What size chain is everyone using for super stakes for coyotes?
#2 seems to be the standard from what I’ve seen?
Anyone ever had a coyote break #2 chain?
I guess if you were going to break it it would be while pulling it and not from a coyote?
What’s your experience been?
Thanks

I use number 3 just because it’s what is already on my traps. Also like you said little stronger for when retrieving them. But number two will hold just fine even save you a little bit of weight in the back of the rig.

Think the chained super stakes I bought was #2. Haven’t tried pulling with a F150, but it will stand a 4-wheeler on end and not break. It didn’t come up either, lol. Chain has been there for 4 years now and gets tested and set every season. That spot is always good for a couple coyotes and a bobcat every season.

Mine have #2 chain. I have broken it, with 4 feet of cheater pipe and nearly giving myself a hernia. No coyote on the face of the earth is gonna break it.

I break #2 chain like a twig with my stake puller and have broken #3 a time or two, granted my soil isn't really soil it's more rock.

Mine get #3 chain only. I even have some old stakes that you can visibly see how the #2 has stretched and is almost broken

Holy cow, I thought my 4-wheeler was sorta strong, lol. It just stands on end with a winch. I don’t have a cheater bar, but to be honest if it takes that much trouble I’d leave it, or will now use a drag.

I have a bunch that I bought with #2 chain still, but as I've been replacing anchors I've been going to all #3 chain. I've snapped both with my stake puller, and sometimes pull with the pickup, so I like the added insurance of #3

You gotta really want them to get them back here! I drill down beside them with my auger the best I can and that helps a lot, but when I am pulling I have about 1 in 12 that I will break somehow. I have even broken #3 when driving them in before. I guess the middle of the chain was on a rock and I beat it so hard I cut the chain

I messed with drags a little bit but I dispatch everything with a death ray and it is really interesting to get a bobcat, gray fox, or a spunky coyote in my death ray when they have 10+ feet of chain to dance around on

I’m banking they’ll be so wrapped up in the brush that they’ll about be stuck, lol. Besides, Georgia Law “requires” dispatch with a .22LR.

I use a drill and auger as well. About the only time I have issues is Summer time trapping when that clay turns to cement. I’ve taken a few gallons of water to retrieve when it’s been dry a while. Drill as far as I can and pour water and move to the next and repeat. Then make my way back and drill some more and hopefully pull. Not every set is in that kind of dirt, thank God!!! That’s when I’ll really utilize the drags. Plus I’ve never caught one on a drag so I’m experimenting now. Just have one set out with one, hoping it’ll connect. Just waiting for it to come back through.

I have broke #2 ONCE pulling a trap from frozen ground with a stake puller.

Only use #7 chain, don't have to worry about anything breaking it

If my ground gets hard before I have a chance to pull I’ll break #2 really easy! #3 or larger all the way for me !

A coyote isn't going to break #2 which is what I use. I have broke some with my puller in frozen ground with my puller but u really have to try to brake it. I try to just wait tell the ground is thawed or not frozen too deep.

I run #5 chain. #3 is sufficient, but we have wolves, lions and bears (I don't think any of them would break #3 either, but #5 is a little added insurance). Most of mine are attached with welded swivels, so they don't come off the trap (I usually carry bolt cutters when pulling in case I can't pull some and need to cut them) but I often attach a drag to the chain just above the earth anchor, and a 1/4" quick link will fit through #5 chain but not #3.

Downfall is, you aren't breaking #5 chain if you can't pull it, so you need something to cut it if you don't have a quick link or other way to detach it.

Not to hijack but I have a question on the way chain sizes are labeled

Here at work we have a large inventory of chain that our electric department and tree trimming crews use. We have both US made and foreign made in our inventory

The US made chain gets larger as the size gets smaller, think wire gauges or shotgun gauges. So #2 american chain is larger than #5 american chain

The foreign chain is the other way around. #5 would be larger than #2.

Is the american chain we are being sold really american?

The only place I have seen chain sold by the # sizes like all the trappers on here refer to are trapping supply places. Anywhere local you go to buy chain around here the sizing is totally different.