I love to use longsprings for beaver, coon, and muskrats and I want to try some on land. What is the best dls for coyotes and foxes?

3ns

3n’s are my favorite.

#2

Livestock Protection Company - Alpine Texas for new ones
Newhouse for older ones

Blake and Lamb #3 if you can find them,I have a few laminated and Paws I Trip pans nice set up.

Yep
Followed closely by sleepy creek, B&L, victor. Bridger. They all work

If foxes are possible catches a #3 trap with offset jaws. I've never used 3ns.

If you will be dealing with a lot of domestic animals I wouldn't recommend double long springs. Releasing them will be difficult.

3 dls is too much trap for fox-even our big foxes here.

Years ago #3’s were illegal here based on the nomenclature not the jaw spread. We also had only fox. I would not have used them even if legal. Now, there are so few fox you are setting for coyote or cat. I reach for them a lot on these strip pits and woody ridges. I get a kick using what were “western traps” on a drag anymore.

#2 Blake&Lamb dls

2 coil spring !!!

blake and lambs all the way #2 for the foxes and #3 for the yotes if you are stuck on useing long springs ,just my opinion banchee

2s or 3s will work on both.
Jim

I like longsprings myself but I would compare them to using a long bow when you could be using a rifle. You also have to bear in mind the jaw spread is a size smaller than that of a coil. So a #2 dbl. Long spring has the same jaw spread as a #1 1/2 coil and a #3 dbl. Long spring is usually the jaw spread of a #1 3/4 coil. While a #2 long is ideal for fox and #3 long is ideal for coyote I would not recommend targeting both in either one. The #2 is just too small for coyote and the #3 with the big springs on them are just too rough on fox.

Unfortunately there are really no options in either size as far as current traps being produced. The #2 Victor longsprings were good for fox except there was no pan adjustments bolt. Same for the #3 which were ok for coyote.

I wouldn't use the 3n on Fox myself.There's one gentleman on here ,I believe from Nebraska,that has used the No.2 longspring on coyote now for years.I'd consider them.

I have never heard anyone mention the above, but it is a real reason, and a reason I am very particular of locations where I deploy a long spring trap. I can hear it all now, "I have permission, the dog does not" etc. I am not as concerned about letting a non target myself, although it would not be as easy as a coil spring. I am more concerned about some person walking their dog, catching the darn dog, then the owner trying to release the dog. That is going to be a workout and in my opinion it is going tough for the average person to 1. Figure it out 2. Be strong enough to break the trap down.

Yes I understand the trapper may have the right to be on the land. I have absolutely zero confidence in out legal system. The reasons are many. But when police are not allowed to bet police and have to kiss someones hind end of it is a dark color, or expect to be called racist or other names for stopping the blanking criminals, you can see the country swirling around the bowl. Judges turn butt holes loose all the time. You constantly hear of ludicrous judgements brought forth by the weak liberal communist judges.
This country is not what it once was.


Mac