Calling Beaver

[reabhnt]

Was just wondering if anyone, has any info on calling beaver.




Thanks Dean,

[CrossJ]

Sequence starts out with 1-900..............................

Sorry!

[monstertom]

Most ranchers around here call them suns a bit!%s

[lb]

Hey, hey! Maintain.

[SteveCraig]

Dean,
You can do it pretty good with the WT caller. It really does work good. I know Darcy Alkerton gives a demo from time to time on it as well as calling ground hogs, skunks and other critters at ADC type conventions.

[Cal Taylor]

$100 bills work well. Just flap them around alot.

[jrbhunter]

I use a payphone, so the girlfriend doesn't find the numbers in my cell phone bill.

[trappincoyotes39]

I have used the WT beaver babies with limited success, others claim better results. If I want to call beaver for ADC a big break in the dam and the sound of running water is tough to beat! I make the break early afternoon and make sure I'm back the last 1/2hr of sunlight and sit, the majority of the time it doesn't take long. I swear those beavers can hear that water running all afternoon and can't wait to get at it and get if repaired and stop the seepage!
Play the wind and I wear camo and those beavers don't know what hits them. Good luck.
With calling I place the speaker close to the bank den and keep it hidden and call softly , keeping close to waters edge helps, I just have had better luck with the water running.

[trappnman]

What sounds do beaver make? I've had a lot of them in traps alive ,and have observed them many times, and never heard them make any sound. (beyond the kits mewing in a house with camras/sound at the MN Zoo.)

I have no doubt they do- but what?

[SteveCraig]

Steve,
I simply can not describe it. You just have to hear it. Bill Martz recorded it inside a beaver lodge.
You can call Bill, and ask him to play it over the phone for you.

The muskrat calls work really good as well ,for calling rats to shore. I have also called in alot of bobcats with the muskrat distress call.

[lb]

Bobcats? I think a porcupine sound, which I have never heard(?) would be very good. Maybe? Not that I have any trouble with other sounds.

Good hunting. LB

[jrbhunter]

When people ask what those sounds (WT beaver) are I just tell them it's the call of Homosexual Walruses. Gets some odd looks but nobody can dispute it.

We use beaver sounds to let each other know when the coyote stand is complete- it's served no other purpose for me.

[possumpincher]

best way to call in a beaver is to hide in the brush and make a sound like a turnip.

[garman]

I usually hide in the bush, and stick at the beaver with stick! ;D

[richc]

"I simply can not describe it. You just have to hear it. Bill Martz recorded it inside a beaver lodge."
-----------------------------------------------
First that I can recall hearing a beaver make a sound was inside an old 47 Plymouth, but I didn't have a tape recorder with me. Shucks, I'm not sure the tape recorder had even been invented yet. Beavers were fairly easy to call back then. The sound of dual glass pack mufflers from split manifold engine on a six cylinder flat head worked well.

[trappnman]

thanks, for the mammories...er...memories...

now what in the heck noise does a rat make? I've had live mink stream at me, and thats unnerving the first few times you hear it- but never heard a rat make any noise.... and I've bopped more than few with my trapping staff.