Got some belisle 120s w coni pans on them. Anyone ever use a bg on its side as a foothold? In my state cant use legholds and bgs must be submerged.

Nope! Always use 110 standing up or 330.

It’s been tried, not a good option.

81 pounder not on purpose though.

I did it once on an educated problem beaver. He avoided all conibears after watching all the others get caught in them. He was coming out on a shallow bank over a couple feet area. Anytime I tried to block him down he would disappear for awhile. Finally I laid the belisle 330 down covering his most used routes up the bank and had him the next day. It’s not something I preferred to do, but it worked this time. Dunlap has a YouTube video talking about using 160s as footholds

If its legal and you choose to do it, make sure that it is on a drowning rig. Too much room for the captured animal to cause undue damage to itself.

Inhumane.
If you want to catch a beaver by the foot use a foothold beaver trap on a positive drowner.

Hmmmm

220s work best on a downer of course. Paw holds do a more consistent job tho.

Some of yall must have used BGs like footholds a lot.......

....Because your opinions on their lack of effectiveness is vastly different from mine.

I do recommend being particular about using 330s like this. Use only in very rural areas.

And use only where legal to do so.

I've seen the results of a beaver caught by a foot In BG trap In a non drowning situation. Use your BGs the way they were Intended to be used.

So a famous trapper who a majority of trappers respect, can’t use a #4 long spring as a body grip? But we can use it as a beaver foot trap on a positive drowner? And a body grip can’t be used as a foot trap on a positive drowner?

Yeah..I don't get the logic either.

I use what's legal and what will do the job. I use the clip on pans, made by Clint Locklear, and made for this purpose. I dont use BGs like this often, but when I need to...I do.

And I am careful where I use these tools...just like I am careful with any type trap used based on the location.

I have used 160 size BG's in place of a foot trap for muskrats set horizontally on rat stands with a carrot for bait. Worked for me but you need to either remove 1 spring or resign yourself to setting 2 springs (time and effort factor) as opposed to a # 1 or 1.5 LS. No experience with anything larger. .................. the mike

I'm not arguing for or against it because I've never done it, I guess I'm just answering questions with more questions really.
But if foot holds are illegal for you, wouldn't setting a BG with foothold intentions be illegal?
I'm also having a hard time seeing how you would bed a body grip as a foothold, seems to me it would turn into a giant jump trap and be likely to fling whatever stepped on your pan halfway across the pond instead of catching it? But I watched cartoons in the 70s, so that may be influencing my ideas of how this would all work out....................

Jeff Dunlaps beaver and otter trapping dvd. He shows it in there how he does it.