Everyone once in awhile, a person has to laugh at themselves. Had a couple packs of coyotes sounding off lately, so made some sets in my back field. When I was setting my favorite square jaws, I was feeling pretty good that after all these years my hands are still strong - no arthritis- lol

Well, couple mornings later I HAD a double. Both pullouts. Felling pretty dumb, I knew I should have changed those springs out years ago. Pulled them and they hit the bench. Upgraded springs ( thanks MTP) and readjusted. Dang, what a reality check. Those dang levers got awfully tough to push down. Stings like heck when you snap your fingers in there too. One of them was my demo trap. I would stick my fingers in it when talking to people to show it doesn’t hurt. Ya, I’m not doing that with these upgraded springs

I've replaced springs on a lot of older traps, and probably should do some more. It's one of those jobs I like to do in the spring and summer when you can do a few at a time, whenever you get a chance to sit at the bench for a few minutes.

I bought a bunch of old rubber jaw traps about a year ago off a guy. I am still going through and changing springs and rubber. Did 6 more this evening. Only about 4 dozen to go and I’ll finally be there. I’ve had the procrastination bite me too!