I used them years back and they said at that time they were illegal in MN. Never had much luck with them

Got an antique Big Ben alarm clock that can be heard from 40 yards lol.

It's a lure. Trappers buy lure of all types to stimulate an animal. Trappers experiment with and test all sorts of items to attract fur bearers. Asafoetida or civet musk a natural prey item where you trap or is it a gimmick? Anybody ever used a predator lure with castor in an area with no beaver around? All I know is they work well as an additive in a scent based lure. Squeaker calls work, too, they just appeal to a different sense. Simply another lure option.

I really don't understand the gimmick comment, as trappers for years have been trying to use what ever to increase their catch rate !

For the most part that had to deal with eyes and nose, they ignore the ears as there was not much way to help them out with that area.

Squeakers got developed late in the seventy's and really progress on from there, I use them really heavy in the 80's until the boom died out and my last one was stolen at a cat set. I decide to develop my own, and came up with something ., asked for volunteers here to test it for me for a whole season. They all gave me great input on my first model. Sold it for years until parts went obsolete.

Then went into the digital mode and have since changed my current model three times. It works, it sell's to three different class of users, trappers, researcher's and biologist's wanting to shorten their waiting time for seeing or taking animals, and trail camera
users who have found that it shortens their time in the field and they do not have to work to find a certain area to set the cameras.

Why trappers have this idea that hearing is not a scent to use against predators for catching them really escapes me, for all the knowledge they put into scent's and bait to bring them in and always fighting to decide which way the wind blows, whether this scent is good on hot days or cold days, when hearing is used all the time just like the nose is, but hearing has a longer range, sight comes into play rarely as a first element in location, but is also used after the animal commits to hearing or scent.

They work I have no doubt in my mind they help with larger catches especially when gang setting an area, they shorten the time for waiting to have your trap visited as well. I make no remarks about a squeaker will catch the critter your sets still have to be made, the units bring the animal to the area and hold them longer for them to investigate further, they tip their caution down as well while concentrating on the noise, which also helps in catching them, they are more likely to concentrate on the noise when close then where they are stepping. I have to many testimonials from first time users and those who have used others before saying they shorten the catch time which gives them more time in the field for other catches and increases catches where used in gang sets, all this equals a great check when prices when all is said and done.

If you don't want to use them fine with me, I never tried to hog tie one up and force one into a persons hands, but they are no more a gimmick than some fancy made lure or bait that has never been there until some one tries it the first time, some way to hold a trap on a perch or any type of anchor made on trail runs you don't want messed up with a catch, some way to hold a snare up.

I don’t trap cows and rarely beaver. Actually there’s quite a few on here that are land trappers only and that probably doesn’t include cows.
Y’all have to remember, just because it’s a certain way where you trap, doesn’t mean everyone else has the same type of trapping geography, lol. Broaden your thinking.

Squeak!!!!!

Now it makes more sense-You dont just sell them,you make them.
Got it.

Boco is real near sighted and if it doesn't happen near him it is BS. I have see him tell people from the deep south how to tap a beaver through the ice. But it was froze up where he lives.

Bozo, you just can't leave well enough alone can ya ? You remind so much of BW it's really incredible !

Never thought he could have a dobble ganger, but here you are !!

I read people on here from the south telling how to trap beaver.Although it is not relevant to me I dont call it bs,unless it is bs.
You are full of BS saying that.

The biggest gimmick to come out in recent years in my opinion is the dog proof trap. I don't use them to avoid dogs. I use them because I can make 5-10 times more sets than footholds in the same amount of time. It is a numbers game. Do I have coons walking by without getting caught? Absolutely, but sooner or later those few will be hungry when they come along the 5-10 times more traps that I have set.

Now you have to resort to calling names like a petulent child,no surprise there.


GIMMICK.

B, how's that you can finish it, lol it's nothing I have not heard others call ya, in fact it is a lot nicer, so I'm not the first, just a continued user, and you don't resort to name calling, really !!

We are all really just children, some younger than others is all !

My perspective might be a bit different if I trapped in an area with a high cat density and a lengthy season open to trapping them with a generous catch limit... say Canada for instance. I'm allowed ONE per season due to low density cat numbers with a season duration that was just adjusted this year to 20 days - used to be only 10. Low density plus short season equals using every option available to me to draw in a cat. Squeakers are included in a few of the sets along with some old somewhat gimmicky CD discs hung up for a visual attractant. I even use canning lids. I refuse to use the glittery tinsel stuff - too gimmicky. LOL

Use whatever tool is available to get the job done in whatever circumstances you're faced with.

GWGjr,, you covered it very well with your last sentence, thats what it's really about when you are serious !

He posts picture trapping beaver in open water, just like they do in the south and it is not relevant, some how. You will never see a guy in the south posting pictures of ice trapping beaver.

Why are so many interested then?

Ok start again I refilled my popcorn.