Ole dale really has gotten in the saddle and has been putting up some great info

Dale has a fantastic channel going with lots of great videos and tons of information.

Wisconsin snare laws are PC gotta be kind to the animals and make sure there comfey.

I agree! Wealth of information!

Great guy to talk to as well ! Asked a question and he messaged me on Facebook to answer it and he's just great to chat with. Really respect the fact he saw bad info being put on on YouTube and he picked up a camera made a channel and stared putting good info out !

Thanks for sharing!

Nice and quick on answering any questions you got.

I've been following Dale on Utube, good guy I met him and talked with a few times.
Very good info he puts out, some things for everyone to learn.
His snareing info alone is going to change my setup.

It's a good watch

The worst way to harvest raccoon, IMO and that's not taking anything away from Dale, either.


I have snared my share of raccoon until I got smart and quit.
Buyers here don't want them and I've actually had a fur buyer throw them out the door on the hood of my truck as I was coming in with another armful.

The raccoon market is trashed right now to start with. To put a burn mark on a pelt that will become a problem area during processing is asking for trouble, as most snared raccoon are 'body snared, due to the fact that the average trapper sets the loop far too large to neck snare a raccoon. Same on beaver.
Because both can be easily neck snared using a loaded snare, faster lock and faster cable.

Half the cable sold to the snare men in this country, is pure garbage !

Dale has some good information but needs to advance his snaring.

Truth

Absolutely no reason for 7-10 inch loops and 7x7 cable on raccoon.

When I snared coon I used 5/64 loaded 6” loop about 5” off walk surface

Watched both about three dozen times till I learned how to get my snare to fire like yours

Consider the following when you snare: coon are not the same size all over the country. Ohio coon have an average size of <12 pounds. A big one might be 18 pounds. In Minnesota, the average is over 17 pounds and a big one is close to 30. Snare height above the trail and size of loop must vary. One size of anything doesn’t fit all and we should know our animals before using bigger than needed loops.

Southern Ohio coon might avg 12. Northern ohio closer to 15.

Loop height and size isn't something you should get rigid with. For open trails you can be, but my loops generally get chosen by the situation.

Half my coon and 3/4 of my beavers last year were snared. The buyer didn’t bat an eye about snare marks. He had an order for many thousand finished coon and a felt market for beavers and took everything I had.

I use 5/64 7x7 like Dale uses. I check daily. Everything is usually alive. The beavers are all on 10 ft extensions and are not stressed. They’re all neck caught. The coon are usually tangled up in surrounding sticks and stuff. I understand some states don’t allow tangling. But here we can. I don’t recall more than 1 or 2 having a snare mark any more definite than what you’d see with a 220.