Posted: 9/6/2009 1:15:45 PM EDT
| What do you do when you trap something you did not intend trap? I have set up several snares around a lake that has several beavers going to town on the trees and the owner as asked me to get rid of them. The problem is that I saw a deer right next to my snare the other day and today that same snare was broken and I believe it was from a deer going to its watering hole. I know that I can set up a deer stop on the snare but what it that does not work or it does not have a deer stop on it. The snare that broke was about 15 years old and I am positive that if I had placed one of my new snares on that trail I would have a deer snared. |
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Loop diameter, loop height, guide sticks, and LOCATION are all factors YOU can use to target one species, and/or avoid others. A big +1. I'd also suggest you try putting some of your snares at least partly in the water on their slides. That makes them specific to the beavers using that cutting area. |
| Follow the trails back to the water, were the beaver are coming to shore. Use a #3 or #4 trap on a drown cable and smear a little beaver castor oil right around the water line were your trap is. As long as you have open water. That is the most effective way to hammer beaver in open water. Just like making a snare, run the cable though the eye of the drowner at the end of your trap chain. Once your cable is though the trap chain, loop both ends on your snare machine. Your trap should slid one way on the cable only. just run a T stake though the shore end, and connect a heavy weight at the other end. As soon as the beaver steps in the trap, he dive back into the water, and the drowner slides down the cable to the weight but won't slid back up the cable. IMHO snaring beaver is hit or miss, because everything uses beaver trails. I can clean out a beaver colony in a week doing this, and never have to mess with snaring deer. |