charles have you ever had a coyote put a stick in a foothold???

I can't say that I've every known a situation where a beaver threw a 330 with a stick on purpose.

I have known them to throw 330s though. I watched one do it, not once, but twice. The beaver approached the submerged body grip and right when it got to the trap, it did a forward summersault and it hit the trap with it's tail. I would have thought that the beaver recognized that it was a trap when it got close and turned quickly and accidentally fired the trap..... except I reset the trap and watched the beaver do it a second time. This was about ten feet from where a ditch emptied into a pond. The beaver would swim around the mouth of the ditch until I got done setting and then I backed off.... then it would come in and do its trick. I had Backbreaker behind the trap and I reckon that beaver wanted to get to it. If I'd have not approached the trap immediately after it fired it, I don't know if it would have gone past the fired trap to get to the lure. I pulled that trap because I was sure it would have been a waste of time leaving it. A CDR at a fake castor mound where the ditch entered the pond took care of this beaver.

lol me either, so i don't think a beaver is any smarter than a yote.

if a beaver could do it, don't ya think a yote could too?

OK, beaver pros,

my boss says he dont believe a beaver will use a stick to fire off traps, as i was telling him they do, ive had it happen

pics would be awesome.

A educated beaver will just turn into a ghost but still be there