Took time to clean the wax from the night latch and bottom of the pan on my MB 550s . Noticed that the cast jaws have four different markings on them. I have bought about four dozen of these over the years. some of the inside jaw spreads are about an eighth of an inch wider, but they all still work great

I love my MB’s but I started going with closed jaws for that reason. Some offsets are really offset in my opinion. The first couple of dozen were what I considered “offset” the ones after that seemed to have a much larger offset.

I have to use the offsets to stay in state regs but have wondered about that. The fox is pretty much gone in my area so have not had a problem with pullouts on Coyotes. I currently run 550 offsets and the original MB #3 Alphas and will be trapping for a few days in Kentucky this year so am really anxious for season.

Yep. 365 a year. But I envy those who just clean and dip traps in the summer. I can honestly say = I HATE = cleaning and dipping traps. I know it has to be done. But here I am in West Texas with a make shift close line and Formula 1 dipping MJ 600 Sterlings 12 at a time. Things are slow here. Mostly snare work So Time to do the cleaning and dipping. Wish I could pay someone to do it for me ! LOL!

Secured up 300 more acres from a farmer friend