Norwegian beaver.

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Oleson

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No, not that kind. Shame on you.

Beaver season in Norway goes on to the last day of April. Where I live, on the other hand, it is prolonged 'till May 15. At 700 m. above sea level, the ice is still on the waters. For this season, I've been focusing on a new colony in a small lake a few kilometers from my farm. I have of course been scouting my usual places, but there's something about new hunting grounds...
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The first three times I saw them swimming around, trouble is, they also saw me.
And if I didn't see them at first, they made sure to know I was spotted...
But fourth time's a charm.
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Federal Fusion took out the lungs, game over in one shot.

Two more hunting days, one more tag to go...
 
How do you get them out of the water after you shoot them?
 
Well. I don't shoot them while they are in the water.
I know a lot of people who do. But hitting a moving target the size of a clay pigeon, while it's in the water? I'm not willing to gamble an animals pain from a failed shot. I wait until they are up on dry land, and then I aim for the heart/lungs. Again, many people prefer head shots to save the pelt. And again, I'm not comfortable gambling on behalf of the animal.
 
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Neat. Beaver are getting crowded around here, never thought about hunting one......don't even know if it is legal here.
 
Correct, that would be the GSR. Gunsite Scout Ruger. It belongs to my fiancee, who is very, very pregnant right now and can't use it. So I thought I would try it out. My own go-to-gun is sighted in with competition ammo.
 
bainter1212 said:
Neat. Beaver are getting crowded around here, never thought about hunting one......don't even know if it is legal here.
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In most of the southern states there's no closed season and no limit . The timber companies hate the things and I've heard of some hunting leases that stipulate you have to shoot/trap a certain number of beavers to keep the lease.
 
Nice. Years ago I shot Beaver with an SKS for the county I lived in. They were flooding a road. Looks like nice country.
My wife is Norske.
 
Do you eat those?

I've heard of people cooking them this side of the pond, but I don't really know any trappers to get a first hand account.

Laphroaig
 
I was duck hunting in an Alabama swamp and this sucker swam between my legs. I thought it was a gator at first and freaked out. He surfaced and I gave him a load of #4s. He weighed over 50 lbs.
I skinned him and cooked the tiny backstraps. It tasted identical to deer. The other guys in camp thought so too.

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I've heard of people cooking them this side of the pond, but I don't really know any trappers to get a first hand account.
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I trapped 23 beaver last winter and ate several of them. I liken it to very tender beef. We grind the hind quarters into hambuger (meat is so tender we have to freeze it then grind it frozen). The tenderloin is so tender it's fragile and is somewhat difficult to harvest whole. Hindquarters cut into cubes and charbroiled makes for an excellent bbq.
 
When you look at a dead beaver all stretched out like the one on the tailgate above. Is there any doubt where the idea for the boat paddle came from?:)
 
My BIL roasted/baked a beaver he trapped this year. It tasted just like very moist, very tender, dark meat turkey to us. Fantastic. Porcupine, on the other hand...
 
Porcupine isn't too bad, at first. First time I had some, it tasted like pot roast for the first couple bites. Then the heavy game flavor and the woody flavor kicked in.

I've heard of people cooking the tail of the beaver, and they say its the best part.
 
Nice beaver, I wouldn't have thought one that big would have tasted that good.
 
you guys are in for a real treat if you think Condor is good - I just finished a plate of smoked Ivory Billed Woodpecker - tender, moist and succulent!
 
Wuz up in Colorado, one time, up around the headwater country of the Colorado River. Stopped at a scenic-view area, along with several other carloads. Chipmunks all over the place, begging for goodies from us tourons*.

A Kallikak-looking family from Way Back Up The Crick in nawth Jawgia or some such place was there. Grampaw, Grammaw, their kids and a bunch of grandkids.

So one of the grandkids points at a chipmunk and asks, "Grampa, Grampa, whut's 'at?"

After study and deep thought, Grampaw responds, "'Em's bivvers."

* Touron: A cross between a tourist and a moron. Commonly identified by the sunburned tonsils.
 
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