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Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy #6288785 07/28/18 08:16 AM 07/28/18 08:16 AM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin Muskrat OP trapper
Muskrat OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin	Sitting here tailgating this morning and a kid walks by with two new Duke #110s. Chat a bit and I examine the trap. Link ends on the chain are sharp as razors. Kid is going to either cut himself or shred gauntlets using these some day. What a shame.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6288854 07/28/18 09:41 AM 07/28/18 09:41 AM
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 5,994 South metro, MN C Calvin trapper
Calvin trapper C Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 5,994 South metro, MN	The kid will have a little more practice with the file on the chain...right after he files the triggers.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6288905 07/28/18 10:52 AM 07/28/18 10:52 AM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin Muskrat OP trapper
Muskrat OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin	This is normal?

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6288909 07/28/18 10:58 AM 07/28/18 10:58 AM
Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 36,265 Central, SD Law Dog trapper
Law Dog trapper Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 36,265 Central, SD	You get what you pay for they need work but are cheaper traps, you want better you pay more for a better made trap and that stuff is take care of. Just like tanned furs you get what you pay for in the end cheaper is just that cheaper. Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that! Jerry Herbst

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6288935 07/28/18 11:43 AM 07/28/18 11:43 AM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin Muskrat OP trapper
Muskrat OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin	I agree Jerry. I use Dukes myself. Just never have seen such lousy chains before. Now made in Vietnam.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6288939 07/28/18 11:52 AM 07/28/18 11:52 AM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 4,143 Pa W Wright Brothers trapper
Wright Brothers trapper W Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 4,143 Pa	Have got the best price on new traps at conventions. Some were "blems", I just fixed em. For the price it was worth it to me. Jukes are Dunk, there, someone had to say it lol.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6288964 07/28/18 12:55 PM 07/28/18 12:55 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin Muskrat OP trapper
Muskrat OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin	Rather than fixing these "blems" I'd trash the chain and replace it. The kid couldn't even carry these traps by the chain.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6288983 07/28/18 01:27 PM 07/28/18 01:27 PM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 9,132 SWMo. T tjm trapper
tjm trapper T Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 9,132 SWMo.	Yes, that chain needs replacing, you ought to send those pictures to the Duke owner. The bends arent even tight. I have never seen chain that bad.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6289003 07/28/18 02:05 PM 07/28/18 02:05 PM
Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 36,265 Central, SD Law Dog trapper
Law Dog trapper Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 36,265 Central, SD	I'd worry about a huge SD coon straightening them links and picking his teeth with them! LOL They look unfinished might just be a bad batch? Last edited by Law Dog; 07/28/18 02:06 PM. Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that! Jerry Herbst

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6289017 07/28/18 02:38 PM 07/28/18 02:38 PM
Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,238 Illinois R ratbrain trapper
ratbrain trapper R Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,238 Illinois	One call to Bill Duke will make it right.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6289018 07/28/18 02:45 PM 07/28/18 02:45 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,424 Tuscaloosa, Alabama R Riverotter2 trapper
Riverotter2 trapper R Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,424 Tuscaloosa, Alabama	And we use to catch cottonmouths with a fish hook when we were kids.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6289019 07/28/18 02:50 PM 07/28/18 02:50 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin Muskrat OP trapper
Muskrat OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin	Could be a bad batch, but somebody sold 'em to the kid. Neighboring tailgater bought one and didn't notice the chain til later. Gave me this one.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6289020 07/28/18 02:54 PM 07/28/18 02:54 PM
Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,076 Maine M mainer trapper
mainer trapper M Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,076 Maine	So someone at the convention sold "seconds" "blems" (whatever you want to cell 'em) to a kid who probably didn't know any better...but I'd bet the person who sold them to the kid did. "...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound." Jim Beckwourth (1856)

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Riverotter2] #6289022 07/28/18 03:03 PM 07/28/18 03:03 PM
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,497 NE North Carolina V varmintshooter trapper
varmintshooter trapper V Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,497 NE North Carolina	Originally Posted By: Riverotter2 And we use to catch cottonmouths with a fish hook when we were kids. Called a learning curve. Greenbrier and catclaw briers are a bigger threat! The boy could afford two traps and now he is on his way to being a trapper, that's a good thing

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: varmintshooter] #6289025 07/28/18 03:13 PM 07/28/18 03:13 PM
Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 5,045 Nevada N nvwrangler trapper
nvwrangler trapper N Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 5,045 Nevada	Originally Posted By: varmintshooter Originally Posted By: Riverotter2 And we use to catch cottonmouths with a fish hook when we were kids. Called a learning curve. Greenbrier and catclaw briers are a bigger threat! The boy could afford two traps and now he is on his way to being a trapper, that's a good thing That's what i was thinking Here's a kid buying what he can afford and its not a video game good for him. Heck maybe someone will give him new chain and show him how to set them up to work the best they can.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6289030 07/28/18 03:23 PM 07/28/18 03:23 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin Muskrat OP trapper
Muskrat OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,627 Wisconsin	I find the whole situation quite irritating, including the learning curve crap. As a small time trapline supply dealer, I'd never sell traps with chains like that to anyone, especially a youngster. In time someone is going to point out the junk chains to him and he's going to feel taken.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6289034 07/28/18 03:27 PM 07/28/18 03:27 PM
Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 46,940 james bay frontierOnt. B Boco trapper
Boco trapper B Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 46,940 james bay frontierOnt.	The kid will set that trap,and maybe catch a big coon,like was said,coon will break the cheap chain and will be running around the neighborhood with a trap on its foot. Wonderful image for trapping. Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6289044 07/28/18 03:41 PM 07/28/18 03:41 PM
Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,076 Maine M mainer trapper
mainer trapper M Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,076 Maine	Originally Posted By: Muskrat I find the whole situation quite irritating, including the learning curve crap. As a small time trapline supply dealer, I'd never sell traps with chains like that to anyone, especially a youngster. In time someone is going to point out the junk chains to him and he's going to feel taken. ^^^^This...thank you, Muskrat! "...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound." Jim Beckwourth (1856)

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: Muskrat] #6289052 07/28/18 04:08 PM 07/28/18 04:08 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 22,322 St. Louis Co, Mo B BigBob trapper
BigBob trapper B Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 22,322 St. Louis Co, Mo	Pathetic! Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon. Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor. Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!

Re: Buyer beware--cheap Duke 110s at NTA rondy [Re: BigBob] #6289087 07/28/18 05:37 PM 07/28/18 05:37 PM
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,497 NE North Carolina V varmintshooter trapper
varmintshooter trapper V Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,497 NE North Carolina	My first traps didn't even have chains. Folks on here seem bad mouth Duke traps all the time but Mr. Bill sells truck loads of traps every year.

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