Good deal!!!!! You are raising her right and making memories! Congrats on the kitties!

Good stuff Ryan,great that you can take and teach the kids.Nice cats too.

I have caught and held wolverine with 3/32 1x19 cable set up with a dispatch spring and others I know have had success with it too. The key is a good anchor and to not get a front leg in there. As well blocked as this set is, I would be pretty confident about getting a good neck catch on a wolverine and holding onto it. Of course my first choice for grappling with a wolverine is a 330!

I've only ever snared and held wolverine with 1/8 cable. I'd like to use the kill snares and I actually have a few sennekers right now. My plan was to use them in areas where the wolverine starts messing with my sets as they did last year. Only thing with running kill snares is the cost. I made 200 lynx snares this year, all 1/16 with cam lock like I've always used for lynx. Costed about 160 bucks for the parts.I'm thinking about going up in cable size just for the higher breaking strength. This way I can still make and set a whole bunch that will hold wolverine and keep my cost low. Always try to set my snares high enough to get the loop right under a bigger lynx chin so it doesn't make sense to me that I'm not getting good neck shots on wolverine too. I figure I am either catching them by a paw somehow or the snare is going too far up the neck and tightening on the bigger neck muscles. 3 educated wolverines out there unless there's one big monster with 3snares and a face scar that all the others are scared of! I agree the 330 is the way to go. Usually have more 330 boxes set along the line for the wandering wolverine but a bear found some and now I have to make more!

You probably are getting them by the neck but they roll roll roll and wad-up and break the cable and with 1/16 or 5/64 it doesn't take long!. Given a good neck catch, stronger cable and dispatch springs should do the trick. 3/32 1x19 works, 7/64 or 1/8 should work even better but all in all I think 3/32 should be good for both your cats and wolverines.

Thanks drasselt. I'll look into getting some supplies and get some snares made. I really like the 1/16 for lynx, it puts the biggest ones down with no trouble but if I switch up my snares then an occasional wolverine will be caught too. Unless I'm lucky and the next one finds a #3 or 330 box before a snare.

Wait for the trapping course before you invest Mark Taylor has a really good system.

Ryan, I have snared a pile of wolverines. The only one I ever lost was caught in a wolf snare, back when I was using 1/8th cable. The kill springs are great and work well, but costly. I've caught most of mine in regular cam-locks. Like you I like the ability to use the same snare for different animals. I switched to 5/64th and really like it, IMO it kills faster than 3/32nd. My favourite wolverine set is a snare pole set, but I have caught a lot of them on the ground too. I set my wolverine snares a lot lower than I do my lynx snares though. Here is a wolverine I snared...it fought more than normal.

Thanks Yukon, I’d like to stick with regular cam locks if possible so your idea sounds good.

Y254- is that 5/64 1x19 or 7x7?

5/64th 1x19 I've been using those cam locks with teeth. Sometimes Yukon Trappers store has them. I use the same snares for everything...wolves, lynx and wolverine. Keeps it simple

Way to get the little ones involved awesome

$12 for 100 dispatch springs.

http://www.minntrapprod.com/50-Dispatch-Springs/productinfo/DS50-12/100/

Ok. I was checking those out yesterday drasselt. I figured that was the springs you were talking about.

Overkill for cats but cheap insurance for wolverine. Nothing is 100% but they they help.

I really like the Alberta Powersnares. Expensive to put together a bunch of snares but they do work well.

Awesome pictures and catches.

Quite the evening! Took Morgan, Rylan and his cousin Cody to snares before. We had a lynx in both the remakes from the double on Monday. Both ripped up and eaten by a pack in the range of 8+ wolves, about five km from my front yard. We were just leaving the road when I spotted a familiar line coming down the bank and into our trail. I looked and listened for a second and spotted a bloody wolf track, literally bloody. Took a few steps and I didn’t like the feeling so I walked back to the truck grabbed my 22 magnum and told the kids to stay inside and wait for me. “Something fishy is going on here” I said. Back in the trail I walked and watched for anything, listened for anything. I started seeing a big mess up ahead and before long I started making out little shreds of fur and then blood everywhere. I walked to the further snare and same thing there. Looks like the pack crossed the road and made a snack out of two dead lynx. Quite the crime scene! I heard there was wolves around town but didn’t expect it to be a big pack and sure as Adam ate that apple I didn’t expect to see wolves eat my catch so close to town. Might have to haul a couple 750s to town for some evening wolf trapping!

Ouch. That is a bummer. But you have a new game to play near home now!!

That's crazy!