Finally the last beaver falls

Evan14

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My family has an unreal amount of land out here in mallorytown ontario. A large part of it is filled with maple trees we tap every year to make syrup. A group of beaver for years now have been damming up a network of streams and flooding all this land making it quite swampy.

For as long as I can remember a friend of my grandfathers just down the road would go back in the afternoons, take out a dam with a rake and shovel, then go back at dusk and wait for the buggers to appear. well his eyesight is no good anymore so my little cousin and I took to the job

Around 730 PM last night a lone beaver swam up and was quickly beaned with a 22lr round. twitched a little but i'm pretty sure it was dead within a second. We think this is the lasr of them as the dam has yet to be rebuilt and until now it had been rebuilt every single night like clockwork. Heres hoping!

Me with da beaver.

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By the way i posted this pic on facebook and was quickly flamed for being cruel and not thinking about how pointless it was to take out a beaver....i told them to tell that to the hectares of land now being drained.
 
Looks like a young one. They're usually the first ones caught. Might not be the last of them.

You'll have a good time catching them though. Nice beaver...LOL
 
By the way i posted this pic on facebook and was quickly flamed for being cruel and not thinking about how pointless it was to take out a beaver....i told them to tell that to the hectares of land now being drained.
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Should have asked for the commenters to put their money where their mouth is - demand thousands of dollars a year for the lost revenue from the syrup and you'll live and let live. Otherwise STFU.
 
If you are shooting and not trapping, I would bet you haven't got them all. I worked with a fellow who took many hundreds to thousands of beaver all year and he tought me quite a bit about them.

Better dip a few conibears or dynamite the dam.
 
Turkeyslayer 1300 said:
If you are shooting and not trapping, I would bet you haven't got them all. I worked with a fellow who took many hundreds to thousands of beaver all year and he tought me quite a bit about them.

Better dip a few conibears or dynamite the dam.
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I would concur, you will need to trap them to be sure they're all gone.

I can blast the dam for you if they re-build. I am a licensed blaster and in your area.
 
oneskilledshooter said:
Exactly - they are like a large army, you take one out and there are another 10 to take their place. My experience has been that they will always repopulate good habitat. You can only control beaver, not eliminate them.
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That's what everyone said about the coyotes around my place but I am having a great time trying. Keep up the good work, I love my maple syrup:D
Kim
 
oneskilledshooter said:
Exactly - they are like a large army, you take one out and there are another 10 to take their place. My experience has been that they will always repopulate good habitat. You can only control beaver, not eliminate them.
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lol pretty much.

My grandfather has been trapping his line for 40 years. He hit his quota every year and yet the ponds are still full of them. And it wasnt a small quota either.

On a side note; anyone else see that documentary where someone tried to start a beaver fur farm in South America using Canadian beavers and they escaped and are now decimating the whole southern tip of the continent? And to top it off due to the climate the fur never gets prime so they're useless in the fur trade.
 
If you mom sees this pic, she is going to want to have the talk....you know what I mean? Birds and the bees. At my age, I can`t remember if I had that big of a smile with my hands full of beaver?
 
haha i definetly will pose the next one as the new mascot. There are for sure hundreads of them on our property, we just think we have eliminated the family from this lodge. Going to take out a couple more dams further back as soon as the water level falls enough for hip waders to be useful!
 
The best outcome will be to try and find a trapper who will do it pro bono in the winter. beavers are dead, you're happy cause they're gone, and the trapper sends the fur to auction and makes a buck.

Give your local MNR office a call and ask to get a list of trappers in your area.
 
I think I would have posed the animal naturally, with the firearm that killed it next to or across the animal.

Kinda like, having respect for it. Even though it was a nuisance...
 
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