[img]http://https://youtube.com/shorts/TtVpNZQAN3w?si=f82Yo-HEYDC7xK6E[/img]

[video:youtube]https://youtube.com/shorts/TtVpNZQAN3w?si=f82Yo-HEYDC7xK6E[/video]

With teriffs hopefully they can be built in America

Dam Beaver is up to something too. Looks like a 330 and a 220 coming out.
But I’m guessing they’ll be a Canadian thing with the tariff stuff.

Shucks! I was hoping sleepy creek was building longsprings again…..

A friend will be testing a 160 size that he is building, equipment is changing/improving--Its a good time to be a Trapper!

Closed view

I’ll have one at the TS Trapline booth at the Virginia convention this coming weekend.

I’ve been hearing something , supposedly a new #2 double long coming out,,I don’t know when or whom. I would certainly like to hear more about it.
But I’m genuinely interested.

Don't need no stinkin welder.

Spoiled rotten lol

Price?

The cast jaw Dukes are higher than MBs now, at least on F&T. That's what tariffs do I guess.

Now that looks like a coyote catching machine

Going to be a great coyote/bobcat trap and run them two coiled in areas with equal fox to yote populations. I’ve bedded it in a few different spots of different ground types and it beds very well and easily.

Jaw spread?

6 1/2 in outside 5 7/8 in inside

When are them bad boys going to be available???

If I read correctly 5 7/8 on land in NY would be illegal by 1/8 “.

Thanks

Exciting
I know there are mixed opinions of Duke traps, but personally I really like them. I classify them as a disposable trap, because I can essentially take them out of the box and use them. No modifying them, no welding, and if they get run over Im not shedding a tear.
I’ve ran more then my share of coyotes through the Duke 650, my only real complaint is not enough pan tension. But I just wad up a big ball of Polly and add more resistance. Looks like the new 650 2.0 has even addressed the pan tension issue with a set screw. Win win

I cant wait to get my hands on them. Even though I dont need more traps....LOL

When I received the box in the mail and started playing with the trap I thought about Charlie Dobbins and how he would have been pleased with the equipment improvements we have seen over the last 30 years.

This thing is going to be a winner.

Wonder where the price will fall compared to the Alpha.

Will be interesting to see how they perform. Personally, I don't like the pivot point of the pan down so low as it appears it will be bedded or in direct contact with the ground unless you take ample precaution with bedding to make an extra notch for pan movement. It looks like 2 points that will likely rust quicker in our soils. Just my thoughts. I hope I am wrong.

A legitimate concern but the Bridger and Duke dogless, and NO BS traps have the pivot point at the same spot and no one complains about problems with traps firing.

Looks to be a well built trap,but why not put better chain and swivels on them,I'm sure trapper's would pay another $2 per trap for the better chain 'swivels....

1/8 inch too big for Georgia as well.

i wonder how well steel screen will lay in it. pan looks a little high for steel screen to lay flat in it.

When will they be available?

Pretty sure this fall maybe late fall.

I watched your newest video, I really wish they would have raised the jaw posts a little and then lowered the shelf for the pan to catch on. The trap would be a shade taller but the jaw spread would be the same and the pan would sit down lower below the jaws and still have the same amount of clearance underneath the pan and steel screen would lay flat. That’s how the no bs traps did there’s.

Looks like the levers have taken a beaten. Looks in the video there getting bent where they stop against the jaws.