Interesting local newspaper claim 120lb beaver
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I trap this same area, seen them 60+ but that’s about it
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Re: Interesting local newspaper claim 120lb beaver
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I've seen that pic at least 3-4 times over the years on Trapperman.
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Re: Interesting local newspaper claim 120lb beaver
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Caught in the late 50's in Wisconsin if I'm correct?
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Re: Interesting local newspaper claim 120lb beaver
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I know of 2 caught on the Arkansas River just outside of Wichita but it was 30 yrs ago.
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They get big, Ive personally seen a 94-95 pound beaver.. Thats a Honda 450 that beaver is laying on..Still pics of it hanging at the local gun shop 16-17 years later.
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It's definitely a very large beaver, but 120 might be a stretch.
Must be nice to eat ice cream as fast as you want and not have to worry about brain freeze.
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Bidenomics says that beaver weighed 3 tons.
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Re: Interesting local newspaper claim 120lb beaver
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I know of 2 caught on the Arkansas River just outside of Wichita but it was 30 yrs ago. I remember a picture in the Wichita Eagle of one that was over a 100 lbs. and came out of the Arkansas, and supposedly a state record. I was in high school when I saw that picture and cut it out, that was over 50 years ago. I was just learning how to trap beaver then, that really made an impression on me, never dreamed one could get that big.
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Re: Interesting local newspaper claim 120lb beaver
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A guy can put a nice fish or buck deer or anything else out in front like this and make it appear bigger.
Yep...I'm a doubter on that 120lb beaver.
Proud to catch one that big? No...I'd rather catch two 60 pounders....$$
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Re: Interesting local newspaper claim 120lb beaver
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Have talked to fur buyers in PA about this before and 76 lbs is the biggest i've heard
Till that day.....
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Re: Interesting local newspaper claim 120lb beaver
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Size is gonna depend on food, location and predators.. Beaver grow their entire lives .. When I first started beaver trapping around 25 years ago no one had beaver trapped in our area for generations.. Beaver were relatively new to our environment.Maybe been there 15 years The grew, feed on corn and breed with no check what so ever.. By the time I started trapping them they were everywhere.. I had the game Warden and district biologist calling me non stop... Im not kidding at all.. I caught 60 pound beaver almost every where I trapped.. Weighed 60 pound beaver.. First two seasons I caught several over 70.. Big beaver were all over because they had more corn than they could eat and no check, no trappers and no predators.. That 94 pound beaver came from a corn field, where she had dug a hole so big the farmers tractor dropped 4' down in a hole more than 20' from the waters edge...
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A guy can put a nice fish or buck deer or anything else out in front like this and make it appear bigger.
Yep...I'm a doubter on that 120lb beaver.
Proud to catch one that big? No...I'd rather catch two 60 pounders....$$ Not everything is about money Swampy. Just think of how famous one could be if they caught a world record anything,lol.
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Re: Interesting local newspaper claim 120lb beaver
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I caught a 72 pounder one year out of a pond for a church camp. Tagged my cats that year at the state office at Pomona reservoir. Told the biologist about it and he said might be a record. I had already skinned it but he got some stuff out of a file cabinet. said it was 120 something. I dont know if he meant state or national. Was at least 20 years ago. They can get that big apparently.
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A guy can put a nice fish or buck deer or anything else out in front like this and make it appear bigger.
Yep...I'm a doubter on that 120lb beaver.
Proud to catch one that big? No...I'd rather catch two 60 pounders....$$ Not everything is about money Swampy. Just think of how famous one could be if they caught a world record anything,lol. You want to be famous Boco? How famous is a world record beaver catcher gonna be?
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I trap this same area, seen them 60+ but that’s about it Just look at the expression on that guys face and tell me this is a serious picture. No way.
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Bidenomics says that beaver weighed 3 tons. HA HA HA!!! And some change.
God please keep they 19 fallen UBB miners out of trouble up there.
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I've read that before that supposedly beaver continue to grow all their lives. Not sure that's true. When their health declines they may actually decrease in weight as they got no fat...just skinny and lean.
A transplant beaver was caught in Oregon with ear tag and documented 15 years age. Sure wasn't no 80 lb beaver.
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That pic is JByrded . Easy to see.
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That pic is JByrded . Easy to see. You guys are just jealous that you never caught one that big.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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