good point 330 having the handle slip out of your hand when compressing the springs ain't for the faint of heart either

Tip; big conis in water, don't tie off trap until last

If you end up with both paws caught you can still walk out.

Don't laugh I know a guy that had to drive for help with a 330 on both hands, and no it wasn't me.

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.

Thats a replacement spring on mine in that photo. From a hardware store

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.

I don’t think I’d set a 220 for beaver, personally.

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.

not big enough?

Here’s a link from a post a while back. Pics of getting arm out of 330 with an RTS Setter on page 3.
https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/7081973/re-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-did#Post7081973

280s work for beav's, but I wouldn't use a 220.

yes, this here is sound advice.

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

I have caught beaver in 220s before but I wouldn’t set them intentionally for beaver.

thumb hurts more this morning, I am an idiot LOL

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.

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.

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.

LOL

Yep been there with a 330, I can tell you from experiance it will feel better when it quits hurting.