Just curious, how many coon has your son ever skinned, fleshed, and boarded himself? Not trying to be a smarty pants and I know that was not your question, but 250 coon is some work to handle even if done in chapters. I would bet that is a couple 55 gal drums of fat off the beam alone, man gonna need a pile of stretchers and push pins too, lol.

I would try pedaling a bunch of those #2 doubles, or trade for DP's and 1.5 coils unless you have 80 good drowner locations, they would make ok drowner traps for coon, but as mentioned, they are a foot chewers houdini trap if on a live coon.

All that aside, do everything you can to help him, I bet you 2 will have a ton of fun and the memorys made will be worth it when you are done.

He will be selling his fur green. Unfortunately all the buyers around here are gone so he will be selling to GFW when they come around. He wants to get some muskrats and have a hat or head band made for his mother. Also some mittens not sure on what fur for those yet.
I would like to learn how to out up the fur. And I’ve been working every holiday I can at work because I can convert my holiday pay over to personal time. With my schedule I might be able to take the whole month of November off

And I had a typo. He only has 7 #2 DBL. we were thinking of using those on fish stick sets? Would they work for that? He did catch his first coyote today so he is on cloud nine. I made a post in trapper talk about it

I would have no hesitation using those at a fish stick set if you can drown the coon. Should be easy to find enough locations to do that.

Look up coon creek outdoors on Youtube for fur handling videos, Stu covers it all. I would say look at next gen trapper and Iowa coon trapper on there too, both guys catch coon in high numbers and have streamlined their approach, if you look they run basic sets and lots of them to get numbers.

You're over thinking things a little, IMO. Just pit a regular pan on the 11, and forget night latching those 1.5s. Just adjust the pan tension so the pan will fall on its own and you're good to go.