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

i'm sorry but i just can't give that much credit to a beaver, a rodent with a brain the size of a walnut imo, is not going to think "i bet if i hit these two little metal sticks with this soft chewy stick that i can make this 'trap' close and it won't be able to hurt me or my kids and we can swim around all we want".

now get accustomed to seeing a square object that "the last time i got close to one of these things it almost bit me", yeah i can believe that.

you folks that have had "square" 330 conni shy beaver ever tried a RBG and see what happens??

i set a square one in a den entrance and that beaver didnt go near her den for three days, i put a RBG in place of the square one and i caught her two nights later.

They also have 97 percent of the same dna we have!

How much does a beaver have? lol.