I was talking about the traps. Not the beavers.

Law (In most every state.) is you have to check them within 24 hrs of set, adn every 24 to follow. So it sounds like that's not an option.

There are plenty of options on the pipe. And, nobody says it has to be new or even round.

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Color? Grade?

We usually go with: Rust
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If I can push it through a dam, I give it an A+.



Scrap yards are nice. Take a generator and a cut-off saw in the bed of your truck and have at it. We've rented gas cut-off saws as well. No need for nice new stuff.
We got lucky one time and found a contractor replacing the steel columns on a home porch one time. They were very nice.

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And you would be correct.

Yeah, they could award the Beavers a contract and keep them tied up and unable to acomplish anything useful for years . . . .

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1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Frankly, I was amazed that this didn't just deteriorate into a pornographic thread almost immediately. What's happened to us?

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1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

here's some mild deterioration

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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL

Now I have to buy a truck, too!

Head shot at 25 - 50 yds. That's how I shoot squirrels.

Squirrels, beavers and armadillos, in that order

I could never get the pipes to work, but know people who have. It seems they work better in places where there is constant water level and we have wildly varying. When a damn gets built on one of our ponds now, we dig a hole out of the middle and cover any of the tunnel heads we can find, wait till dark, drop several pool chlorine pucks in the hole, pour brake fluid on the pucks and cover up the hole. Sit on rear of tailgate with spotlight and shoot them with a hipo rifle when they come out coughing. They will eventually come out anyway without the chlorine gas, but they will dive on you and you have to be quick with that first shot and its usually one or two at a time. If one were so inclined, he could turn the tails into the state for a $5/tail bounty, too.

The 'reel' traps work well too: you anchor the reel to the bottom of the pond in at least 4 ft. of water and to the bank. The beaver takes the bait on the bank, trips the reel and it drags the beaver to the bottom of the pond where it won't pass through the chock and drowns. If you go that route, use 3' anchors, because we trapped one a few years back that weighed 49 lbs!! They are alot safer than the connibear traps imo.

They are also easy to shoot when contained in Hav-a-Hart traps, but you're talking the biggest one they make which probably runs $100.

Best overall control is a healthy population of water moccasins. Six years ago we killed one that was abnormally fat and cut it open to find four baby beavers inside!! Haven't killed a moccasin since.

Silencers? Flash suppressors? Sub-sonic rounds? Too many Caddyshack reruns

Good one, Chad!

Bot, I think your beaver project is getting out of hand. Perhaps you could locate a carton of hand grenades with which to dispatch your furry little interlopers. You'd also end up with a nice haul of fresh fish . . . .

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I would use a .22 for a backyard beaver problem, but not dealing with ponds that cost $15-$30K to build. They are a pestilence here.

I understand. I have seen farm ponds in which the beavers and muskrats undermined the spillway race causing a huge erosion problem. Also seen where they repeatedly filled overflow pipes with debris. Definitely a major headache.

But in this case I don't want to save a pond, I want to destroy it. So I'm thinking that installing pipes might be the best long-term solution.

Though the Caddyshack solution is looking increasingly tempting.

Keep the hand grenades in mind, Bot. I think they sound like a lot of fun, a real blast (pardon me, I couldn't hlelp that).

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

The muskrat problem is how we came up with the mustard gas solution. Those things will tunnel a dam or levy to death in no time. I am surprised in the pinebelt area where I believe your inlaws are, the Parish Conservation Agent won't send a trapper out there--that is the reason for the bounty here--they are ruining thousands of acres of pine plantation. I could pick up the phone and get a list of trappers who would come out for free and catch the bastards, but my experience is they then start asking questions about hunting rights, generators start disappearing, ec...

wvo's right on the 24 hour checking thing. Our code specifically mentions jaw traps, but not the reels, which I had to import from the East Coast. I'll have to check on that (not that a GW would/could come on our property or would care) but now I am curious.