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weasel box mink? #8549412
01/21/26 08:34 PM
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Anyone have any mink success in weasel boxes using rat traps? Just curious if they'll hold

Re: weasel box mink? [Re: TrapprChris] #8549451
01/21/26 09:09 PM
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I’ve heard of people doing it from post on this forum. But I have not tried it myself.


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Re: weasel box mink? [Re: Forest] #8549515
01/21/26 10:41 PM
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A fellow trapper recently hit my inbox and sent videos showing the ability for long tailed weasels to actually get out of rat traps in boxes, so I’d assumed minks would be even worse.
A lot of guys I see put “kill switches” in the boxes. Essentially a metal piece located in front of the trap so the neck or back of the weasel is broken when the trap trips.


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Re: weasel box mink? [Re: TrapprChris] #8550458
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I’ve had big rats and grey squirrels get hit and run off from rat traps so I’d say if it did work on mink it would be a smaller female and likely not consistently replicable .

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