Yeah, better do that Mason.

Yeah it’s an old trap we dug out of the barn. We will have to fix it up again.

Such a sissy, real trappers need not of safeties.

wtg mason

attaboy!.. You hang around here someone is going to throw you in the deep end, if you don't get insulted you'll learn stuff....

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.

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

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.

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.

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

good job on the trap

I’m in the 110 club

120 size BG smart the most as they catch fingers not hands or arms. so you may want to practice getting loose from or depressing those springs along with all the larger ones............. the mike

Good advise from the Mike! Plan for the best, practice for the worst! Glad you figured out that 220!

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

That’s an old trap for sure....without the Canadien bend. Those springs got any poop to them ?

And get yah one of these...and use it.

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-

Wax it, it will work a lot easier.

I've waxed 330's, and would not advise it.