Nice!

HFT, Put your trigger on the side of the spring, not the top. It will fire a lot better, "at the right time". Sometimes when set on the top it can work against its self and jam up.
It will still fire, but will take a lot more pulling to engage. Marty explained this to me (the guy who makes those). Just a tip

Spruce

The coyotes here don't seem to mind. I sometimes do a little bit of blocking. The link in my signature has a lot of set pics.

Allan is right about being careful when you cut them free, that end stop turns into a bullet when the spring is loaded.

Spruce, thanks for the tip and I will do that!

Allan and JMF, thanks for the input and I will keep that in mind. I lost a front tooth to one of those RAM power snares a few years back and when it comes to anything with a spring I tend to listen

Nice like the new snares gonna have to let me know how they work out hope they work well nothing wrong with trying new stuff a qwik kill is what all trappers prefer. I made a ton of snares last night defently need to invest in a bench swage a lot easier. I'm gonna chase otter before the ice gets to thick got my signs hung on my line had to make some new ones cause my nice ones got stolen this moose season. Really wish people would leave my stuff alone this season. Good luck tomorrow hope u connect

Well went out this morning to run the line and break the trail, the ice is pretty dang sketchy and I broke through a few times on the sloughs, but over all a bumpy easy ride. Can only access 60% of it because the river is still wide open. Bunny track where few and far, no kitty or marten track, but I did see a bunch of these

Looking forward to getting busy early in the am, it is snowing now and hopefully we will pick a a few inches

Always a fun read HFT. Looking forward to more or your season.

We're getting a little snow up here but need some cold weather to turn those river solid. Looking to get a couple baits out myself. Good luck and be safe this season.

I hear you on needing colder temps JR, we have been hovering around zero some nights but it looks like that has come to a end this week ? So much for a wild Montana winter so far.
HFT, I hope those snares work well for you in all honesty I'm still a fan of the coil spring behind a wedge or death blow lock but then that's always open for debate.
Stay Safe out there and catch a bunch !
Allan

Slowly getting gear out there and waiting for a front to come through. Picked up this boy on a bunny trail, 3/32 1x19 with a slim loc.

That's a nice fox , wish we could get them going down here, I've got a couple couple friends who has pictures of them here.....but fish and game still don't believe it lol As for bunnys I have been seeing a ton of tracks while out scouting different areas for a new line :-) the last couple years have been getting better, but there are a lot more down here this year than last by far !!!!

HFT, very nice fox keep up the good work on hammering the critters !
Enjoy what snow you have we had 52 above with high winds, tomorrow's high may reach the mid 40's so much for any snow we had.
Well without going into much detail I'm going through some less than fun times so I'm living vicariously through many of your trap lines I'm hopeful things will be better in January 2018 . Sorry I'm really not trying to high jack your post HFT I promise.
Stay Safe out there and stop by the auction bid often and high this is for a great cause !
Allan

Hey HFT, when you hang snares on bunny trails do you hang them like normal for fox/coyote or do you hang them a touch higher to avoid catching rabbits?

Jurassic Park, I set them higher, and try to get the snare to set where they land in their hop, not in between. 9/10 times they miss it.

Cool! I might set a few on the rabbit trails and give it a shot!

Pretty good run today, picked up 3 yotes. Got about 2 inches of snow last night/ this morning and I am already looking forward to my next check.
Nothing line looking down a bunny trail and seeing ears sticking up out of the fresh snow 3/32 1x19 slim loc

This boy ran the wrong bunny trail 1/16 1x19 slim loc

Caught this one at a bait station. From where the bait is I can pretty much see 360 at all of the snare in the wood line about 50 yds away. As I scanned the top of the ridge I couldn't see the last snare, then I realized the freaking tree I had tied off on was gone to! Sure enough it had up rooted a spruce tree and dragged it about 10 yds before it got wedged and hung up. It was a solid tree the roots gave out.

Got them hung to thaw and dry out. Looks like a busy night in the fur shed

Nice haul.

Skinning is winning! You are off to a great start this season.

Happy skinning!

Went out behind the house on Tuesday and got things set up, saw some pretty good sign. Picked this boy up today at a bait station, 1/16. 1x19, slim loc. In that picture it shows how I do my blocking around bait stations, I created that choke point 8 years ago