Trapper Ryan, When you said 'ever try Beaver'? I thought for a moment that you were referring to eating one, They are fine, whereas Coon taste good but it is impossibe to chew them up! I used to cook some out in woods at night, when the hounds were working out the thicket. Build a fire, make hot tea, or chocolate powder drink, and when the fire is down to coals, throw in the potato I had sliced up and rolled in lots of thick!!! tin foil, with margerine, salt, pepper, garlic powder, pre mixed in with the potato in the tin foil. Just throw it inthe fire.
And cook the Coon meat sliced, and on a green stick, so it would cook fast.
The Coon tasted like a roast, I would chew till my jaws ached, then spit the Coon out and get another. Coon is fine as is Beaver but Beaver is just not as tough as Coon.
Of course after a while I realized that is not what you meant.
Ya'll were talking about floating sets for Beaver ! Well, I have one. I told someone 20 years ago, and it got back to a friend on the Sherriffs dept. Old Lt. Goggins. Next time he saw me, he mentioned the Beaver floating trap. J. Knife... he said, I heard about your design for your floating Beaver trap, and called a friend up in Colorado, a game warden, who knew about such things. The friend all excited, asked the Lt. if he knew if this design had ever been used, and the Lt. said no, just a design. The game warden dude from Colorado said that every trap would have a Beaver in it ! And this design would mean the end of the species. It would mean extermination!
Like the minefield set, I never intended to use it the design, it just came to me one day, like the old minefield set. Although the minefield set was considered totally practical, by some of the trappers here in the beard.
And I just may use it next season.
The design for the floating Beaver trap set up, is as follows.
Get a piece of plywood 100% 50% what ever size
is irrelevant. Wire some floatation under the plyboard, I would recommend styrofoam, and it should float nearly 1' out of the water.
Wire a trap {any size} to a brick with just the normal trap chain, and the brick to the board with a longer wire, length 3-4-5-6 feet.
Set traps all around the floating board, as many as there is room for.
and set the bricks right behind the traps.
Cover each trap with a pile of corn. Anchor the floating board to the bottom of a pond and don't worry have a homebrew.
The Colorado game warden, the friend of old Lt. Goggins, who was so horrified upon hearing of my, 'End of the world trap for geese', said when asked, that "every trap would have a goose in it the next morning, and that it would be so effective as to sink the whole floatingboard, board styrafoam and all, from their weight! So tie a float on a line, maybe two ! To mark the floating board, "The board of doom"
Now fellers, I said I would never make one of these, and I meant it!
And I never have! I won't shoot geese either and don't remember ever doing so. I love and respect geese. I love to see them flying and calling, more than I like money or old dark greesy goose meat!
They are profoundly beautiful, as beautiful of a thing as there is on this earth in this life! To kill them for money, is like killing something you love, for a dime!
In fact Mr. Bog, I would not be offended if you deleted this one, because as great of an idea as it is, and an interesting concept too, someone may do it and I love geese! I really do!
I just don't want one killed, but on the other hand I am a trapper!
So these things come to me.
J. Knife
