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Unusual catch, beaver. #8129736
04/27/24 08:07 PM
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Didn't get a picture but caught a beaver this morning in a Bridger #5. The catch had him a around the castors and man parts. He must have sat right down on the trap. Ouch!!

Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8129741
04/27/24 08:32 PM
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Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8129747
04/27/24 08:43 PM
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Bet he didn't put up much of a fight.....


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Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8129748
04/27/24 08:47 PM
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The real shock was when he hit the end of the chain. cry

Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8129771
04/27/24 09:22 PM
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I caught one in a Belisle 330 that way one time. Right at the base of the tail and the castors. Ouch is right!


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Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8129772
04/27/24 09:23 PM
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Ouch!

Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8129899
04/28/24 07:16 AM
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Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8129902
04/28/24 07:18 AM
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I caught one that way in a Belisle mod. 660


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Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8129931
04/28/24 08:10 AM
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Caught one like that in a MB 750. Dead at the end of the drowning cable. Shallow narrow riffle the had to walk through.


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Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8129939
04/28/24 08:21 AM
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Alabama (Bama for short) 108 y...
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If i remember right I think paul posted one time about having an oil sac in a CDR!


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Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8130033
04/28/24 11:46 AM
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I one time discovered a muskrat pull-out from a 1.5 long spring. Just the male reproductive part.


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Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8130134
04/28/24 05:26 PM
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No picture =no proof = did you re-set ?

Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8130169
04/28/24 07:13 PM
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Know a beaver trapper got a car a hold of his wallet, good trap wasn't staked down.


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Re: Unusual catch, beaver. [Re: backroadsarcher] #8130191
04/28/24 07:32 PM
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Seems I recall that CDR incident, I always wondered if that qualified as an incidental catch...lol


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