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how many do you want to lose?

? what shall u mean?

to better answer your question yes you can but you will lose alot alot of broken traps and pullouts something like them new montannas could probally hold them consistently but for that price you could buy yote traps

exactly what size and brand

#2 bridger fully modified

As far as Brand, It really makes no difference as long as you set them up right. But I would not go with anything smaller than a 1.75 for yotes. You will catch a few yotes in 1.5's and you will hold a few, but it is definately NOT the trap of choice. I suppose if you really worked them over you could, but why bother when there are correct tools out there to use.

With the exception of the old Montgomery 1.5's By the time you'd get done modifying the trap, you'd be money ahead to just buy a #2 or #3 trap that was designed for coyotes.

The old Montgomery 1.5's will hold coyotes, but the jaw spread is smaller, so you need to be more exact in trap placement. Something better left to the experienced trappers. You'd be better off, with more coyotes to skin, if you started out with the right sized trap.

dukes are cheap and still good traps i dont have any but have heard good stuff bout the #3s

#3 or #4

Duke #2 offsets

Cheap & strong

I have caught all my yotes in them this year. I would change the swivel though to an MB crunch proof

Coontrapper, the kind of traps you use for coyotes depends on which state you live in, and your regulations. Some states require offsets, some have trap size limitations, etc. Before buying any traps, make sure you read your regulations backwards and forwards, and anything in those regulations you don't understand, post a question on here and we'll try to help you out.

yup what buck said i personally would hate to buy traps then find out you cant use them

yes.

Here in Minnesota, alot of guy's including myself, use the 1.75 CS. I've had good luck with this size, but the main reason it's popular here is you'll catch just as many fox and coon in your coyote sets and a bigger trap would be overkill for those critters. If I were after yotes only I'd rather us a # 3.

I have held and lost them in fox sets. A better choice is the 1.75, well swivelled and double staked.

I have caught several in a Northwoods 1 1/2 coilspring with no modifications. I have lost some also but I have lost some in all sizes of traps up to #3.

i have cought alot of coyote in 1 1/2 because back when i started traping that was all i had but when i did catch one there was a good chance if i waited tell that afternoon they would have the jaws pulled out so if i was going to use 1 1/2 i would four coil them

Yes...but not consistently if they are stock traps. I do it all the time..but my traps are 1.5s only by name...LOL.

Outside laminated, baseplated, center swivelled,#3 American chain, MB HD swivels, #2 music wire springs, jaw tips bubbled. They started out as Duke 1.5s ...but the mods cost more than the traps. They work well!

Seriously, pick at least a #2 and a #3 is even better. If you do all the same stuff to a #3 Duke OS and 4 coil it, you have a real nice yote trap. Here's some of those.

Or...just buy a ready made MB 650 O/I laminated and get the best without having to do anything.

Yes, but your traps need to be modded out and trap placement needs to be right on.

call it just luck but i got this yote in a stock duke 1.5 and there was no dammage to the trap at all

BuckNE gave you the best advice. Once again someone asks how and/or what and no one knows where they are from!!!!! Can't we all just give up the secret?????????????????????? RD

Hey Cricket, I got lucky just like you, this stock duke 1.5 held this coyote w/ no damage done to the trap. But i have also had #2 c.s. traps that were all bent up and smashed after holding a coyote.

Ive never lost a coyote in a 1.5. I caught coyotes that weighed around 45lbs, No Damage. The most i dislike about them for coyotes is that I have rarely been able to get a full pad catch, I mean the trap is just not big enough to get a pad catch. The way I look at it is as once those levers lock the jaws weak or not, that coyote isn't going anywhere(unless). The next part is how much of a foot catch do you have, what condition is the trap in. Swivels, double staked???? Or single??? 4 coiled??? How old is the chain??

I used some of the new Montana 1 1/2's and the coyotes tored the crap out of them, missing dogs and pans, you name it. But the Coyote was in the trap when I got there.