Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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good point 330 having the handle slip out of your hand when compressing the springs ain't for the faint of heart either
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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I carry a 12" 3/8" rebar with T handle & J bend on bottom. Use both feet to hold trap to ground & first pull up on spring that caught thumb or finger can reach safety latch. Then pull up on other spring to get hand out.
Till that day.....
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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What tools does everyone carry to help get out of one?
thanks Remember when I sent ya to the Basic Sets forum for body grip tuning? Well this info is there too! The coni rope data awaits you there.
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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[quote=eedup] A 220. no, I was doing a water set, my first time for beaver I don’t think I’d set a 220 for beaver, personally.
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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I caught two fingers in a 330 one time. Lost all the feeling in one finger for a month from it. After that if I’m dealing with conibears I am never more than an arm length away from my conibear setting tool, and I’ve needed it a couple times. Buy one, it will get you out of a pickle. Without one, or at least a coil of rope, there will come a time where you are out in the field and you get snapped by one, and you will not be able to get it off. And if you already staked it down, or tied it off, you better hope you can get the stake out with one hand or have pliers to cut the wire. Worst case scenario, you’re stuck there till someone finds you. If someone finds you.
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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[quote=eedup] A 220. no, I was doing a water set, my first time for beaver I don’t think I’d set a 220 for beaver, personally. not big enough?
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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if I’m dealing with conibears I am never more than an arm length away from my conibear setting tool yes, this here is sound advice.
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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12/27/20 01:10 AM
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280s work for beav's, but I wouldn't use a 220. I've used new Bmi's and Belisle 220s in small bankholes, but that was years ago. Now I use 280's if there's a small bankhole
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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I have caught beaver in 220s before but I wouldn’t set them intentionally for beaver.
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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12/27/20 11:08 AM
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OUCH!, one of the loops came off of a 220 conibear and I had forgot my safety device, I was able to wiggle my thumb out, nothing broken though.What tools does everyone carry to help get out of one?
thanks Did the same several years back , but mine happened when taking a coon out of it. I had to drive home with it on my thumb though , so I could use a piece of rope to decompress the spring. I couldn't feel nothing for 2 months in that thumb.
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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12/27/20 01:20 PM
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220's hurt worse than 330's. My sympathies.
I agree with others, I've caught lots of beavers in 220's but the bigger ones did a lot of rolling before succumbing. Go with the bigger body grippers.
Last edited by beaverpeeler; 12/27/20 01:21 PM.
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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thumb hurts more this morning, I am an idiot LOL We all make mistakes Its what you learn from your mistakes the matters And we all make mistakes. That was with an NHRA duke#3 some time back.
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Re: just caught my thumb in a conibear
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