So since the fresh dirt thing has come up. Will a coon dig out a DP that has been buried In pocket set or how ever you bury It? If so with that DP laying on the ground will It still catch that coon. Or maybe a fox or coyote will dig It up then what.

I’m going to try burying some DPs this fall. My sense is coon will work the holes as they go dirt holes. By then I should have photobucket figured out.

Last week I got a couple 2.25 inch opening DPs and will try them for mink. Rumor has it they worked well.

I did a great deal of the initial testing for the old con cuff when them, duffers and the egg trap were the main dp’s On the market. Unless they where pinned down sold or completely covered with sticky/clay soil coon would just dig/pull them out and toss them to the side. My best luck with them was when I pinned them into a tall tomato juice can and baited with a loud fish bait. I caught 500 coon in January using 3 dozen traps one winter using the can method. If you have any old trapper and predator caller mags around the coon cuff maker talked about my catch in his add.

In all the years the coniber has been around I have never heard of a1000 plus coon catch using strictly them. In the short history of the modern dp I know several guys that have caught 1000 plus coon using dp’s. Like I said if the price of coon even fakes like there might be life there will be an avalanche of coon.

Fun fact maybe 7-8 years ago when the coon market was pretty good, not even the crazy good years of 2013-14 I gave away 100 dozen duke dp’s to customers and made my money back probably 5x’s with coon that came back.

Actually, these bigger DPs were made to see if they would work for fox, with a push-pull trigger. I’m waiting to hear if they’ve worked for that.

Should they still be called, or considered a dp if trying to catch fox? Just asking

Has anyone caught a canine In DP? I caught a few cats but never a canine.
You would think you would be able to catch grey fox In them.

They weren't caught by the paw.