I am going to get some new snares made and was wondering about your experiences with this cable. I will be using a small camlock and 25# compression spring.

I am not a big snare man but I did try it on a few coyotes. Some chewed right thru it, and it held some but I was not using cam locks.

Don't do it.

It works great if you can get them killed quick with it.

They are a great snare to use that puts coyotes down in a hurry 8' long with or without entanglement it doesn't matter if you have a way ward bobcat ( during season of course ) caught in one chances are good you'll get to re use the snare again I know of folks who buy 8 - 10 dozen at a time and swear by them .

It doesn't matter if it's 1/16" 1x19 or 7x7 a semi tear drop or a semi round loop both will catch coyotes .

Now it's time for me to pop some popcorn and pour a glass of ice tea then sit back and read what the non believers will say ha ha

Allan

You best get the loop size and height right so you get them nearer the head than the shoulders on the neck. They will chew out fast if the cable doesn't do its job. A heavier extension cable with the 1/16 for the loop may help with the chewing if they chew the extension instead but IME they didn't. Smaller western coyotes may kill easier than big dogs of the east. Then there's the lock, kill-springs, entanglement, the coyotes temperament, etc.... nothing is 100%

I don't see the advantage to it unless you really don't want to miss those cats.

Pretty much all i use is 1/16 cable and the senneker system with bridger toothed cams .. 5 ft snare 4ft extension ..most of my stuff is about 85% entanglement ..if your at all worried get the magnum or super magnum springs ..im slowly switching over to the magnums myself

Done with it

I like a 1/16 if its tied high and puts the loc on back of the neck .When I was a kid I used pulled down branches to choke them quick ,now illegal maybe was in the sixties to I ust didn't know about it

Works well for me. Magnum Seneker spring and trigger. killed 571 last year alone with it

If you can't use a good killing lock like a camlock with this spring then don't try it. I also use a camlock with a compression spring 50lb. It isn't ask good as the Magnum Seneker spring but it works just fine with entanglement

I use this too, but why not make your snares 9ft and forget about the extension?

I hate extensions. They get wrecked after the first catch. Making snares with swivels and all the extra is too time consuming and I see no point to it all. My cable costs me 3 cents a foot and I just make mine all one length at 8 to 9 feet.

What are you making your extensions out of? 1/8 extensions lasts about forever. 3/32 lasts a while till you get a few coon in em.

If you want to use the Senneker system, dont think knock off parts are gonna work just fine. And stay away from entanglment, that will not let the spring and trigger do it's job effectively. I have also switched to magnum springs, and will never look back. My snaring experience has shown me that the cable size makes little difference in the chewouts. I've found that if a yote starts chewing, he will chew out of most any cable, and the 1/16 kills enough faster, when set up right, you won't lose anymore than with 3/32. I prefer open pasture trails, with no brush or even heavy weeds to tangle on, set the snare with a support rod with an 11 ga wire welded to it, and a pasture weed or sage to break the outline of the lock and spring. Most of the time, cut the snare off, loop on a new one and rehang in the same place....and catch another coyote. Just make sure to set in places that you won't catch dogs, the most important part, if you wish to keep trapping alive.

Oh, extensions are important. I use a 4-5 foot of 1/16 looped to a ten foot 3/32 extension. What ruins extensions is one again, entanglement. On a bare buffalo grass pasture trail, I seldom have a bend in the extension, unless the support gets in the fray. Most time the yote is ten feet away, stone cold dead.

Tried 5 64 and 3 32nd. Extensions are a pain and I see no value in it. Takes less time with a whole new snare then untangling a mess of cable that can get twisted up when wrapped around trees. Not my cup of tea but each to their own.

Because i dont have big trees as entanglement mostly brush and smaller trees ..so i anchor on the ground with rebar for the most part ,when there is a big enough tree on the trail i anchor to it but always low

(This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) Nube, you got a coyote problem up there? Nice haul! How many acres do you trap to get that many coyotes?

I ran 25 main baits and a couple other places like creek crossings. Not sure how to equate it in land area........
I catch around average of 21 per bait is what I think I had for data. Some I would catch 48 and others a dozen.
I ran 2 lines basically. My big line would take me all day driving from bait to bait and 3/4 a tank of gas in my half ton truck. Check every 5-7 days on average depending on how cold it was. Started off every 4 days when around 0 celcius. Anything past minus 10 they would freeze fast so no worries about green belly.
My other line is close to home. Takes me 3 hrs to check.
Next year I plan on 50 baits and see if I can handle it effectively enough. Shooting for 1000 I think. As long as I can get a bit more permission on some land and make sure I have skinners and bait sources I should be good to go. Should have a couple thousand snares made by summers end for starters.
Was thinking of posting a thread on the ride but not sure if I want to or not. There is good and bad in that