Yesterday when I was checking traps in found one of my 650s that was a blind trail set pulled from its bed and one jaw laying near it. No real disturbance to the ground and a very small amount of short brown hair on the jaw still on the trap. Hair looked to fine to be deer. Looked more like bobcat. Has anyone ever had this happen with a 650? This is my first year using them. I normally use 550s and never had this happen.

Are you saying the trap came apart?

Deer

Deer...and contact MTP directly

need the paul harvey version. the rest of the story

Wierd things happen

There is no rest of the story. Blind trail set, leaf and pine needles littering the trail and no visible tracks or catch circle.

This , if ya want a free replacement.

well I call the Manufacturer first before putting it on tman ....they're Great about things like this. And its rare.

yep, SOP on anything that breaks.

I give them a chance to make good and keep a customer and most companies pull thru, be it S&W or Weaver or MTP or Chevy or Frigidaire or whoever.

I dont think an animal did that. nothing looks misshaped. Looks like somebody squeezed the jaws together with a big pair of water pump pliers or something

I’m not saying it CANNOT happen , but I’ve got over seven dozen MB 650’s and haven’t seen this before . Weird !

Looks to be a fairly new trap , has it ever been set before ?

I don't understand it but the unlaminated jaw version would be more likely to have it happen than laminated or cast.Still,I have never seen it happen.I can tell you one thing,you will get a lot of damage with those unlaminated jaws.They were originally offered for those that wanted to laminate their own.I would never set them again.I had a dozen and ended up replacing the jaws with cast.

Personally,I would fix that one myself.You might try bending the jaw tips up a little.I think the incident was a fluke.I would highly recommend laminating them,though.I rounded the sharp jaw edges on mine and still got probably the worst damage that I have had from any coyote trap.

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Watch trap.shed, I will be selling the 8 I have. I have laminated iaws for them. I traded my mb 450 fox traps for these just to try them and I think I will stick with my MB 550s.

I think a human did it. MB650s are tanks.

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... owner did that to the trap

quite possibly

Yes man made no circle probably was right there when it happened got mad and pulled hard on trap and got the jaw out but couldn't get the trap up.