Old guys sometimes have trouble setting them too.

Till your hand strength builds up and technique improves you can cheat and use a pair of these.............they slip over the levers and give you a lot of leverage advantage. Lots of options like these on ebay.



Trap setters.........

Practice it get easier. It's tough but my boys are 10 and 12 and can set them with a lot of effort.

Just use setters. I am 56 and have to use them due to arthrits.

Would a beaver bodygrip trap setter be able to set a coilspring?

You can buy setters for coil springs. They slip onto the levers and give you log handles to push on. They give you added leverage also. Would be a great tool for one your age.

Pofarmer10..
Ask your parents if you can send me your address in PM.. and well send you a pair of coil spring setters.. They're actually lever extenders..they'll extend the levers 6to 8 inches or so and they make it easier to set the coilsprings because you can use your knees or feet to push the levers down..they enable you to put more pressure on the levers so they're easier to set.

Another thing..if I were you I'd target coons or rats to start because they're somewhat easier to catch and there's more of them.by doing that you will build your confidence as as you start to catch animals and.it will.enable you to become familiar with the trapping process..

Shoot..I yell you what.. just ask your folks if we can send ya a few traps.

Jerrys got some 1.5 Victor's he's not gonna be using and wed be glad to send you some to help you start out.

They're for coon, fox,rats and mink

I am 80 and if I stand on them I would fall over. My beaver traps I set on the tail gate of the truck and then block them so they can not go off, then go to the creek.......jk

I'm 67 years old with some arthritis. I use trap setters for most traps. Practice. You'll get it.

Buy some Duke DP’s and when you can set those by hand a coil spring will be nothing to set.

You've been on this forum for 5 years...and you ain't figured it out yet ?

How did a 6yr old join, lol? Said he’s only 11 and joined in 2017?

Yup...go figure

Maybe using his brother's account?

Kids are computer savvy nowadays.

Hands! unless its a 750

Here ya go bud.

That's the point that so many miss. I don't post much on newbie threads because the left imo is getting in. Remember back in the 70's when no one would help ya because it would be in their opinion less food or money for them?

I can respect that, but now it's a new world. My opinion, 75% of the newbies are data collectors, antis. I catch heck about it, but here we are. To the OP, I'll answer your question. Back in my day you wouldn't get served at a bar if you couldn't see over the bar. If you can't set a trap, like I did at your age, then wait till you can if your a trapper.

I use trap setters for coil springs. Just a city girl living on a farm...but the older I get, I find I'm just not a strong as I used to be too.

@ Cathryn
That's a most generous offer for this young trapper!

@Pofarmer10
Even now, I use setters for my MB 650s; I can set them with my feet, and I do use my feet to release a none target animal. I'll admit setting them by hand is a major struggle, setters are so much easier to use with their mechanical advantage.

Why is it that there always has to be someone who makes it their business to try to knock someone down when they may not..and more than likely..dont have the whole story?

Maybe he's on an account that was made 5 years ago by a sibling or even his dad ..who may have decided he wasn't interested in trapping after all..and hes using that account.

My bottomline.is..I don't care if he's 6,11,25,40, or 60.

We have an extra setter and some traps that aren't catching anything hanging in the shed.

I'm not stupid..I thought he might not be legit but I choose to believe he is and that's my business.

I look at it like I look at the people that hold up the cardboard signs wanting help.

I often will give them maybe 10 bucks or buy them a meal. If they're lying they know I don't.

I look at it like the Bible says..I do what I feel is right and help everyone I can..if they're lying about their situations that's between them and God.

I've done what I feel like I should do as a compassionate person. And I won't have to answer for my being unfeeling and unkind on judgement day.

I'm far from perfect and do t claim to be perfect but I've learned alot over the years.

I'm no sucker. I believe that if I do what I can to help someone God will Bless me.

I can't know or read someone else's mind or heart and if they're lying they'll have to Deal with God.

I won't have to stand and answer to God when he might say.."you remember that lady standing at McDonald's with her daughter and the sign..asking for help..just for food..in ohio that you drove right by and wouldn't even.make eye contact with? That was ME testing you and you failed"

I had Jerry to stop and I gave her the food we had just bought and I slipped her 20 bucks.

Jerry is more cynical about that than I am but occasionally he will even stop and give someone a few dollars.

If they're using it for drugs, that's their business I did what God put on my heart to do. And that's how I view this..the offer still stands.

Send me your address and I'll send you a pair of setters and some traps.

And as for the argument that Antis join to get info? Maybe they do but they don't have to join to find evidence if they want it..to use against trappers... I see stuff posted on here all the time that antis could use against us and they don't have to register or be logged in to get it.

Jerry doesn't have an account and he reads on here all the time. And he could Copy and paste anything he wanted to if he knew how.

And I also see people on here all the time..not just newbies...people who have been registered for 10 plus years....who don't know there butts from a hole in the ground..you can tell by their posts..but it's not up to Mr to call BS on all of them all the time.

We have helped several trappers starting out..of different ages...and we I'll continue to do so.

We need all the trappers we can get.

If we help 10 people and even 1 goes on to further trapping in a positive light. I'm happy.

So pofarmer10.

Send me your Addy and we'll get ya started on the right track.

And you know your heart. Don't let anyone, if you're doing right,discourage you.

I look forward to hearing from you.

And all yall that think I'm getting played. Keep it to yourself because it's what I think that matters on this issue and I think..no ..I KNOW ..that all it takes is one person to show interest in someone and to help them..

That interest can make all the difference in the world to them

And if it is a scam..what am I out? 30 or 40 bucks?

I can afford the risk.