Trying to set up some duke 1 1/2s for mink and muskrat. trying to decide between bend on mink pans or pinch pans. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Wild river trap pans

X2 on Duke 1.5 coilspring traps.

Chris

Great trap, I hae caught half my fur in them. Probaly never caught a rat in one but mink coon and cats and oh yes fox too. One small coyote, maybe my first one I think......jk

MIKE KELLY'S WILD RIVER TRAP PANS ROCK !!!!!

walleyed

I was go get wild river mink Pans, until posted that not worth it for difference in pans , look how much fur worth, not try be negative but if me I spend on somethjng else trapping related ,last season I got some chain an hardware an made up chain drowners, got prebuilt cable slider drowners an lure plus several no .5:size traps

X3

I heard don't make lot significant difference , I think smaller pan better on coon , might help mink a little

When you show up to an empty Trap. You will wish you had Mike Kelly Mink pans on your Traps.

Coonman, YOU HEARD WRONG!!!!!!! Try one dozen and form your own opinion. After you try the one dozen Wild River pans you will outfit the rest of your traps with them.

Trap placement is more important, probly only better for mink, how much are a dz wild river land an fit on duke or bmi or anything ?

I found them online , $29 shipped a dz, wonder if really catch more mink? Maybe, u have catch bunch mink pay a dz shipped, I would think more toe caught or miss coon fire trap when spring it easily on outside jaws with foot not on trap enough but I don't know lot

6 different guys that use them in this post all must be wrong!!! I would make 7, but I am a bit biased!!!

I made the best pan for the most common mink and muskrat traps out there for my needs, because no one else made one that was right. Most of the trappers on this post bought 1 to 4 dozen pans to start. Used them a season and bought one for every 1.5 trap they run.

I'll be number 7, I switched out around 30 doz. or so, just makes a better trap.

Will the fit a #1 Bridger long spring?

U sell an mfg pans ? I not sure they fit bmi but there dbl post, duke single post , so if did buy dz, have be for dukesaz not be best mix a order pans up for single an dbl post pans

Make me #8. Coonman you don't know what you don't know, try a dozen. Don't talk yourself out of it ,try them.

I have 30 dozen Victor, Sleepy Creek, and Dukes and every one has a Wild River pan.
Last ones I bought I picked up from Mr. Kelly at a convention were $20 a dozen.

Put the wild river pans on your traps then heat and weaken the springs and you will have a rat catching trap.

I'll comment on this old wives tale about coon needing a smaller pan due to toe catches/ foot tosses that some theorize will happen with the bigger pans. After running Mikes big pans on my 1.5s for coon I found the exact opposite. I found a higher catch rate and better catch location with coon. I had a friend testing them at the same time on his coon line and found the same as I did.

I'll go out on a limb here and say whomever said Mikes pans don't make significant difference over a stock pan is going by theory and not actual testing on the line.

Beave...You ever try those pans on a weakened spring waxed 1.5? They are perfect for a newer or even half worn WAXED 1.5 as they are a pretty heavy pan. I guess it would depend on how much you weaken your springs.