Beaver

[Chef]

So last night I was at camp and saw a young beaver in the pool in the creek behind my house. I also noticed what looks like he may be turning a logjam into a lodge. I know I can’t just shoot him but I really don’t want him to flood my backyard. How would you handle this. Is this a real concern? He let me get pretty close for a while before he slapped the water with his tail and went under. Cool to watch but really don’t want to deal with the mess

 

 

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[ATbuckhunter]

2 minutes ago, Chef said:

 

So last night I was at camp and saw a young beaver in the pool in the creek behind my house. I also noticed what looks like he may be turning a logjam into a lodge. I know I can’t just shoot him but I really don’t want him to flood my backyard. How would you handle this. Is this a real concern? He let me get pretty close for a while before he slapped the water with his tail and went under. Cool to watch but really don’t want to deal with the mess

 

 

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Wait till the season and take him out! I have a .22 you can borrow if youd like

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Call the DEC. You can get a nuisance permit which will allow you to remove a dam or lodge.  I am sure he is building a dam first. Usually they are living in a bank den at this point. The permit will also allow you to "do about anything you want short of explosives to get the little bugger. Easiest is rip a hole int he dam and sit with a spot light. Shotgun with number 4's does a nice job. 

[turkeyfeathers]

1 minute ago, ATbuckhunter said:

Wait till the season and take him out! I have a .22 you can borrow if youd like

Can’t shoot beavers legally 

[ATbuckhunter]

Just now, turkeyfeathers said:

Can’t shoot beavers legally 

Oh really? I thought you could during trapping season. 

so definitely dont shoot the beaver then lol. Find a trapper in the area

[Chef]

Can’t shoot beavers legally 

That’s what I thought you have to trap them and I don’t trap


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[johnplav]

While you sort out what to do with it... think about protecting the nearby trees from damage.  The easiest way to do this is to wrap them with fencing.  Even if they don't cut them down, a beaver can girdle a tree in no time.  

[Culvercreek hunt club]

https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/6992.html

 

[Culvercreek hunt club]

https://www.dec.ny.gov/about/558.html

[turkeyfeathers]

Btw beaver is great eating ( let the jokes fly here ). Had some backstraps cubed , dry rubbed , dab of jalapeño cream cheese , slice of water chestnut, 1/3 piece of bacon and cooked in skillet that Dinorocks made on New Years few years back. 

[Culvercreek hunt club]

16 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:

Btw beaver is great eating ( let the jokes fly here ). Had some backstraps cubed , dry rubbed , dab of jalapeño cream cheese , slice of water chestnut, 1/3 piece of bacon and cooked in skillet that Dinorocks made on New Years few years back. 

I've had it before. Very good. 

Under a nuisance permit I believe burying or burning is what they want done.  We never recovered any we shot on the permits becasue the water was deep and they sink like a rock when you shoot them. 

Edited September 11, 2019 by Culvercreek hunt club

[grampy]

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[Nytracker]

Dont ask dont tell ...  too late

[dbHunterNY]

agreed. i've eaten beaver before and it was great. i'd call ECO or DEC. they can have someone come out and remove it or give you the legal means allowing you to do so. our ECO around here has relocated them before. takes help from animal control and a few chewed nests but yea.

[Pygmy]

1 hour ago, turkeyfeathers said:

Btw beaver is great eating ( let the jokes fly here ). Had some backstraps cubed , dry rubbed , dab of jalapeño cream cheese , slice of water chestnut, 1/3 piece of bacon and cooked in skillet that Dinorocks made on New Years few years back. 

Sorry to disappoint  you perverts, but I'm going to play it straight this time...

A trapper friend of mine used to save me a skinned and cleaned beaver each season, since I was always cooking up fish and game and taking it in tp work..

I would trim all of the fat off the carcass,  place it on a rack in a blue porcelain roaster,  dump an envelope of Lipton's Onion Soup over it and roast it, covered, until it was fork tender..

The guys in the shop loved it...Kind of reminded me of well done roast beef...

[rob-c]

2 minutes ago, Pygmy said:

Sorry to disappoint  you perverts, but I'm going to play it straight this time...

A trapper friend of mine used to save me a skinned and cleaned beaver each season, since I was always cooking up fish and game and taking it in tp work..

I would trim all of the fat off the carcass,  place it on a rack in a blue porcelain roaster,  dump an envelope of Lipton's Onion Soup over it and roast it, covered, until it was fork tender..

The guys in the shop loved it...Kind of reminded me of well done roast beef...

Soooo , you were Pygmy the pimp? Bringing all the guys beaver.......

some one had to take the low road.... 

[Robhuntandfish]

50 minutes ago, Pygmy said:

Sorry to disappoint  you perverts, but I'm going to play it straight this time...

A trapper friend of mine used to save me a skinned and cleaned beaver each season, since I was always cooking up fish and game and taking it in tp work..

I would trim all of the fat off the carcass,  place it on a rack in a blue porcelain roaster,  dump an envelope of Lipton's Onion Soup over it and roast it, covered, until it was fork tender..

The guys in the shop loved it...Kind of reminded me of well done roast beef...

so who is this now ... Jerkman/Bill ?  someone changed their damn name again- this isnt the one and only Pygmy! 

[Moho81]

Re-read what Culver Creek posted he nailed it perfectly(as always)

Call DEC get a nuisance permit.

Kill beaver just about anyway possible

Bury the carcass because you can’t under DEC rules do anything with it when taken with a nuisance


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[Fletch]

3 hours ago, turkeyfeathers said:

Btw beaver is great eating ( let the jokes fly here ). Had some backstraps cubed , dry rubbed , dab of jalapeño cream cheese , slice of water chestnut, 1/3 piece of bacon and cooked in skillet that Dinorocks made on New Years few years back. 

Hell under that presentation you could make even old beaver taste good!!

 

 

I had too

[rob-c]

1 hour ago, Robhuntandfish said:

so who is this now ... Jerkman/Bill ?  someone changed their damn name again- this isnt the one and only Pygmy! 

I look at the post count, that way I know I am talking to the original ..

[Fletch]

5 hours ago, Culvercreek hunt club said:

Call the DEC. You can get a nuisance permit which will allow you to remove a dam or lodge.  I am sure he is building a dam first. Usually they are living in a bank den at this point. The permit will also allow you to "do about anything you want short of explosives to get the little bugger. Easiest is rip a hole int he dam and sit with a spot light. Shotgun with number 4's does a nice job. 

Ha I have a funny story about that......About 35-40 years ago I was maybe 14. My Grandpops and an old buddy, the German, came up with a great plan to remove the flucking beaver that was flooding the crick behind the Germans' home. Of course this plan was made at the bar late into the evening and them being into the drink I was commissioned to be the DD and explosives handler.

To this day I thought Grams was gonna kill him when she heard about it. I have all my fingers, and we never did find most of that beaver.

 

lol Good times!!

Edited September 11, 2019 by Fletch

[Marion]

so who is this now ... Jerkman/Bill ?  someone changed their damn name again- this isnt the one and only Pygmy! 

Bill Schmidt could never even hope to fill my shoes. I am the one and only Jerkman he is merely a dime store imitation

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[Robhuntandfish]

2 minutes ago, The Jerkman said:

Bill Schmidt could never even hope to fill my shoes. I am the one and only Jerkman he is merely a dime store imitation

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55 minutes ago, rob-c said:

I look at the post count, that way I know I am talking to the original ..

All i know is Pygmy, the true Pygmy, wouldnt have let a beaver joke go by ..... cant be him. 

[johnplav]

2 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

 

 

All i know is Pygmy, the true Pygmy, wouldnt have let a beaver joke go by ..... cant be him. 

If there's one thing that Pygmy is serious about... its eating beaver. 

[BizCT]

if you can recover the dead beaver, drag it around and hang from a tree. wait for a bobcat and shoot the bobcat (in season).