Re: How to fix?
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07/10/20 08:00 PM
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MySide 🦝
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You better fashion some safeties for that trap before you hurt yourself. Yeah, better do that Mason.
All for the Greater Glory of God
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: ~ADC~]
#6926378
07/10/20 08:06 PM
07/10/20 08:06 PM
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Joined: Nov 2015
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Catch22
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You better fashion some safeties for that trap before you hurt yourself. Such a sissy, real trappers need not of safeties.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: Gone Trappin.]
#6926478
07/10/20 09:19 PM
07/10/20 09:19 PM
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Joined: Jan 2014
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52Carl
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I'm 62 years old and have trapped 50 of those years. I have a Bridger 330 with the funky jaw bends and the wide safety catches and ridiculously strong springs. both springs are stuck like yours, but jammed tight against the unmovable wide safeties. Maybe I'll send it to you so that you can get that one unstuck. Its laying on the floor, unused, mocking me. I'm half scared to use it. If I got caught in it and it jammed up like that, I'd have to gnaw out. You can have my man card. I'm about done with it anyways. Not much left to prove to anyone.
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: Catch22]
#6926622
07/10/20 11:10 PM
07/10/20 11:10 PM
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~ADC~
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You better fashion some safeties for that trap before you hurt yourself. Such a sissy, real trappers need not of safeties. You're in no position to be calling the kid a sissy, you wussy. Oh, and while I'm scolding you guys, upstate stole my "hit it with your purse" line. lol
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: 52Carl]
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07/10/20 11:17 PM
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Joined: Feb 2020
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Gone Trappin.
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I'm 62 years old and have trapped 50 of those years. I have a Bridger 330 with the funky jaw bends and the wide safety catches and ridiculously strong springs. both springs are stuck like yours, but jammed tight against the unmovable wide safeties. Maybe I'll send it to you so that you can get that one unstuck. Its laying on the floor, unused, mocking me. I'm half scared to use it. If I got caught in it and it jammed up like that, I'd have to gnaw out. You can have my man card. I'm about done with it anyways. Not much left to prove to anyone. I just jam my foot in the v of the spring and pull up HARD till I got one arm of the spring in the correct location then it’s pretty easy to move the other arm of that same spring in place.
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: Gone Trappin.]
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07/10/20 11:28 PM
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Joined: May 2020
Posts: 279 Water Valley, Mississippi
cheechako
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Don’t let these bunch of adult children get to you Mason. I admire your grit and your want to. I wish I had known about all this when I was 15 and had this site as a resource.
The trapper formerly known as sanfo008
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: Gone Trappin.]
#6926660
07/10/20 11:45 PM
07/10/20 11:45 PM
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Posts: 11,909 MT (Big Sky Country)
Allan Minear
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Mason when you're out setting the 330's keep about 10-12' of 5/8" Derbyshire line / lead role wrapped around you're waist tie a bowline in one end so if you do catch yourself you can slide the rope through the spring eyes while your foot is in the loop toss the other end of the rope over your back while bending over the trap, grab the end of the rope while standing up compressing the spring put on the safety and repeat on the other side if needed.
When trapping with conibear traps it's not a when you'll get yourself caught but hold deep inside the jaws, everyone joins the 330 or the conibear club sooner than later ha ha I've been caught more than I care to think about. Allan
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: Allan Minear]
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07/11/20 07:33 AM
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Gone Trappin.
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Mason when you're out setting the 330's keep about 10-12' of 5/8" Derbyshire line / lead role wrapped around you're waist tie a bowline in one end so if you do catch yourself you can slide the rope through the spring eyes while your foot is in the loop toss the other end of the rope over your back while bending over the trap, grab the end of the rope while standing up compressing the spring put on the safety and repeat on the other side if needed.
When trapping with conibear traps it's not a when you'll get yourself caught but hold deep inside the jaws, everyone joins the 330 or the conibear club sooner than later ha ha I've been caught more than I care to think about. Allan I’m in the 110 club
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: Gone Trappin.]
#6926845
07/11/20 08:04 AM
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Macthediver
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Mason I think SniperB can fill you in on being a young guy here..Might a been about same age as you when first started getting beat up here. Stick it out you'll learn.
Mac
"Never Forget Which Way Is Up"
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: Gone Trappin.]
#6926905
07/11/20 09:16 AM
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Nessmuck
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That’s an old trap for sure....without the Canadien bend. Those springs got any poop to them ?
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: How to fix?
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#6926921
07/11/20 09:47 AM
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Posts: 6,700 Newark, Ohio 83 years
Actor
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I've been out on the line and had a 220 or even a 120 get stuck like that. The main cause of this is the rust.... I have always found if I dunk them in the water a couple of time it lubricates them enough you can them slide the other end of the spring into position. Take some good heavy emery cloth and clean some of the rust off. You might even want to spray down with WD-40, to help removed the rust and then sand jaws and springs. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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Re: How to fix?
[Re: Gone Trappin.]
#6926922
07/11/20 09:48 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 13,153 Central Pennsylvania
Nittany Lion
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Wax it, it will work a lot easier.
I got myself a seniors' GPS. Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination, it tells me why I wanted to go there.
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