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Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: beaverpeeler] #6390956
12/05/18 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
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This is the proper way to get caught in a Belisle. But don't fret, not many have as much experience at it as I do!


Holy Cow! A Super X at that! I only use the Belisle Classics. Sold all my Super X's, too hard to stabilize, IMO. But, love the safety hooks and strong springs of the Classics.


I don't care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.
Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391002
12/05/18 05:58 PM
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ouch! welcome to the club!

Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391025
12/05/18 06:19 PM
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Good thing you're in an open Water State! ... Seriously glad you weren't on Ice covered water. I hope you heal fast!


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Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391083
12/05/18 07:25 PM
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"My protruding parts not caught by a trap*****yet****ears, nose, and left testicle." Must be something about the right one that we missed......Hope all goes well for you.....I would never have told anyone....but that is me.........jk


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Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391094
12/05/18 07:43 PM
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OUCH! Hope it heals with no permanent damage!

Chris


>>In God we trust<<
Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391096
12/05/18 07:44 PM
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OUCH!!! that doesn't look good. Never had my hands in a 330 but have had them in 220's a few times. Man I feel for you.

Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Rusty Axe Camp] #6391097
12/05/18 07:48 PM
12/05/18 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty Axe Camp
330 club is tough. 330 Belisle club carries a little *asterisk. Those are some wicked traps. They get my 100% attention when setting those suckers.



I get what you’re saying, but every 280 and 330 deserves our full attention. Reverence is more like it. Imo, belisles are the most user friendly BGs I own. I don’t remember setting a different brand one for beavers in nearly two years. They’re the safest BGs I own, and that’s important to me.


I treat every big BG like a loaded gun. I got a wake up call with a Bridger 330 one night. I put it on a stabilizer to take a picture for this forum actually. I don’t remember why the safeties were off, but they were. I reached nearby to move some grass for the picture, and WHAM! I sure didn’t expect a trap just sitting on the stabilizer to fire, but it sure did. Missed my hand/arm by INCHES.

Never again. I returned to my policy of treating the large BGs like loaded guns. No body parts in the danger zone unless it’s wearing one of Bob Best’s safeties. No exceptions, ever.

I had a turtle in a Belisle 220 one day. I forgot my setters, and of course it was the one day I didn’t have my emergency paracord setters in my back pocket. I pushed the turtle out and managed to get both of my thumbs caught. It wasn’t comfortable (NOTHING like this guy’s plight), but I just could NOT get my thumbs out by pulling. I ended up stepping a H-stand into the levee then put the spring eye on the stabilizer’s arm and compressed a spring. Repeated. Lesson learned there too. Those jaws obly closed inches. I can not imagine a full strike from a 330!


I dang sure plan on keeping my scrote away from em! Good grief, I thought I knew what a bad day was like!

Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391107
12/05/18 07:57 PM
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Ouch, did you cry? I know I would've squeezed a frozen tear or two out. I've been blistered up by some 155s and was ready to swear off conis , can't imagine that brute biting.

Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391117
12/05/18 08:10 PM
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Thanks everyone.... I broke a finger last year and reworked all my traps. I don't know why this one fired, but the setting tongs caused the cut. Here's the Xray

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Last edited by Marty Harmon; 12/05/18 08:18 PM.


My protruding parts not caught by a trap*****yet****ears, nose, and left testicle.
Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391123
12/05/18 08:14 PM
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Please tell the other story.


Important that people know what kind of dangers to avoid LOL

Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391149
12/05/18 08:34 PM
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Owwww! Freaking owwwww!!! That tops anything I did,

Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Hodagtrapper] #6391154
12/05/18 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Hodagtrapper
OUCH! Hope it heals with no permanent damage!

Chris



Ohhhh.....it’s gonnah leave a mark...


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Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391173
12/05/18 09:00 PM
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When I first started trapping I was messing with a new 330 and managed to catch my bare foot, I don't even remember how. The dog spun around and was being driven into the top of my foot. I was yelling at my wife to get the setters and she was laughing so hard she could barely walk across the room, needless to say it really hurt and I learned to be a little more careful.


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Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391220
12/05/18 09:51 PM
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Good thing it was a humane trap!

Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391240
12/05/18 10:12 PM
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Didn't feel humane!


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Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391246
12/05/18 10:19 PM
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Close tight don't they.


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Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391263
12/05/18 10:30 PM
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Secondary use for rubber boots: Catch pee running down leg?

Id fill a knee high Judging by those pics.

Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391296
12/05/18 10:57 PM
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They were made for Canadians for a reason. Lol


Cold as ice!
Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391311
12/05/18 11:09 PM
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Who is handling 330 membership cards this season?

There is a JV league for 220s. I belong to both.

Re: 330 belisle nailed me good. [Re: Marty Harmon] #6391321
12/05/18 11:16 PM
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Yeah, that's gonna leave a mark.


Eh...wot?

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