Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: Jonesie]
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06/10/20 05:16 PM
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I showed a video at the snaring school last Jan of a big coon walking right through a 3/32 7x7 standard load, 7 inch loop, 7 off the ground. Let's see the video. There has to be more to the story. What was the support wire? Where was the lock in respect to the loop (top, side, bottom?) What lock? What is a "big coon"? What's a "standard load"? There's no way a 3X coon is stepping up through a 7" loop, 7" off the ground with a good solid support and not getting caught unless there were some awfully extreme missteps by the trapper, no way.
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: scotiantrapper]
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06/11/20 10:49 AM
06/11/20 10:49 AM
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"IF" I ever cought a XXXXL . I'd make a pack animal out of it.
Around here a XXXL .Is one you tie on the hood of your truck and drive around with it all day.
South Jersey Trapping and Snaring School January 19-20-21 2024 NEWT -----------------OVER---------------- www.snareone.com
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: Newt]
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06/11/20 01:37 PM
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"IF" I ever cought a XXXXL . I'd make a pack animal out of it.
Around here a XXXL .Is one you tie on the hood of your truck and drive around with it all day. That is why it's easier for me to neck snare coons. Some of our XXL coon are early born young of the year.
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: scotiantrapper]
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06/15/20 05:48 PM
06/15/20 05:48 PM
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ADC wrote Thanks! wink Exactly what I thought you'd reply. Too bad you guys are stuck on that wimpy support wire lol. 10 o'clock is pretty far over too, 11 is a lot better IMO. No need to neck snare them dinky 1x coons, they aren't worth the cost of the snare. laugh
I'm getting too old to bend 9ga. wire
South Jersey Trapping and Snaring School January 19-20-21 2024 NEWT -----------------OVER---------------- www.snareone.com
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: Newt]
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06/16/20 01:18 AM
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ADC wrote Thanks! wink Exactly what I thought you'd reply. Too bad you guys are stuck on that wimpy support wire lol. 10 o'clock is pretty far over too, 11 is a lot better IMO. No need to neck snare them dinky 1x coons, they aren't worth the cost of the snare. laugh
I'm getting too old to bend 9ga. wire
Newt you and me both are too old and stubborn to change anything we do snaring wise. lol Hopefully some young guys will see there's more than one way to skin a cat.
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: SNIPERBBB]
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06/16/20 07:01 AM
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Don't need to bend 9 wire much, Newt. Go raid a tobacco farm or tomato farm for the stakes and make you a bunch of quick supports. Put whammies or tubing on the snares. Before I carry all that stuff. I'll QUIT snaring.Most of my snaring is done in or around Salt Marshes. Walking is the only way to get there. IF I had road side locations. I would probly change my metho
South Jersey Trapping and Snaring School January 19-20-21 2024 NEWT -----------------OVER---------------- www.snareone.com
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: scotiantrapper]
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06/16/20 08:43 AM
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I like a sturdy stabilizer. I have my stabilizers lazer cut out of 1/4" steel. They have 2 holes cut in them so I can feed my 11 gauge wire through to support the snare. I drive them into frozen ground with little effort. And with a bend up or down I can lower or raise my loop.
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: Newt]
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06/16/20 09:22 AM
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Don't need to bend 9 wire much, Newt. Go raid a tobacco farm or tomato farm for the stakes and make you a bunch of quick supports. Put whammies or tubing on the snares. Before I carry all that stuff. I'll QUIT snaring.Most of my snaring is done in or around Salt Marshes. Walking is the only way to get there. IF I had road side locations. I would probly change my metho Almost all my trapping is walking only. Sometimes upto a mile. I can carry 2-4 dozen quick supports depending which I'm using in a pack basket or bucket easily that far.
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: scotiantrapper]
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06/18/20 06:46 AM
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SNIPERBO Walking on the edge or on the Salt marsh (meadows is what we call'm)You nead both hands free. There is no way you can get a pack basket through,with anything that is not all the way in the pack basket
ofcourse you could cut a trail to walk on. But that would be too much work for what you would gain. We have to adjust to our terain. Teacher been here. At our School he walked it
Last edited by Newt; 06/18/20 06:47 AM.
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: scotiantrapper]
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06/18/20 03:09 PM
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You can't use BGs when trapping chucks? A 160 RBG with only one spring with a spike for the rivet stuck In the den entrance and a rod shoved through the spring and your good to go. 2 min tops.
But your absolutely right by doing what ever suits the situation.
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Re: Snaring Coons
[Re: scotiantrapper]
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06/19/20 03:41 PM
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We all assume whoever is talking here is talking about our conditions. I’ve been to the SouthJersey Snaring and Trapping school. The terrain is 100% different. A coon Newt had hanging in his shop was pathetic compared to a Minnesota coon, but the red fox they have out there really put ours to shame, color-wise. And yet I learned a lot. It was good, practical information applicable to the Midwest and every other part of the country.
Ron Jones and I have emailed extensively on the difference between trapping fur and nuisance animal removal. If I don’t catch something (fur) it’s no big deal except it hurts my pride. But an ADC guy who doesn’t catch a specific animal doesn’t get paid, and this makes it a big deal.
The three instructors have all trapped fur and do ADC work. Their methods are worth putting to use because this is how they make a good portion of their livings. When Ron and Newt and Morgan Bennett write something, I follow it very closely.
Never too old to learn
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