Re: #11LS vs #1.5CS
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07/09/20 01:44 AM
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Must be talking about Hal Sullivan....lol LMAO! That's so spot on!
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Re: #11LS vs #1.5CS
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07/09/20 02:31 AM
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If you pinch a finger in an 11, you’ll have a nasty time getting out of it. But a finger caught in a 1 1/2 coil will be easier.
Both have their place. The 1 1/2 coil has more jaw space and can take a bigger pan if you want to add one. Spring wise tho, the #11 springs will outlast the 1 1/2 coils by many, many years.
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Re: #11LS vs #1.5CS
[Re: Gone Trappin.]
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07/09/20 10:43 AM
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I don't like the small pan size on the #11. I prefer a 1 1/2 sized trap where I can add a larger after market pan. And That makes the 1 1/2 a better mink trap and a better rat trap. A #1.75 or a #2 with the larger pan would even be better. If you have deep pockets you can go out a buy 40 different traps and different styles and sizes and different trap brands. And you'll end up completely confused with trying to figure out what trap to use.
We all know the holding power of the #11 but there are better traps that will fill more of your needs. For the beginning trapper you can't beat the 1 1/2 coil spring trap. Learn to use that one trap and you will come way out ahead of the game. Having six different trap's In the back of the truck and trying to decide what trap to use at that location Is fools play. I was never a DBL spring advocate. They are hard to place at blind sets where your are limited as to space. They don't set well on my rat stools. It's a pain to dig a bed for the larger ones In frozen ground. They do bed well but you still have to dig the hole.
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Re: #11LS vs #1.5CS
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07/09/20 11:28 AM
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If you pinch a finger in an 11, you’ll have a nasty time getting out of it. But a finger caught in a 1 1/2 coil will be easier.
Both have their place. The 1 1/2 coil has more jaw space and can take a bigger pan if you want to add one. Spring wise tho, the #11 springs will outlast the 1 1/2 coils by many, many years. I rember that last fall, now that u say that, stand in close knee deep water in cement culvert inside. Had 11s on outside ledge , wire off to cement block, left gauntlet in trap an used feet to set dbl, have gotten caught to many times. Not want get caught in new no.5 coil, I rember last fall get finger caught in a newer 3 coil that I put 4 coils on, clear mud out under pan an between pan an jaw, bare handed. I do that lot after bed trap, kept go at it after catch finger. Caught beaver next day, get whacked by BMI 160 magnum on fingers, stung most , happen more once, 330s are something to be very careful handling, use some but not lot
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