So tell me the bennifits of a 24 hr. Check please .
Or do you fell someone let the ball bounce. ????

More chances for the trap to work.
Quicker response to theft.
More time outdoors. Just to name a few

The laws where put in place to ease the stress of the animal. Most stress out when daylight comes. You have to remember everyone doesn't live where the animal has frozen to death is stiff waiting to be collected.

But if he is dead frozen to death does it matter if by bullet or frozen .
Dead is dead ,,,tell me what you believe ,because I believe most wish they had a longer check honestly
Because someone dropped the ball .

That could be part of why the 24 hr laws were put in place but I disagree with that premise. As matter of fact, I think agreeing with it gives ammo to the antis.

48hrs is a blink compared to how long it takes a critter to starve, die from disease, freezing or other natural causes. Hundreds and hundreds of critters lay on the side of the road for days waiting to die after being hit by cars. I submit that being restrained in a trap, relatively un injured for 48 hours is a far better death in human terms anyway, than most of the deaths critters have waiting for them.

Used to run a three day check in Wy. For the lower numbers of animals there, it was more productive for the trapper than running more empty traps. Many times a set may only be visited a couple time a week by a predator on his rounds. A trapper running a hundred miles a day would be at the set checking it twice to three times more than the predator that lived there! As for the animals, most yoou could not see any difference in their reaction to you when you approached the set, whether he was in the trap one or three days. Occasionaly you would see one that acted more tired, but that was very rare, mostly with fox. Ks has a once a day check, and if I ran as hard as I did when I was younger, I would hate it, but it's been that way all mmy life, so I abide by it. It is basically xa touchy feely thing for people that arn't trappers. Course you already know all that, Red! lol

Well, it'll keep you from getting fined in Iowa. (With the exception of sets designed to drown, but IMO I'd be ok if that was private ground only since it gets abused in my view.)

I agree with 24hr. on public ground ,,,, You wouldn't want people driving/walking by and seeing an animal caught for days, bad PR,,,, However on private ground not so much. I have chased off coyotes from sets by having to come check everyday, so off the road and out of the uneducated public's view they are fine IMO.

Summery, 24hr on public, 48 on private ground, I think is a good compromise.

I am a fan of extended checks and gang setting for lethal sets.Much more efficient to give your traps time to work,also counterproductive visiting sets every day-it interferes with animal movements.Causes unneccesary disturbance.But the biggest advantage by far is being able to run more lines.
Even though it is legal here,I wouldnt leave a live animal in a trap longer than 24 hrs if at all possible.

Oh, by the way, I've never seen an animal freeze to deatth, another common myth! I could go into more detail, but will not on the open forum.

Makes keeping up with skinning and stretching easier, that is of course if you skin every day ha ha. Also any set thats fired or otherwise not in best working order can be addressed daily if needed. More working sets means more chances at fur. Limits time of lunging on stakes/anchors, chewing on traps, something chewing on your good fur. Some of this might not affect how you do things or your set up, but if its a law its not only meant for you it covers a broad spectrum of trappers. Ive always 24 hr checked, give or take a few hours here and there. As with most laws im sure someones pet or obvious neglect to caught animals was the reason it was brought into effect. We all suffer from others stupidity in some way shape or form. I guess I dont mind it so much, anticipation would drive me nuts anyways if I didn’t have to check daily by law. There are definitely times I would rather have a longer time period for traps to soak and ranching makes for some long days that are not always the easiest to get stuff checked.

On extended checks you certainly check traps every day,just not the same ones you checked the day before.

One thing on 24 hour checks most people don’t think about. If you set a trap at 8 AM, you have to check that trap by 8 AM the next day and no later or else you are technically breaking the law. This is the reason Pennsylvania has a 36 hour check law. I forget which state, but I remember reading once the state had a 24 hour check law and a Warden busted a trapper for going beyond the 24 hour limit even though the trapper was checking his traps the next day. The state then apparently changed their wording to limit this chicken crap stuff from happening again. Maybe one of you remembers which state this occurred in.

I will give you that one
I never got anywhere with theft here in PA unless I caught them red handed.
I will be outdoors, just on my other line going the other direction.

i agree with trapset ,

A 24 hour check on land body grips reduces the damage to dead animals in the trap.

Couldn't imagine on my coon line going over 24 hours. Would lose out on a boat load of fur

A 24 hr trap check law here in Alaska would probably get some trappers killed due to weather conditions. That's why common sense prevails here!

Pete

I dont like the daily check thing but I abide by it. It absolutely is just a feel good thing. Animals regularly go a day or two without a drink or a meal. Especially in places like western ks.

I like our each calendar day approach vs 24 hour checks. But a little more time allowed if one-way drowners used.

I don't see how a person could longline on a 24 hour check.....makes no sense to me.