owner or occupant.

Beaver may be hunted and trapped, without a licence and during all seasons, on privately owned land by the owner or occupant of the land, or by a resident with written permission from the owner or occupant of the land.

 

[kombi1976]

I'd never use a 17 HMR on beaver.
Geez, my wife would kill me!
Oh, right.
Mmmm, wrong beaver.........

 

[Salty]

Thanks for setting this thread straight Kombi

 

[troutseeker]

Bigredd...........Mountain Beavers? Where do we find those?

In the valleys, between the mountains...

 

[kombi1976]

Thanks for setting this thread straight Kombi

Anytime, Salty.
My wife says I'm helpful like that.
Why she's always got a scowl on her face when she says it I don't know.....

 

[Sasquatch]

troutseeker...........thanks for clearing that up for me. After thirty-five years of holding a trapping licence I have only just become aware of new and endangered sub-species of beaver. It's amazing the provincial governments don't put anything about this unknown sub-species in their trapping regulations, but then .....what can you expect from government?

 

[lcq]

My 17HMR works like a charm. One shot behind the ear and it turns them off like a switch. No recoil so you can see the impact through the scope.

Brian

 

[Kirby]

You've been misinformed Kirby. They're not protected in Canada or BC for that matter. You can trap them. You can destroy them if they're causing property damage. You can remove their dams but not with explosives.

Very well could be. I just know that every time I was sent out to take a dam down I had to have a form saying that we(DU) have permision to control the water levels.

Kirby

 

[troutseeker]

troutseeker...........thanks for clearing that up for me. After thirty-five years of holding a trapping licence I have only just become aware of new and endangered sub-species of beaver. It's amazing the provincial governments don't put anything about this unknown sub-species in their trapping regulations, but then .....what can you expect from government?

You are welcome Sasquatch! I did see a plateau beaver last spring while fishing a local lake for trout. Quite the distinguished looking animal, I could not beleive how flat it's tail was!!! Must be another new sub-species...

I do believe beaver is endangered as no matter how hard or long I look I can't seem to get any around here!!!

Troutseeker

 

[BIGREDD]

Bigredd...........Mountain Beavers? Where do we find those?

You think I'm Kidding... you should read this... and never question me again! http://www.speciesatrisk.gc.ca/search/speciesDetails_e.cfm?SpeciesID=333

Distribution and Population
The Mountain Beaver occurs within and to the west of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of western North America. In Canada, it is found only in extreme southwestern British Columbia. The subspecies Aplodontai rufa rufa is found south of the Fraser River from Hope to Langley; the subspecies A. rufa raineri is found east of Hope, north along the Cascade Mountains, to the Lytton-Merritt area, and west to about Princeton. There appears to be some overlap of the two subspecies in the area of the Skagit River south of Hope. A very crude estimate of the number of Mountain Beavers in Canada is about 1600 adults. Anecdotal evidence suggests that population declines have occured in the valley bottom of the Fraser River and in the foothills of the lower Fraser Valley.

 

[Sasquatch]

I musta been part of the reason for the species decline.

All those years we just called those .....beavers.............should of had one mounted, it being a rare and endangered species. Apparently the Fish and Wildlife department doesn't know that.

Would be a good reason to clear all people out of the Fraser Valley and return it to it's natural state. The local anti's have another 'spotted owl' right under their nose.

 

[b72471]

Beaver hunting

When I was a little younger I used very low power optics not too clear sometimes mounted on a bottle of VODKA, it worked pretty well. Take care Bill.