I hear what you're saying Bruce. My thinking is how the heck can I navigate the Siletz river with enough cage traps to make a decent daily beaver catch?
On the Oneida #4 and #1 jump, I assume you are talking about single under spring made by ATCo. If so, $12.00 and $5.00 If not ATCo, I would need more info.
Herters #3 coil. $12.00 or so.
Those are my opinions. I’m quite sure you will get more responses just so people can tell me how wrong I am!! Go for it!!
I'd pass on it for that kind of money. There are likely some hard-to-find parts you will need to replace. They have a bronze bushing in the action that wears out if not cleaned and lubed properly. That bushing is reversable for when you change from dove rounds to goose rounds.
Went through a bad one in 2012. I had the same decision to make as everyone else, sell off some to save a few or go into debt to keep the herd fed. I fed the herd. 3 years later the extra debt caught up to us. My heart goes out to people in a drought. Its a bad time all the way around.
Depends on how strong a taint you want. Three days will give a stronger smell but still a meat smell, not a tainted/rotten odor. The longer it is left the heavier the taint until at some point it starts to mellow out again. (that takes a long time). Just remember, when you stop it with preservatives it will mild the odor up some as it quits outgassing.
Syria was much better before America/Israel screwed it up. I knew a pair of Brothers who were missionaries to Syria while Bashar al-Assad was president, Christianity was accepted then, house churches common. You weren't supposed to try and convert Muslims but it was more a slap on the wrist if you were caught. After Deposing Bashar al-Assad the country went to ISIS and is no longer safe, many of the Christians were killed, their daughters raped and killed or forcibly "converted" and sold into what amounts to sex slavery. All that for what? So a neighboring country could slightly expand it's borders, disgraceful.
To each their own… I have Belisle, MB, 9x10 Duke, Bridger, and 660 Beaver size body grips. I like the safety’s on all my traps mostly the Belisle safteys as my “standard”. All my other safety’s work the exact same way. With some attention to detail and craftsmanship if you enjoy modifying and working on traps in your free time. I will always purchase Belisle but if I come across a good deal on a 330 or already have some with swinging safety’s try the wire technique and see for yourself. You may have to do a few to get em consistent, I do understand and have come across the problems listed above but learned how to do it with consistency
