My next door neighbor trapped a couple of beavers in his pond, and skinned them clean and he loved the hide so much, he stored them in a spare fridge in the garage till he learned how to prepare the hides.
His mother in law came over and for whatever reason un plugged the fridge without him knowing. Can you say Stench?!
about 10 years ago I popped two of them with my 20 cal Beeman RX gas ram. Same thing, while they were swimming. Same thing on the dive down. I’m used to seeing a swimming animal do the death dance above water after a hit, like i do with muskrats, but didn’t see that with the beavers. I actually questioned if I got them or not.
Well I must have cause there was no future signs of their existence. It was way too late, though, as they had chewed and fell every tree I had around my pond, including the one out in the island in the middle of the pond. I had to hire my neighbor with his back hoe to pull the fallen trees out.
Not too too much talk round here about beavers lately, just river otters, as neighbors are finding half eaten carcasses of fish on the pond banks. My one neighbor almost lost all her prized Koi fish to them.
