What is everyone doing for long springs these days and thought’s on Bridger DBL ???

I got a dozen of them to run for cat trapping this winter. Caught a few yotes last spring for them and over the summer put on PIT pans and center swivels.

I like em, but we will see how they run this fall.

I have 1dz 3ns I’m in the middle of modifying. I’m going to run them on drags for coyotes. Solid traps and with the pit pan and upgraded dog I have the firing right at a crisp 3 1/2 lbs.

I’ve turned a few of them into dogless with laminations and baseplated pretty solid trap and thick jaws to start with. Plus even the stock pan setup can be nightlatched and adjusted to perfection not a bad trap imo.

I use a lot of single and double longsprings, as I do a lot of trapping in marsh and mud. I have about every brand of LS made. When trapping nutria its hard to beat a B&L 1 1/2 SLS. I use a lot of #2 LS and #11's, all brands, but I love the Sleepy Creeks. Depending on where I'm trapping I might run 200 traps and about 1/3 to 1/2 are LS. I just love using them as they are easy to set across your thigh in a pirogue, they hold anything you catch and it connects me to my ancestors as many of the traps I use have been in the family forever.

You could die of old age before you were able to count the number of animals taken with long spring traps. If it’s what you have, they will work just fine. No need to overthink things, learn how to set and bed them then be ready to haul out fur. Many can be found at conventions for a reasonable price point. Good luck!

Those you've modified have been really nice. Wish I had a dozen of each for cats, and another dozen for wolves. Ahhh, dreaming again lol

I use the #4 dbls for beaver and otter, they're a great trap

#0 and #1 longsprings are what I use for marten and some that I have are at least from the 30's, probably have around 160 or so. I like the #4 long springs for lynx and have quite a few of those as well but some are old and I've retired them. Longsprings are still popular in Alaska.........

What is number 2 DBL used for? My boy bought some traps at an auction and they were some in the box

I use #2's for just about everything. For me they are a great water trap. I've caught legal critter in Louisiana with a #2 long spring. They are great on land for anything down here. I love'em.

I started off with a dozen Sleepy Creek #4 DLSs several years ago and then picked up 3 Victor #3s and 1 Triumph #4 off of here.
I also have 5 coil springs 3s & 4s.
I think I prefer the coul sping traps.

Longsprings weigh less, bed very solid, and they'll usually still trip even if they're frozen down because everything that moves is not touching the ground. Plus the nostalgia factor is cool. Coils definitely have their place, but I'm never shy about reaching for a longspring instead either

I like longsprings, they are all I use for beaver, otter, etc. I do use mostly coilsprings for canines though. Longsprings may be easier to bed solid, but they also require a larger trap bed. I did catch a wolf in a Sleepy Creek 4 1/2 longspring last fall. That is a trap I really want to like, but I've pretty much relegated it to an early season trap, they just don't have the power to come up through the crust that the big coilsprings do, and they don't have the jawspread to reach up through as much snow either. I've missed a couple wolves with them before I quit using them for snow sets, either because they had too much snow over them and went off under the wolves foot (they also don't 'jump' up when they go off like coilsprings) or because they were froze in. It doesn't matter if they freeze down, like Tramp says, but if they get a crust over the jaws they just don't have the power to come up through it like a #9, NOBS, 4 coiled TS 85, etc.

A #3 long is a perfectly good coyote trap, but I never make a set for coyotes where there isn't a possibility of wolves showing up, and I don't want to lose a wolf to a pullout, so my #3 coyote longsprings haven't been set in probably fifteen years.

Now if you're making exposed sets like cat sets, longsprings are the way to go, it doesn't matter if the bottom of the springs freeze down, if you don't have the top covered they are still going to go off, no matter how hard they are stuck to the ground, unlike a coilspring.

That's a message I can get behind. The only longspring I would knowingly set for wolves is the #48's I have and I only got 2 so one lives on the living room wall, the other is hanging in the shed. And that's where they're staying lol