Blowing up beaver dam, need any special license?

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dennishoddy

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Anybody can trap/shoot beaver. There is no season.
Beaver are very territorial, and drive the young males away from the territory to find their own area. The females follow.
Oklahoma is one of the few states that don't allow kill sets called conibear, and only allow leg hold traps. The leg hold traps can be used as a kill trap but only when configured as a drowning set when the water is deep enough.
If they build a dam where the water is only 2' deep, they will just chew their leg off to get out of the trap. If a conibear trap is used, no matter what what the water depth is, the beaver is dead.
The issue with conibear traps in Ok is a lobby called the ORA (Oklahoma rifle association) that is a legislative lobby from the past that were comprised of a lot of coon hunters. They lobbied to eliminate conibear kill traps as they were afraid their coon dogs would be caught up in one.
The ORA is also the lobby that killed constitutional carry on the first go around trying to introduce a training requirement into the bill. Guess what? One of the lobbys members owns a training facility. Follow the money.....
Anyway, back on beaver, I hope a wildlife lobby will allow conibear traps and eliminate the insane trapping laws that even most of our Game Wardens have questions about.
 

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Anybody can trap/shoot beaver. There is no season.
Beaver are very territorial, and drive the young males away from the territory to find their own area. The females follow.
Oklahoma is one of the few states that don't allow kill sets called conibear, and only allow leg hold traps. The leg hold traps can be used as a kill trap but only when configured as a drowning set when the water is deep enough.
If they build a dam where the water is only 2' deep, they will just chew their leg off to get out of the trap. If a conibear trap is used, no matter what what the water depth is, the beaver is dead.
The issue with conibear traps in Ok is a lobby called the ORA (Oklahoma rifle association) that is a legislative lobby from the past that were comprised of a lot of coon hunters. They lobbied to eliminate conibear kill traps as they were afraid their coon dogs would be caught up in one.
The ORA is also the lobby that killed constitutional carry on the first go around trying to introduce a training requirement into the bill. Guess what? One of the lobbys members owns a training facility. Follow the money.....
Anyway, back on beaver, I hope a wildlife lobby will allow conibear traps and eliminate the insane trapping laws that even most of our Game Wardens have questions about.
This reminds me of the Democrat Beaver. He was caught by one leg in a trap so he chewed off three of his legs and he was still trapped.

All right; I'll go to my room now.
 

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Beaver dams are really cool. I've seen floods not take out large dams with water spilling over the top. I've never seen one blown up (except on youtube) but seen a few torn out with a backhoe.
It was mentioned before, if you don't get rid of the beavers (should do that first) they will get back to work and have it rebuild before you know it.
Take a vid of blowing it up
 

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