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    Excuse my ignorance,but,is this all ticks that have fallen off?Sorry if it is a stupid question. Yes, Those are ticks you see in the picture. Sh's still loaded with thousands more. Notice the dark patch on here rear. That's a cluster of them. They like the form there and down the legs as well.
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    No I didn't kill it. Probably would have been the best thing for it, but she's still eating, and if most of the ticks drop off maybe she has a chance, but i doubt it! Trouble is where having a late spring and still another month till new green growth will apear. Food they eat now has little norishment.
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    Couple weeks back while hauling slab wood into camp I came onto this yearling moose. She’s quite weak from the winter ticks that have infester her. They jump on in the fall, come spring they fill with blood, drop off and go through their life cycle. There will be as many as 15,000 one report said. This Is a common problem with our moose, but this year seems to be worse than most. All the moose seem to be heavily infected. Between the ticks and stress of the winter, I doubt this one will make it much longer. The ticks are about the size of a mans thumb nail. N
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    Found this little guy on top of the ice a couple days ago. coyote tracks all around yet they never bother the critter. At first from 100 yds away I thought it was dead and froze in the ice, and with all the coyote tracks figured it was just part of a beaver. He' she was very much alive, and had the snare behind the shoulders. I grabbed him by the nap of the neck, and after cutting the cable I was able to back the cam-lock off and remove the snare. Had to hold him next to me with one hand and chisel the hole a little bigger with the other. And at the same time trying to keep a lab's nose out
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    I've seen pigeon traps like the last one only those entry wirers are a little longer and slant in. Corn was used for bait and at times the cages had a good load of birds.
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    Checking beaver snares today and as I'm scouping out thne slush up comes a fury otter tail. First one i ever got in a these snares.
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    Not knowing, I thought you just had rabbit. Your hare look to be a little bigger than ours. And yes they are shot after being flushed. Thick softwood regrowth is where they seek cover. What was fun as a kid we'd have all the snow melt in early winter. They stand out like a sore thumb being all white. I used to hunt them with a .22 .This year, our winter was like that. I saw several, But was deer hunting at the time. Great picture Woodga!
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    I use a catch pole, But it's alot bigger than what You need. Use it for releasing non targets from my coyote traps like fisher, bocat, fox and coon. Used it just once this fall to release a bobcat. It's made of PC pipe and has a clothes line tightener on the end. I think you could dispatch a rabbit with it, but I it's a little big for mink. Made with a smaller cable it probably would work fine. I'll post a pic later to show you what I'm talking about. Should be real easy to make.
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    Just thought You people might be interested in this photo. While scouting beaver today I came across a couple rabbit hunters out with their beagle. These are actually showshoe hare. Brown in the warm months and turn white in the late fall. These were placed so the hunters could pick them up on their way out. Great sport as these guys can really move once jumped out of a thicket.
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    Well, I wish you luck, Chased that variety quite a bit in my younger day myself. :whistle:
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    Coyote kill beaver quite often when the rodents are away from their dam cutting trees. They are strong and their bite can be to the bone. But i bet a good dog used to making a quick kill in the back of the neck would have little trouble.
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    Picked up two more beaver from that first snare location. This one a little one caught with a good neck catcg. I'd rather leave the young ones for seed. But once in awhile you do catch one.
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    Id have to get them tanned and that would take months. I'll look around and see who has some ready to sell. On the go today. have a birthday party for my grandaughter and heading for work after. but i'll bet back to you on this!
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    Tanning and the price of the fur would be under a $100 US dollars total. Hard to say exactly. But there are trap supply dealers that should have them on hand.
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    It's possible to catch multiple beaver with these snares. This pic from two years ago shows 2 coming out of the ice. Some trappers have caught as many as 5 on the same pole
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    Few more pics from the fur shed. Beavers back feet are huge compared to it’s front feet. An this is why such a large trap is used for beaver, and It takes a big trap to hold him. They can produce a lot of power with those webbed flippers. Front feet. Not the same beaver, but this is how they are stretched. The beaver in the pictures stretch beyond the circles. That’s a fisher on the left.
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    With the temps going to be in the 50 today I went early to check the snares. Did manage to catch this big one. Weighs 49 lbs Quite sure It’s a problem beaver I live trapped 2 years ago. The tail has a large gash in it probably from a fight. If so, then he’s only move about a mile in 2 years. Up a mountain to this bog. I had already checked the set and could see a beaver foot under the ice. Up comes ole Bucky caught by one leg. Labs like beaver also.
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    All us beaver trappers in this area know each other and watch out for each other, But that's not normal everywhere. I did have 2 coyote traps stolen this fall. One I couldn't tell just what took it. But the other was taken or thrown where I couldn't find it by a bird hunter that had his dog get caught in the trap. Tracks told the story.
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    Woodga, yes they are cam locks. I/16th used on 7x7 1/16th cable. Carrots are used in a similar set to catch muskrat under ice, or on a float in open water. Set another colony today, but another trapper had set it up yesterday. He had 6 sets all traps except for one snare set. I set 7 with all snares. You can see the sets around the feed bed. I set one behind where the pic was taken. The beaver have a bank house about 100 ft from this one. They'll travel back and forth under the ice. Nice quiet day!
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    This is a beaver house constructed with wood and mud. Entrance is under the ice where they can come and go to get the trees and limbs they’ve stored up for the winter. This one is over 6ft high and contains a whole family. Young ones from this past spring, and maybe the young from last year. Just set my snares yesterday and will give it about 3 days before checking. The beaver of course will drown and not have their air cut off like with regular snaring. You catch them in all sorts of ways, By the tail, Teeth, nose, feet, and even by a toe or to, But normally they get their front shoulders i
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    Mitch! Took a few pictures as I set. The ground here is froze down a few inches, but these traps are set where we had traps this fall. First pic is the trap positioned and wedged so it can’t wobble or move if the fox or coyote steps on the side like the lever area. The dirt is packed around the sides of the trap, Then I add the pan cover. In this case all I use is waxed paper. The cover is needed to keep an air space under the trap pan so it will drop when the critter steps on it. I noticed you pack your dirt inside and around the pan then add the screen. If this has been working for you the
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    Haven't forgot you Mitch, Just haven't got out to set any traps yet. Hang in there I'll take some pic's!
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    That's true mostly. The fox are few here and never recovered in numbers since the coyote came in. But in other areas it didn't seem to effect the fox at all. But these areas are darn few and far between. Bobcat were effected as well, but seem to be coming back. The large numbers of snow shoe hare is no doybt the reason for the bobcat's return. You'll see at starving bobcat at times in the winter, but you never see a starving coyote.
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    We started getting coyote in the late 60's early 70's They'd get into a #2 victor and pop the jaws right out of the trap. Trappers went to the #3 victor and other brands, but still coyote were getting out and the larger old style traps were hard on a fox's leg. Some cleaver trappers came up with the ideas for a better holding trap. A fox will get caught high up on the leg, With the space between the jaws he pulls his leg up, but the paw is too big to get through. This is why we can release fox from these newer traps. His leg will be black and blue, but he'll run away on all 4's, Same with m
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