This has probably been asked before,,, but
What is your go to cat trap….

Asking for a cage trapper in therapy……

Bout to set up a milk crate near a potential Lynx track I saw. I figure if I'm lucky I'll either get a lynx or a dumb coyote. Have snares in the area as well so even if crate doesn't work a snare might.

NO BS K-9 Extreme, yote and cat.

Cage’s, footholds if needed best Ive used are MB 650cast. Many will work.

Osky

Bridger #3 4 coil laminated.

A modified DLS set exposed! Oversized pan covered with a shingle.

How do you tell what sex a trap is?
Asking for a friend

Snares hands down.

Our season is late here and we almost always have snow. Coils are probably more effective but I always find myself setting #3N's or #3 offset double long springs first.

Why laminated?

I was always a big fan of Sleepy Creek #3 coil regular jaws. Big pan in a compact package. Plenty strong 2-coiled. Easy to set/bed. Too bad more people didn't catch on, the trapping world would be a better place.

Snow country up here I like my Sterling MJ 600 and my 3N's

Bridger 2s here.

I like my laminations for the reason of having to release animals. I have released a few smaller cats and it just seems like there is less foot damage with laminations. This just my opinion, there are a lot of good traps out there. Plus the #3 has a little more reach in the snow that we have up here.

MB 550 Offset 2 coil. And modified #3 and #4 double longsprings (big pan) for exposed sets.

MB 550 two coil offset. Small cats get turned loose.

Same here. Plus, we have a lot of coons that end up in cat sets. I like big traps, but they can be hard on coons.

Duke 650 is a dandy cat traps imo.

lots of snow here with thaw in daytime and freeze at night...so i use #4 double longspring ....( coils will freeze down easier).... with the longspings the bottom of spring touching the ground can freese down but the top part of spring not touching the ground wont freeze down and still operate......coils in the warmer climate

I use 550s exposed with a single on the pan. Haven't had any problems and we get a lot of snow

Leftie do you have many toe catches with the big pans?

KB 5.5 big and little cats

I have just about every type of trap you could think of, but over the years I’ve caught more cats in plain old duke #3’s than anything.

#3 Bridger 2 and 4 coil OS

Cabled

Cubbied

#3 double long is a great exposed set trap.

Throw the PIT oversize pan on it, no need for shingles and all that junk than.



But they hold to many lions.

So I’m joining the tiny trap club.

True, but there are a lot of guys who try to manage cats to one degree or another. Snares when allowed sort of rule out release. I was never so driven to get the limit of 5 that I didn’t want to release younger females. Some want the max and that’s fine.

Osky

… I like bridger 2 dogless…. Mainly for ease of setting/bedding and low maintenance

… but they work … recommend 4 coil

x2

Nice
I have a boat load of Montgomery 3 dogless

that trap has a male bacullum, its the dog. the dogless are female.

True, but there are a lot of guys who try to manage cats to one degree or another. Snares when allowed sort of rule out release. I was never so driven to get the limit of 5 that I didn’t want to release younger females. Some want the max and that’s fine.

Osky
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Juvenile females are the first ones culled by mother nature in late winter when the carryung capacity of the land is set.
Released with a lame or frozen foot then their fate is sealed.
Not harvesting those is just wasting the resource.

I like my two coiled MB550OS. Very universal trap.

550 all day long

Juvenile females are the first ones culled by mother nature in late winter when the carryung capacity of the land is set.
Released with a lame or frozen foot then their fate is sealed.
Not harvesting those is just wasting the resource.
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I agree with Osky. With a 24 hour check on footholds, you should only see some damage during the worst cold snaps. Even if they have a bum foot when released they may live. With a snare around them, they never do.

^ this.


Only time I get bad catches in an exposed set is when I get the dreaded white stuff over the top.

Juvenile females are the first ones culled by mother nature in late winter when the carryung capacity of the land is set.
Released with a lame or frozen foot then their fate is sealed.
Not harvesting those is just wasting the resource.
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I understand tha. I’m speaking more of western trapping these days. Starting season in fall there are a ton of days in Montana, Wyoming, and other states that are getting temps up to the 60’s on into January in areas. Killing a young female, no, I think for what they bring a lot of trappers here would rather give the cat a shot. I don’t shoot small ones when I call them in either.
Boco I’m not standing on a soap box, of course your weather and area are very different. You do what you do for you, others the same. All good.

Osky