All good info. Side question, how much tag end do you guys leave? Or do you flush them up where they loop back through and exit the furrel?

I smashed them for years. Thousands of them. 1/8” cable

I’d have loops pull through on 10-15% every year trying to pull them (my puller goes to 7’ with the cheater, you either get stuff back, or wreck something).

Since I went to swaging, I don’t ever recall having a loop come apart. Again, thousands of them. I’ve had the tabs on wolf fangs shear off, I fold a LOT of anchors in half pulling them, but the loops don’t give up!

Both are plenty strong for trapping purposes. But swaging (with the correct ferrules and tool), is stronger.

If you are making drowner cables and will be handling these with rubber gloves on, you do NOT want any wires poking out past the double ferrule. If there are, you will eventually poke a hole in those gloves.

For you guys who swage which gap on the swagger do you use on 3/32 cable?

Snared lots of wolves over the years and the only ones that the wolves pulled off were the swaged ones.Never had a wolf pull off a hammered and crosspunched ferrel.
So that is straight from on the line use experience.
Not bookreading parroting bs.

And thats what you consider proof? You should have just said you made it up.

Well since I had to try it, I bought a $30 swager on Amazon and made up a bunch of cables wolf fangs. With info from both crowds, I’m still not completely sure which is best. Guess I’ll give this a go.

I’d say if there’s a failure with the crimped cables, I’ll switch to hammering. Unfortunately a “failure” means lost trap and animal.

Which one did you buy, specifically?

Those should work. Not near as handy as a bench swager but, if you're not doing many hundreds of cable stakes or snares, should be just fine. How many crimps are you doing? I crimp stops twice , that covers the entire length of them, and I crimp double ferrules three times, once towards each end and then once in the middle, and that covers the entire length of them. I leave about 1/16" of the cable beyond the stop or ferrule. It opens up slightly and would make it a lot harder for them to slip, yet is short enough that it will not poke your gloves or fingers.

Those should work. Not near as handy as a bench swager but, if you're not doing many hundreds of cable stakes or snares, should be just fine. How many crimps are you doing? I crimp stops twice , that covers the entire length of them, and I crimp double ferrules three times, once towards each end and then once in the middle, and that covers the entire length of them. I leave about 1/16" of the cable beyond the stop or ferrule. It opens up slightly and would make it a lot harder for them to slip, yet is short enough that it will not poke your gloves or fingers.

You might check out how Newt uses a double ferrule as an end stop. I believe he claims it is stronger than the breaking strength of the cable. I have never had a snare fail at a stop though, so not sure it matters for my uses. If you are pulling earth anchors with levers and such, maybe there will be a noticeable difference.