I just use one at the base of the trap

Here is a picture of my boy Edward killing a wolverine we caught in a leg hold trap. Note the big toggle no chance it could throw that over its shoulder

Muskrat I know you're not a BS'r. You're a NWT boy ain't no need.

1979 I'm trapping along the McKenzie River. I catch a wolverine in a #2 double spring, set for a lynx. I have a short toggle maybe 5' long and the wolverine starts making tracks down the line. I follow it for a while and discover two ends of the toggle lying in the trail. It looks like the wolverine is now just packing a trap and chain. I follow until it turns into a willow river flat. I'm thinking maybe the chain will get tangled in willows so I pull out the cooey and head into the flat. Sure enough I immediately start hitting tore up areas. I then start hearing the gulo on a rampage. I stalk in closer and closer, I can still remember how the willows were thrashing around before I could see it. We make eye contact about the same time and the wolverine lurches towards me. I take a hail mary shot with the 22 and turn and run like crazy, meanwhile trying to get another 22 shell into the single shot while in full flight.

I turned around convinced it was on my trail but the toggle still had a 12' section left around the trap ring and the wolverine was hung up pretty good. My fluke shot had hit home so I went back and finished off the wolverine. I'm not a smoker but I think I could have used one at that point.

Great story had me on the edge of my seat.

Cooey ???

A brand of rifle. I believe they were a Winchester knock off made in Canada.

Gun made in Canada.Very common .22 and shotguns.Every kids first gun in Canada was likely a cooey.

Thanks !

W17 - I'm shocked brother, I though every trapper was born with a cooey! I still have the gun and my Dad had taped a note on it. "Brian shot his first goose with this gun at 11" He's told the story a thousand times how I had dropped a goose from the front porch of our cabin along Great Slave Lake. He's a good story teller so he goes on about trudging through the snow and telling me there was no way I could have shot it that far away ( I watched it fall and then ran into cabin and told Dad) We found the goose and my Pa was puffed up proud. Told all his buddies and made me feel like a hero. Like all stories reality is somewhat different as I had been shooting at the lead goose and dropped number three! Mom burnt the goose.

I still have 3 cooey's. A single shot .22lr, a tube feed .22lr and a single shot 12ga.(with exposed hammer)

Havent shot any wolverines with them...........couple lynx though....

I had the single shot ( wolverine) and the tube model as well. The tube model had a rabbit carved into the stock so it was pretty deluxe.

Good story Brian. I've seen it happen several times on swans and sandhills too.

At first I was afraid that Cooey was Canadian slang for female anatomy parts. It was really shocking when you wrote that you ...." pull out the Cooey"....

LMAO white17, AWESOME

Good humor! I may try calling "it" a Cooey at home tonight and see how that works out for me.

Treat them all as a loaded weapon

You may want to read further up the thread and and at home say the Cooey really smells like turpentine it is attracting you.

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Good humor! I may try calling "it" a Cooey at home tonight and see how that works out for me.[/quote]


Are you going to be home tonight? If not you have some explaining to do!

Are you going to be home tonight? If not you have some explaining to do![/quote]

Whoa!

Wow boys don't get me going. Picked up some gulo appetizers today. All ADC beavers

you could make lots of beavertail oil with that!!!!