I am definitely better looking. I will be down in salvo a few days around turkey day. May hunt ducks but going fishing. we need to catch up when I am down there. told my son to grab me a nut so I can bring home for the trapping courses. nutria not Newt LOL

No Beav I am asking snares and CR's

thank you to every one so far.

Cam locks

wire whammys.
just

Ron
I think I still got that nutrea in the freezer for ya.
Holler when you head down so we can get together.

TTT

"I am definitely better looking." Aw Come On Jonesie, didn't you see that picture of Newt clean shavin'? Why the Parkway was jammed full of carloads of Wimmem headin south to find Newt for weeks after that picture was posted on here. I hear that some had zeroed in on his location but his beard grew back in and that saved him from bein' found, cause he stood still in a flower garden.

Eric I was wondering why he was always out of breath back then, he was runnin from the masses LOL

Leary looks like I will be down there Wed to Sunday that week.

Bad news- I have to have another operation.

Its been just over a year.The Dr have's to give me a do over.
Beard has to come off again.

Support collar is whammy, right? If so, why would u not want to use a whammy? What advantage to not use it ?

I prefer to make an S bend in the support wire, it holds the loop securely. This makes it easier to turn the loop so it is going up of down hill. Like on top of a ground hog den or up a ditch embankment. But when the critter goes through I get it, usually.

Some guys use surgical tubing. I’m sure someone smarter than me will explain it better.

Micro Lock and started using Newt's Lock last year, with spring style whammy on all snares.

With 14 ga wire and the inverted S bend. I support ALL me snares from Mink to Wild hog. fast ,No cludder,works evertime, Always have a ridget support.In any terrain that I have been in East west North and south.In water ,Dry land, On a tree or saplin,Soft or frozen ground.Open fields or woods.Out of truck, wheeler, canoe or boat. Even the raire walking line.36 snares/extension cables and support wire fit in my nail apron along with plyers and cable cutters.

Can you carry all this and have your hands free ?

Yup I can Newt, cause I do the same thing as you. I learned the inverted S from Ron. Loop stays right where I put it. I need to get over to your school!
But I’m just a novice compared to what you’ve forgotten about snaring!

No good reason not to if you use the same support wire for all your snares, just put the right sized support collar on to fit the cable size + support wire. They hold tighter than any bent wire if they are sized correctly.

Just plug them on your support wire (#9 is by far the best IMO) and turn the wammy to hold your snare at any angle you want, even on a 90* beaver slide.

I can do that with my rubber gas line whammies.

Yep. If they are the right size.

But ADC, you make only 1 set over and over,out of your truck.Your method works for Iowa roadside snaring.
Sure would not work on my snare lines 80% of the time.

locks are determined by the states regulations where I am trapping. Out west I use micro locks and twist on wire wammiies with kill springs. In PA washer locks with twist on wammies. I get too much movement at times with plastic tubing.

Well If your getting to much movement with plastic whammies then your whammies don't fit your system.

The ISD of my gas line hose Is 3/16ths. By time It's slid on the 1x19 cable and then when my support wire Is Inserted It's a perfect match. The problem with plastic It's way to hard and to slippery. It just doesn't bind up well and with rubber you have some give as you insert the support wire. You don't have that with plastic.

And I can't see how anyone could use those little curly cue wire whammies They are just plain aggravating In my opinion.