I always appreciate the breakdown on set locations and locating bank dens/lodge entrances under the ice. Not just starting the film out with holes chopped and traps in with follow up checks to follow. You've been a huge personal instructor for me coming up in trapping later in life (got certified in '21 at 29yo) and watching your videos!
Pine tree chewing is weird but down here in the south it's very , very common.. Nuisance call yesterday because of Beaver knawing sign on a pine actually..
My experience with beavers & pine or even cedar trees are not for feed ,but for building materials. They seem to know the pine last longer in a dam or lodge than things like silver maple,cotton wood & willows that are common in wet area. Distance to other trees can make them take what they can get as well. There is a beaver damn or was of huge size built as a shelf & dam off the side of a huge hill,small lone mountain next door to an xmas tree farm where I cut & bailed xmas trees for retail l sale at a local business. It was apparently made of almost only xmas trees of all varieties, probably chewed down anything else long ago. It was a huge steep hill. The dam & pond they made came out off of the hill side level about 100 yrds or so. Then went down to meet the wider lower portion of the hill side like the wooden supports of a rail road Tressel, like stack tank traps. How far down? You could damn well die if you fell off the top outer dam edge. Maybe 100 feet? The beavers would steel xmas trees we selected & cut down & drug them off before we could bail them for transport sometimes. Over dry hilly mountain type land through stone walls & hedgerows they drug them full size of 9 foot tall up to a 1/4 mile & way up hill.into the water of the pond they built where they could float & handle them easier, chew them down,point them & build on to the monstrous project. Yeah they caught a spring or seep on a mountainside for Gods sake & made a huge shallow pond. I told the tree farmer in the barn office what I saw. He said really? Just now? Stepped out of the barn door benched against the door jam with a .223 & took that monster at about 400 yrds on a land owners permit right in front of me.
Ice can always be chopped through. The problem is when the runs are in shallow water & the ice gets real thick, there isnt room for the trap to fire successfully & often freeze in the open position. Yes its alot more work if the water is still deep enough. If it's legal you can move out to deep water & runs near feed beds when possible & place baited conibears as my cousin & I did on the river when ice was way thick. 1/2 apples,potatoes, whole carrots & ear corn, even turnips or yellow squash. Color contrast helps. It works, but i cant really brag about it.
love every time he says nice big beaver 😂
Think we can get him to say "big wet furry beaver!"???🤔🤔
I always appreciate the breakdown on set locations and locating bank dens/lodge entrances under the ice. Not just starting the film out with holes chopped and traps in with follow up checks to follow. You've been a huge personal instructor for me coming up in trapping later in life (got certified in '21 at 29yo) and watching your videos!
You sure know how to get em my friend! Thank you for sharing!
I think if there is a crown for Beaver trapping, it belongs to you Scott 😁👍
Those odd ball off the beaten path partially mudded up spots tend to hold bigger beaver from my experience. Great video Scott
Another good video.
Nice Haul
Awesome work
Nice
Pine tree chewing is weird but down here in the south it's very , very common.. Nuisance call yesterday because of Beaver knawing sign on a pine actually..
I get them chewing pines when they run out of deciduous trees in proximity to the pond.
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How often do you set off your traps placing the swivel stick? Nice job. 👍🏻😎🇺🇸
My experience with beavers & pine or even cedar trees are not for feed ,but for building materials. They seem to know the pine last longer in a dam or lodge than things like silver maple,cotton wood & willows that are common in wet area. Distance to other trees can make them take what they can get as well. There is a beaver damn or was of huge size built as a shelf & dam off the side of a huge hill,small lone mountain next door to an xmas tree farm where I cut & bailed xmas trees for retail l sale at a local business. It was apparently made of almost only xmas trees of all varieties, probably chewed down anything else long ago. It was a huge steep hill. The dam & pond they made came out off of the hill side level about 100 yrds or so. Then went down to meet the wider lower portion of the hill side like the wooden supports of a rail road Tressel, like stack tank traps. How far down? You could damn well die if you fell off the top outer dam edge. Maybe 100 feet? The beavers would steel xmas trees we selected & cut down & drug them off before we could bail them for transport sometimes. Over dry hilly mountain type land through stone walls & hedgerows they drug them full size of 9 foot tall up to a 1/4 mile & way up hill.into the water of the pond they built where they could float & handle them easier, chew them down,point them & build on to the monstrous project. Yeah they caught a spring or seep on a mountainside for Gods sake & made a huge shallow pond. I told the tree farmer in the barn office what I saw. He said really? Just now? Stepped out of the barn door benched against the door jam with a
.223 & took that monster at about 400 yrds on a land owners permit right in front of me.
Does the ice do that the whole winter or does it eventually get to thick to trap through
Ice can always be chopped through. The problem is when the runs are in shallow water & the ice gets real thick, there isnt room for the trap to fire successfully & often freeze in the open position. Yes its alot more work if the water is still deep enough. If it's legal you can move out to deep water & runs near feed beds when possible & place baited conibears as my cousin & I did on the river when ice was way thick. 1/2 apples,potatoes, whole carrots & ear corn, even turnips or yellow squash. Color contrast helps. It works, but i cant really brag about it.
How did you do deer hunting? Thanks for all the good trapping videos! Thanks for sharing
Can u show us your set up at home sometime, I saw years ago
Do you use or have any thoughts on the MN brand 330? A bit larger and I can see a benefit as well as a hindrance. Curious on your thoughts
I use them, they seem fine. I'm kind of worried about theft so I don't want to get belisle's.
In Georgia they will eat a pine tree
Really like your videos. Maybe you could explain more detail how the traps operate and show outside on the ice what a set looks like in the run
You must have a warehouse dedicated to stretcher boards and furs 😂🦫
And trap storage! LOL
Sell in the round and u dont gotta mess with it! U make more sellin in the round imo
@@spencerconrad6889 Could you explain what that means? I have no idea and didn't come up with any quick search results.
Sell them to the fur buyer on the carcass , just as you see them there .
@@brushcrawler8612 i dont know how to say it differently lmao its kinda straight forward as u can say it..
I dont wanna sound crass but you sound like ya smoke too many cigarettes my friend.
Takes one to know one lol