My thought exactly. Surely one of Dukes employeea could come up with an original name.

I believe the Beav said they were and that it would be out shortly.Thats why I'm suspicious about this post.

Photo looks edited or photoshopped

Might just be a proto photo. IDK

Duke....the Savage firearms company of trapping.

This Is no joke they will be out by this convention season.

Not to digress too much but what did Savage do?

The only thing that is keeping me believing is those swivels. It would take a lot of work to photoshop those thin things in there, and would take a lot more thinking the we know Beav can do to think out that small part.

That's what my post was about. The pictured trap still had Dukes crappy swivels (which I always replace).

Same price as the MB if you find it on sale (cabelas) or used. Seems like a lot if guys will stick with the MB at that price. Around 150/dz they would move a lot more i think.

im not a duke fan but they have been around the block a time or two and outlasted several good trap manufactures. Kbs were ten times the trap of any duke, but dukes still going! The square pan will be enough to fight copy rite infringement. Their #2 square jaw is a knockoff off a bridger /northwoods. Appears to me duke has it out for cavens. I cant imagine their customer service can be half as good as mtp.

Help me out, which part of the MB550 is patented?
At first glance all the parts look like things that have been used forever, by many trap builders.

I heard that duke was also going to be coming out with a step down paws i trip pan # 2 trap this year.I heard Duke was working with Ed a few months ago on both traps but I haven`t heard for sure if they are moving forward with both traps or not.Have you heard anything on that Coonduke?

I just hope they have a BIG stock pile when they do go on the market.

I don't use 550 only because I don't like traps that small but my experience with Duke foothold isn't good I lost enough cats in 1 season outta there copy of the #2 Bridger that I could have bought a couple more dz no bs traps there quality of metal is sub par to amircan steel by far

I'm am probably gonna stick with mtp.

I'm going to stick with MTP until they improve their trap...thereby ruining it. I love the MB 550.

wonder what the jaw spread is? same as the MB550? I have and use several dozen MB550's wish they had a bigger jaw spread but they are a great trap

Is it so far out of the realm of possibility for MTP to be wholesaling the parts of the MB's to Duke, and then Duke working some mass production magic to still build the traps and make a profit on them?

Not sure if that is happening, but I don't see why not. Then MB would still be making a bunch on the MB trap design.

That Isn't happing.

Isn’t the 550 part mean the jaw spread is 5.5 inches, mb450 have a 4.5 inch jaw spread...same goes for the sterlings and kB 5.5. Isn’t that where those numbers come from? So a bigger jaw spread would mean to get like a mb650 I believe. Also people were saying that they copied the name 550 cause of the MB’s but they are just saying the size. I’d definitely try them