Got some Sauvageau pan triggers for 110 and 220 size traps and put one on a Belisle 220 and it looks and functions very well. Can't wait to test them out. They clip on and have a little trigger system.

where did you find them at?

Only place I could find them was fur harvesters website in Canada. Was not a problem getting them though.

Good to hear. Would like to get some of them also.

I don't know how they compare in cost, but here is another option for body grip pans, from F&T:

https://www.fntpost.com/Products/Triggers+Trigger+Add-Ons/Body+Grip+Expand-A-Pans

Have these pans seen any fur yet? I'm thinking about ordering a couple dozen but haven't seen much for real life reviews.

The expand a pan versions do make the traps pretty sensitive. Do need to have a trigger body that takes the single bolt/rivet. They are too awkward on the double bolt types

Seems like that's an issue with most body grip pans... sensitivity is all over the board. These really caught my eye because the whole trigger system is reinvented. Plus it looks like they allow for just a bit more open space in the trap.

I used them for WY marten trapping. 120's. Barker mink pans. Catch went up. Also caught the ermine that had been stealing my bait. The old ones I have are square

I've always used wooden ones

@ Cumberland s NW. Trappers

I will set some of the 220 size Friday and see how I like them. Trying to get my skinning under control before I add more.

Just a word of caution. I guess that many really like pan triggers but not me. I tried a bunch a decade or so ago and really hated the results. Many skunk(my principle target species) and some smaller coon are very careful with their feet and step over with their front feet and are then hip caught which is a bad result. I quickly abandoned them.

Set your trap closer to the bait so that the target animal is stable at the bait, not moving thru the trap, and triggers the trap with its front feet or head\chest movement while working the bait.

That little marten setup on the ground would be a good way to wind up with a whole bunch of coons caught by a front foot.

That might be so but are not foothold traps also used to catch coon?? If the trap was set back the proper distance from the bait would not the coon have to have its head thru the trap to also reach the bait ?

I have heard lots of guys like these for mink as well

Very difficult to HOLD a coon by a foot in a bodygripper. I can think of only a half dozen times in over 60 years use of body grippers(bought my first 120s in 1958) when I have held one even though I have had hold of dozens. And the destruction is just amazing! I once had what was likely a big coon in a 220 inside a barn. When I arrived my empty trap was hanging from a ceiling beam and a whole lot of that barn and its contents had toothmarks. To get a BIG coons head into a body gripper consistently, the container must be deep, a 6 or 7 gallon bucket is about right, bait wired in top back and an elevated mouth also increases catch rates. Coon have long legs and big ones do not like to lie on their belly to crawl into a box or bucket. They mostly just refuse.

Skunk are considerably smaller than coon on average here but ours in the Dakotas are not little like in some other places. They are easy to catch but I do not like to foot catch them because they are difficult to dispatch without spray. I have taken several thousand skunk in my nearly 70 years trapping and have tried many methods, including the pans on bodygrippers as mentioned above and I eventually concluded that cage traps are by far the best FOR MY purposes where I want all the essence as well as an undamaged pelt. I have seen before where you said that you really liked pans on bodygrippers and in much more limited experience than yours, I found that they work fine for fisher when many of my trigger positions again resulted in hip caught animals. I have tried boxes similar to yours for mink and have caught some with circle triggers BUT I found that i could not set them until it was deep cold/ snow and ice etc in order to avoid catching coon by a front foot.

Thanks for your responce, I appreciate it as my signature statement would indicate.

Cohunt...you'd hold them in Belisles.

I think you are correct 330-Trapper but I really prefer not to catch them by a foot to begin with. Tried many options and for my wants, including how I prefer to treat my catches, we went to cages for as many applications as possible. I do not need super strength or tight jaws for any of my other uses. I have ripped my fingers(sometimes more than a finger) out of many body grippers in my lifetime with just some bruises. Could type much more but will not.