Beaver removal

2.5 gallon herbicide bottle, packed full of Ammonium Nitrate. Mix in about 5% aluminum powder. Dig a hole in the side, or bottom, or wherever, as deep as you can in the Lodge. Place the jug in the hole. Back up about 75 yards. Shoot it with a high powered rifle. No more beers. No more lodge. All gone.

The best way to get rid (Usually temporarily) of them is trap them. They’re about like hogs trying to hunt them, unless you have lots of time to burn. A few 330 conibears via simple dam sets will get them. I caught 4 large, mature beavers and two nutria on one damn earlier this year over a period of three weeks or so. But, hunting at night with a spot light and scoped rifle can be done and it’s effective, like I said, if you have the time to fk with them that way.

330’s will hurt you if you don’t know how to handle them. However, it’s not rocket surgery.

I'm not sure about the all of the legal aspects of it...they might be considered a pest and be legal?

My stepdad and I used to work beaver control up here in North LA. He was commissioned by the WMA's up here to kill them...they would pay him a small hourly wage and then maybe $5-10 per beaver. Some people paid him privately as well. It wasn't a great paying job, but it was fun and earned us some hunting privileges on private property we wouldn't have got otherwise, and because we were controlling where the beavers were allowed to keep their dams and where we broke them, we could control the flooded timber for wherever we wanted to duck hunt that winter, legally.

We didn't have a license to use dynamite or any explosives. We were pretty primitive. We would break a hole in the dams, maybe 2ft wide using big pitchforks/rakes, a pickaxe, occasionally a chain saw if they had some real big trees down, which was rare, and rake the mud from the mouth of the dam until the water was flowing pretty good. We'd then set up some wire snares above the dam, and a couple more down stream.

Come back at night and set up with a spotlight and a rifle about 20-30 yards away right before dusk. They will come out to attempt to rebuild the dam at night. When you hear their tails smacking the mud and sticks to pack it in, shine the light and be ready to shoot quick. Fun good time.

Good friend of mine was pretty effective removing his with a S&W 15-22 with a thermal and a silencer.

Have someone perform a “marriage” between you and the beavers, after the night of the marriage you will see them less and less each night!!

Go buy two or three Conibar traps. Go the dam and kick a small portion of it so that it’s draining through that breach. Set conibar on two cut branch’s through the holes of the trap so that it frames the breach and the water line is half way up the trap.
Brush up around the trap where the poles and trap are not visible. Check trap empty beaver repeat.
I suggest the conibar trap setting tool if you are setting them by yourself.

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Have someone perform a “marriage” between you and the beavers, after the night of the marriage you will see them less and less each night!!

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Until you want the beaver and offspring to get out of town for a few days like was planned, and then it doesn't happen. You're stuck with the beav and trying to bust through a few busy days working from home with the constant din of noise from the whole group.

I trapped a few. Shot one a night with my Thermal. I got busted from green jeans because the next door hunting club called because they thought I shot a deer at night (it was during deer season). They were a bunch of St Helena douchebags. Tried to block me from leaving my own place until Green Jeans showed up.


You are supposed to have have a trapping license even if its on your own place. My fine was $650 for hunting a beaver at night and trapping without a license.

Last year the opening weekend of deer season I invited a few buddies to my place and we blew up tannerite all day to frick up the deer hunters for payback.

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I trapped a few. Shot one a night with my Thermal. I got busted from green jeans because the next door hunting club called because they thought I shot a deer at night (it was during deer season). They were a bunch of St Helena douchebags. Tried to block me from leaving my own place until Green Jeans showed up. You are supposed to have have a trapping license even if its on your own place. My fine was $650 for hunting a beaver at night and trapping without a license. Last year the opening weekend of deer season I invited a few buddies to my place and we blew up tannerite all day to frick up the deer hunters for payback.

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There's a dude from Vernon Parish this year attempting to abolish the requirement to notify the sheriff prior to harvesting outlaw quads.

LDWF Regs - Beaver and outlaw quadrupeds

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Good news

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Should've clarified "state rep" from Vernon Ph.