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