Spare bedroom. Brought it in the house year or so back to take pictures on another drag thread. Wife was proud of me when she saw the bed spread . Steel is 3/8's on the frame and 1/8th inch on the prongs. You can't use drags everywhere but where you can they are nice.

Ken Smith, can not see by your pics, but the angle of the points are important. You don't want drag to roll or not dig. Just get the pointed angle correct on homemade drags.



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JC Conner Tracker, JC Conner Tracker Plus, Homemade Drag




Tie flagging to drag...


Using drags in brushy areas, animal will be within sight.
Many times chain is wrapped around brush, weeds, sapling holding animal, with drag lying on ground.

nice post Hern,i use a bunch of drags for different purposes and love them.

I have a couple of JCs tracker plus drags and I like them. I would pick up a couple more just to have around but I cant ever find any for sale that aren't already spoken for.... Anyway, the last few years I have been strictly using cable for all my late season trapping. A few of us got together on a weekend and made several dozen six foot cables with a loop on one end to attach a trap and an adjustable loop on the other so i can loop around any object then back through the trap and cinch it tight. Quite often it will be a sapling or small tree but if there is nothing available I can use a log, tree top, or anything handy really. I had to do just that at a location just this year during our cat season...

The girls had cut a big track several times and would set up on it when it would cross a property or a location that was worthy. It came back through and missed a pan by a few inches one day and we didn't see a sign again for a week. That's when it decided to walk a frozen creek below a beaver dam. It barely left the ice so we had a couple options. I do have a technique to anchor to ice but seldom use it since we've been using calbles. The area was swamp bottom with very little to tie off to so it basically left us with one option. Use a drag. So we found a pinch point where the cat had already traveled and set there. We found a tree top that the landowner had recently cut tor a shooting lane and tied off the that. It was also used to narrow down the travel way even more. We use double long springs and this allowed us to set a trap directly on wax paper on the ice without even digging a trap bed. The girls scooped snow on a tote lid and sifted it over the completed set after remaking the tracks.

Anyway... I just thought I would share just one of many instances we have used something at or near the location for a drag. FYI we had a #3 bridger on a tracker plus set nearby and it never connected....

Heres the set with the pan exposed and before the final sift. I originally tried tying off the that log on the left but it was frozen in hard after several days of subzero temps.



Here is the cable set up...




Unfortunately I didnt take any pics of the tree top itself, you can see part of it to the right of critters head.

Renny, I like the idea of extension cable, they are certainly lighter than drags & chain.
I use a drag to keep the set location intact and rarely pre-hook drag for that reason.

That's a big Bobcat. What did it weigh?

If by open areas I really like the sabertooth!

Hern — that’s the one from last month. Just under 35 pounds.

Like said before I pre-hook mine they get away from the set but I know where they are it makes it a lot easier then looking for them and letting problems arise that could of been avoided.

Another climber.....

Is it better with the opposing spikes? Or would it be worth the time to put a set of spikes on each side at 45 degrees? I was a welder by trade so I have tons of scrap round bar to play with...

I set mine up with one on each side at opposing 45 degree angles