I have this client who took a direct hit on both hands from a belisle 280. Broke a bone in one hand. He was trying to clear some leaves and such from it that I had in a spill way after a recent rain. Thought he was doing me a favor.
Well, he admitted he should have left it alone and let me handle it. Lesson learned he said that he'll never go near one again and let me do the trapping.

Lesson learned the hard way. I've been there myself. The belisle 330 club. A club I have no interest in joining again.

Sarge

A 280 is the last trap...I would want to be hit with.

Unless it was the 220...LOL

I'm glad I've only had the pleasure of snapping 110s on my fingers. Seems getting caught in a 330 is a right of passage of sorts but I'd rather not experience it.

I know a guy who once got both hands up to his wrists in a 330. He was lucky enough to be able to get it unwired, walked out to a logging road, flag down a log truck driver, instruct the driver to fish a piece of hacksaw blade out of his pocket and cut the trap off.
I think the embarrassment was the most painful part.

The only trap I have snapped on my fingers was a #4 coil. That hurt! But I can’t even imagine the pain from being hit by a Belisle 280!

I have a knot in the back of my right hand from a broken bone in a 280.

Normally I would say that I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. In this instance I see a valuable lesson learned along with a bit of negative reinforcement as a good thing for messing with what he had no business touching.

No thanks

I had a 0 jump spring I thought I would stick my thumb in. Guess it got a nerve because it hurt worse than the MB550 that got me

I got bit by a 160 years ago and nothing broke but man did it hurt! Right across the palm.

A friend of a friend got his leg caught with a 330 and they just barely saved his leg

He learned the hard way

Had a little 120 Victor on my thumb in super cold conditions, that was tough! And then a 220 BMI mag hit me on the same hand ...that trap left some scarring.
Can't imagine a 280...lesson learned.

Got hit by a belisle 280, just one spring, right above the thumb knuckle.

Pretty sure I peed myself a bit. No way would I want to feel both springs.

Both springs of a Belisle 280 are indescribable BAD!

After powering my gloved hand out, and seeing the bloody, peeled skin from my knuckles to my fingertips, I lay in the logging road in a fetal position for about 30 minutes.

Gives me chill bumps to even think back about that incident.

I wore a New Belisle 220 0nce , horrible day

also slid a Bootfoot into a Belisle 660. Yeah, Fun times

Haven't seen his hand. Both got it. But the left hand has the broken bone. I forewarned him and others he let's fish the pond to not mess with them. BUT.......... Hard lesson learn.
I know when I got wacked by a 330 belisle. It took 3 months for the bruising to go away. Didn't break anything. Hand swelled up like a softball . Got in a hurry to pull as I was headed to the coast for some r&r. Stupid mistake.
I have slowed way down when setting and trap pull.

Sarge

And it was a new trap at that. OUCH

Most are talking about getting caught in Belisle's, Bridger 280's and 330's aren't any fun either

Yeah..but a complete closing jaws adds a whole new level of pain.