Post by Possum on Nov 26, 2011 7:11:08 GMT -6
When I looked into the end of the culvert I'd filled with a 330 to latch onto a rogue beaver pestering one of the farms I trap, I was amazed. As per Indiana law the 330 was completely submerged and actually probably had 2 inches or so of water over the top of the trap. The farmer had just picked the corn next to the ditch so there was a bit of cobs, shucks and shredded stalks in the ditch which had floated and lodged at the top of the trap. I didnt' care, it was like positioning a dive stick on the top to encourage the beaver to swim underwater.
I caught a raccoon in the trap! Fair and square across the mid-back, not some weird way as could possibly happen if it was crawling over the trap. It had swam to the culvert and seeing it blocked, had attempted to dive under the block and go on.
I don't beaver trap that often so perhaps it happens regularly, but I've never heard of a raccoon willingly swimming underwater.
Thoughts?
I caught a raccoon in the trap! Fair and square across the mid-back, not some weird way as could possibly happen if it was crawling over the trap. It had swam to the culvert and seeing it blocked, had attempted to dive under the block and go on.
I don't beaver trap that often so perhaps it happens regularly, but I've never heard of a raccoon willingly swimming underwater.
Thoughts?
