KrisB
Ten Pointer
Lee (lasttombstone)'s neighbor was having beaver problems on a pond of his and gave us permission to trap them. We went there yesterday evening and set two 330s Lee has. We set them at the beaver dam at two places where we made holes with a tater rake so the beaver would come along to repair the holes and hopefully get caught in the traps.
Lee called me today with good news and bad news. The bad news was one of the 330s was gone! A beaver must have taken it with it. The good news was there was a beaver in the other trap!
Drove over to Lee's this evening after work and we went out to the pond. We found this guy there and got it out of the trap and back to Lee's house before we froze to death! Lee weighed it and it weighed in at 25 lbs! We put it in a trash bag and I took it home, dried it off with some towels, then managed to hang it up from a ladder to dry overnight.
Skinning and fleshing and butchering starts tomorrow and that will all just be me, with some help from another trapper who I'll mention in the next post. Thank you is nowhere near enough, but THANK YOU to Lee for making this beaver trapping adventure happen in more ways than one!
Lee called me today with good news and bad news. The bad news was one of the 330s was gone! A beaver must have taken it with it. The good news was there was a beaver in the other trap!
Drove over to Lee's this evening after work and we went out to the pond. We found this guy there and got it out of the trap and back to Lee's house before we froze to death! Lee weighed it and it weighed in at 25 lbs! We put it in a trash bag and I took it home, dried it off with some towels, then managed to hang it up from a ladder to dry overnight.
Skinning and fleshing and butchering starts tomorrow and that will all just be me, with some help from another trapper who I'll mention in the next post. Thank you is nowhere near enough, but THANK YOU to Lee for making this beaver trapping adventure happen in more ways than one!
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