Let me know if you are interested. I'll pay your gas and beer. Should be fun, beaver has to go.

Bow only huh??? How soon? My bow is at my brother's house in Dallas, but I should be going up there in a few weeks.

Dang, this is going to get interesting.

Sorry, can't shoot your beaver my wife won't let me...you keep posting up these offers and I will keep asking her

Judd your arrows are two short to sit on the rest. You shoot a cross bow right

I could, I could even retrieve it, but I don't think you want to pay round trip diesel for my F350 dually from Dallas and back.

where is this beaver?

You been talking to my wife?

OH and SJ...that is awesome. Did you have gator tail?

Beaver is in a residential pond in Round Rock. The dam is about 40 feet from someones back door, so we can't use a gun (inside the city limits too). Estimate from a trapper is $1500!

What is city law against a pellet gun? yes, it will work

The pellet gun and bow and arrow are probably in violation of some city ordnance. If you are going to go that route, you might as well visit McBrides and get some .22 subsonic ammo and take care of the beaver yourself.

More appropriate would be steel traps set by someone who knows what they are doing. I have the appropriate traps, but again too far for me to drive. You might find a trapper in the area, but as said, you might have city ordinance issues with traps also. But if not. I used to be a member of the Texas Trappers and Fur Hunters Assoc. Google them up and get the list of nuissance control trappers to see if there are any on their list near you you could try to contact for help.

SSS?

Just a thought.

Been telling my nephew he has to be at least 16 to go beaver hunting. He asked me if beaver's like wood - I said yessir they do.

The beaver jokes get old and will escalate to cause the gentleman's post to have to be locked. Help him if you can, otherwise..... Well, y'all know.

Thanks for the help Sniper John. Talked to several trappers and the city has some stupid ordinance about trapping. Also, we would have to notify all of the neighbors about the traps and some soccer mom would probably raise hell.

I guess I will have to track down some subsonic .22 shells. Going to have to be close to kill it, I suppose.

How far do you have to be from the pond before ppl can't see what you are doing?

subsonics are an awesome idea, just do it when no one is around and make it quick. That is the best way, no need in spending hundreds of dollars to trap it. Do it yourself!!!!!

its against the law to shoot beaver, the only method to take is trap

Snare it........ just put a drowner on it....... none will be the wiser and ya won't have problems w/ neighbors either

Not knowing the whole story. Is this a city or public pond? If so you can get in all sorts of trouble with any of these suggestions. A city's enforcement will often treat such things as animal cruelty. Subsonic ammo is still loud and a no brainer safety issue to not be shot on water in a public residential area. If this is the case, you really don't have much recourse exept with your city's animal control. But if you have one beaver, you probably have at least a family group of them and more nearby to fill in the territory. If this is an issue of them destroying landscaping, you may just have to landscape accordingly.


http://www.beaversww.org/Protect%20Trees.html

I remembered a live beaver trap I saw once. There are others, but I know this one works. Not cheap. Maybe you could talk your local animal control to invest in it for relocating problem beavers.

Live Beaver Trap Link

I would never use the three SSS's but its just an idea.

We have wrapped the trees with hardware cloth until we can figure out what to do. It is a pond within the city limits that is owned by the HOA (I'm on the board).

my wife and i had a beaver in our old neighborhood and our yuppie assoiation paid nearly 2000 to trap and remove the beaver...

a stick of d mite would have been way cooler!!!

Well the fit has now hit the shan. We used a grappling hook to tear down the beaver dam over the weekend. This morning, we got a call from a local news reporter wanting to talk to us about what the HOA plans to do to the "friendly" beaver family that has taken-up residence on our pond.

Turns-out the people who initially contacted us complaining about the beavers (because the beavers fell one of their trees about 10 feet from their house) contacted the news reporter concerned for the beaver.

I guess we are now stuck with the beavers. I hope the residents appreciate having to pay for all the damage the beavers will eventually cause.