Guys those of you that use numbers 9 wire pounded in to how do you find your word after a catch. My coyotes tear the ground up and my number 9 wire vanishes in with all the other sticks and limbs. Any ideas? Thanks

Use something different or put some pink duct tape around the base of It.

Attach the #9 wire to the top of the stake with several wraps under the head. It'll all be in one piece when you get there.

Mine is usually still taped to the snare

Tape is the answer. Tape it to the wire and pink duct tape on bottom. Thanks fellas.

Are you using CRs? If so the taping the stabilizing wire to the snare probably won't stay there In that situation. But It won't hurt to try It.

Taping the bottom end driven into the ground with pink duct tape should do it. Maybe a micro zip tie around support and and snare. No cable restraints.

99% of the time my supports are just bent over and still there. I use galvanize # 9 also. I have taken a trap stake and ran it through the catch circle and metal to metal , whoops there it is !

Good thinking. Thank you

Either drill a hole through or wrap you wire around a railroad spike. They will drive into frozen ground also.

Zim

Can't be done. If its lost its lost. Move on. Life is too short. I hate snaring...
The only reason that losing wires doesn't make me quit is because when I lose one, it means I caught something!

Weld them to your stakes. They will be right there waiting for you.

Lose the wire and drive In a sturdy stabilizer. When you make a catch the stabilizer Is just bent down flat to the ground. And easy to find.

Well ADC some of us can't make lethal sets.

ADC, how long is the rebar on those supports?

I need to make up another 100 + snare supports for next season.

The live catch ones are 24-30" the killpoles are 5'.

That will work but I don't like the flexibility of a single wire wound on to a re bar stake. I want a stiffer set up I feel that If the critter doesn't hit that opening perfect to many snares get pushed aside when using a single wimpy wire for the support. And In most cases won't swing back Into position. The other thing we have to deal with In WI when running CRs Is that we can't be In entanglement situation. But I can stake out In the open and have my stabilizer and snare hanging close to the edge. But not allowing the coyote to get entangled.
WE set a lot of 2 strand barbed wire fences and I can stake the cable out In the open and still set In the trail with my Cr but not allow the coyote to get to the fence.
I wish we could make lethal sets but we have to play the cards were dealt.

Those supports are #9 wire, WELDED to the stake not just wrapped around, they are WAY more solid than any wire bent over and pounded in the ground. If you wanted it even more solid (though not necessary) you could double your #9 and twist it together with a drill before you wrapped and welded it to the stake. They are black annealed wire not the shiny galvanized that you can't wrap and gets so slick no decent support collar will work perfectly on it. In the one unique situation you describe I'd just use a 10" rebar with support wire welded and wrapped on for the support then anchor the snare with a cable stake if I thought I had to set them locations.

I get your drift.
My buddy Is the most bull headed person I know. He still screws around driving a pilot hole then shoving In his 11 gauge wire that flops around In a strong breeze and will hardly hold up the snare. LOL