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Re: Tripped Traps: how many before????
[Re: KYBOY]
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03/05/24 08:36 PM
03/05/24 08:36 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,353 Oregon
beaverpeeler
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Oregon
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That's a pretty set KY. If I was a beaver I'd get caught!
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Tripped Traps: how many before????
[Re: KYBOY]
#8093561
03/06/24 12:58 AM
03/06/24 12:58 AM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 23,766 New Hampshire
Nessmuck
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When a 330 is fired with no catch....always look around the area...most of the time you’ll find a dead rat or mink
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Tripped Traps: how many before????
[Re: Wanna Be]
#8093614
03/06/24 07:50 AM
03/06/24 07:50 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 20,141 SEPA
Lugnut
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trapper
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Can’t speak for water trapping, but if you use fox urine down here with footholds, your first check will have one quarter to half tripped depending on your deer density. 99% of my tripped land traps are from deer. A sprung trap pulled out of the bed but no catch circle or any other disturbance to the set equals deer.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Tripped Traps: how many before????
[Re: KYBOY]
#8093671
03/06/24 09:26 AM
03/06/24 09:26 AM
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Joined: Jul 2017
Posts: 2,737 PA
w side rd 151
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IN 1982 I Became aware of Charlie Dobbins book Adjustment of Foothold Traps In that bock he goes into detail how to make improvements on how to make traps more effective at making catches . Simple ways of removing a pans from wobbling by squaring up the pan notch and also the dog Also installing a washer on the pan tension screw The first things I NOTICED WAS my catch increased by a large amount And hand in hand I realized that I had less traps that where fired but empty By reducing the wobble on the traps you are improving the odds that the animal is making good contact with the pan and that contact is generally going to insure that the jaws will get a better hold on your animal Trap adjustment made a huge difference in my success rate and at the same time reduced the amount of time spent resetting empty traps Ando f course I was catching more fur .
Last edited by w side rd 151; 03/06/24 10:06 AM.
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