I'm glad you found him!

We lost one last year only to catch him a week later in another set . Have him I trail camra so I know it is same one .

That is awesome to hear! Glad you were able to recover him!

Very nice. What pistol you shooting there?

Ruger LCR 22, nice little revolver that carries easily in a pocket.

Right on. Soon you’ll post about catching ol’ Toeless too I think. I shot a wolf one year with a missing foot about 2 weeks after it ran away with another guys trap on it. It’s foot must’ve still been sore because it fell behind the pack right away. Good job man.

Nice job on the recovery congrats

That's good news !!

Nice work on the recovery of #6 Nate. These grapples and drags are pretty new to me and not liking the fact that some will travel with them. My #7 would have be hard to find if it would have snowed and wind blew and he was only 200 yards. At least the one missing 2 toes isn't wearing the snare. Keep up the good work.

Man thats some impressive distance he covered with a trap and two drags. Way to stick with it and find him.

Great job! I'm glad you had closure with that one. I hope you get the other one later.

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Congrats on finding #6, glad you didn't give up.

I don't generally carry a camera on the line because I'm always worried about something pulling free just as I'm walking up to it. But I do love seeing other people's pics of catches.

I was in Anchorage this weekend, so my partner ran the line and we had some more success. A couple cats and wolves. This is #7, about 75 lb female. This is the same pee post set I got that one at a couple weeks ago that took me awhile to find. You can see I have a good sized green black spruce pole there, still made it a little ways before hooking up. Not sure what the deal is with toes this year, but this one was caught by one toe in a #9. Lucky it hadn't been there too long or I might have had an addition to the anonymous digit collection.

Another note, don't turn your back on a wolf when you are in it's catch radius. When you do and you hear it coming, don't turn your head to look cuz you might trip on a tussock and have it snapping at your boot when it hits the end of the chain!



Holding, but not by much! Might have to send this back to the manufacturer for some timing adjustments!



This is #8 about a 70 lb female. Blind trial set with a #9, kinda funny to catch by a back foot in that situation.

NIce! A catch is a catch! You think it could be because of the snow conditions? With the fluctuating temps here we been getting a pretty solid crust. Congrats on the critters!

Nice job !! Is that second one looking 'springy' ??

Not as bad as that picture looks. Kinda matted down and dirty from rolling around in the dirt there, but decent hair.

Good to see you giving those 9's a workout!

First off nice work Nate. Second... Don't get inside the catch circle with a live wolf. As for the toe catches, I think a lot of that has to be with foot placement to trap placement. IMHO.. I believe when an animal steps on the spring ear and the pan at the same time, the foot gets pushed out resulting in a miss or toe catch. Pan tension is another factor to enter into the equation. This year I've lightened up some pan tension to help with the freeze thaw conditions and seem to still be getting full paw catches but also coyotes trigger the set too. Anyway, keep it up as you are doing something right.

Nice job