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Posted: 2/11/2012 4:35:56 PM EDT
 Carl Spackler: License to kill beavers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill beavers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote. The next increment in my ongoing struggle with the crafty Varmint Cong.... Autonomous killing machines! Should have dropped the money for the Duke/Connibear 330's years ago, snares are a joke compared to these. Snares are ok and work fairly well , but these Duke 330's are like the freaking terminator! This was the first weekend out with the 330's, we shot 3 over the New Year holiday. The problem with shooting is, well you have to be there and beavers tend to sink when shot making confirmed kills not very reliable. Automatic 24hr killing machines is the way to go! The gear, Senneker Canadian dispatch snares and Duke 330 magnums.  Fake castor mound set.  Another castor mound set.  Best snare shot that would show up.  The result...  Gratuitous beaver and gun porn!  Needs teeth whitening!   |
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Posted: 2/11/2012 6:27:21 PM EDT
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I did this with my Dad when I was 9 - 14 years old. Connibers kick butt on beaver. The smaller ones are good on coons if you set them in front of 5 gallon bucket turned on its side with bait in the bottom. (it's not dog proof)
I've seen the snares work on beaver, but it was harder. We set one below the waterline and attached it to a tree limb under tension, so it would lift the snare out of the water when triggered. We snagged the rear leg on a beaver and pulled the rear of his body out of the water, leaving the head in the water, drowning it. When we started, a good beaver pelt would bring $30. When we quit, a huge pelt would barely bring $5. Every now and then I pulled them out and trap some for control, but there's no money in the pelts. |
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Posted: 2/11/2012 7:17:07 PM EDT
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Please use those traps to kill some nutria. I fucking hate those things.
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Posted: 2/12/2012 2:19:51 AM EDT
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"And that's all she wrote..."
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Posted: 2/12/2012 5:35:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/12/2012 12:13:11 PM EDT
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I will see your conibear beaver and raise you a conibear porcupine.
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Posted: 2/12/2012 6:55:44 PM EDT
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Did you intend to target the porcupine? I sure don't envy whoever had to get that out, looks like a sticky situation.
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Posted: 2/13/2012 7:38:18 AM EDT
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Isn't there a maximum size for the connibers that can be set on dry land verses submerged? It might have just been a Dallas Co. thing at one time.
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Posted: 2/13/2012 9:44:35 AM EDT
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bad ass... what part of Texas are you in (don't need GPS coords or anything, just curious about region)?
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Posted: 2/13/2012 10:01:39 AM EDT
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Did you intend to target the porcupine? I sure don't envy whoever had to get that out, looks like a sticky situation. It was nothing personal with the porcupine other than the hole he dug under my game fence that coyotes use to enter and kill my deer. I had seen him before and left him alone. I didnt realize how big those thing are. |
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Posted: 2/13/2012 6:30:54 PM EDT
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Quoted: Isn't there a maximum size for the connibers that can be set on dry land verses submerged? It might have just been a Dallas Co. thing at one time. I couldn't tell ya. I've really only researched my issues. I can see it regulated as that beaver is almost 50#, a med sized dog would be no match for these things. I've heard some folks out west use these for yotes. Quoted: Me? Just a bit South of Paris (the property), I'm in DFW. bad ass... what part of Texas are you in (don't need GPS coords or anything, just curious about region)? |
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Posted: 2/13/2012 8:27:45 PM EDT
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We pulled on beaver out of the Trinity (just down from Joppa back in the day) with a body more than 36" long. (base of tail to the nose)
It took the big conibear to bring him down. Lambert's Landscaping had a tree farm down there, and my Dad's boss at the time also owned a landscape design firm and stored a few hundred trees on site. The beaver would come in at night and destroy a $500 tree. Then they'd dam up the creek and create some flooding. Also took some down in Lancaster in a 5 acre pond that were known to drown dogs who chased them out in the middle, not quite as big, but big enough. |
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