Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
[Re: coonman22]
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02/16/07 05:22 PM
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I agree with you. I haven't seen any problems with leaving the safties hooked year around.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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02/16/07 10:24 PM
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if you leave a load too long on a trailer, etc. the springs will take a set.....I wire them down before I go out on line but when season is over I let em relax....Mac~
Although I have trapped over 50 years without a partner I am never alone...God and my Dad are always there with me.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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02/16/07 11:20 PM
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Yes, I left springs compressed on a Sauvageau, it did make them weaker.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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02/17/07 08:44 AM
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I dont see no difference in my Sauvageaus.They have been set for 3 years now. Unless there is a animal in them.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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02/17/07 09:03 AM
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Hey newt that was a nice demostration on otter at herk, in NY. Hows the sheep This is an Email on dukes: Scott, Thanks for your question. If you just want to compress the springs for a short time before taking to your field sets, that should not weaken the springs. On the other hand, we don't recommend long term storing the springs compressed. Also, you should not dye or wax the traps with the springs compressed. The springs on all of our body traps should last many years and give you good performance. Good luck this season. Thanks, Bill
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
[Re: Mystic Wildlife]
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02/17/07 11:04 AM
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They store much nicer if you have a pile of them with the springs compressed. If it weakens them it's not enough to notice IMO.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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02/17/07 11:09 AM
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It was always my understanding that pitting of the steel is the cause of weak springs, not leaving them compressed, but what do I know, I'm a muddy coon trapper.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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Someone did an article on this awhile back in FFG or Trapper. They talked to an engineer and said leaving springs compressed makes no difference at all.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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I would venture to bet that everyone who said they do not store thier bodygrips hooked, have a gun cabinet full of cocked guns. Now if you are conserned about spring strength on your bodygrips shouldn't you be equally as conserned about the spring strength on you firing pin of your rifle????? Just a thought. My self? My bodygrips get stored both ways (how every they come off the line when I put them away usually hooked), and yes all my guns are cocked.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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02/17/07 07:28 PM
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What Plueger said. I have heard Pete say it more than once. Mine stay set till the catch something.
Never argue with a fool - they will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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it would seem if leavin them cocked weakened them much if any then a adc person usin them all year would have worn out traps in just a single year or so.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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Manufactures tell you to leave them unset out of liability concerns nothing else. If they said other wise and one snapped with a safety off and someone was hurt, what do you think would happen?? Todays steel is not bothered by being set like the old steel is, won't hurt them one bit leaving them set until your ready to use them!! Interesting point, that could be.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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October arrives, and you set your springs on a coni. It catches around midnight. At 4am you arrive and collect your fur, and reset. Another long day and evening draw on with your springs in the set position. Only for a brief time are they "relaxed" around the body of your catch. Again and again, day after day, the springs remain set, save for those moments when fur is in the trap. From Oct. to Feb. In all kinds of weather your springs spend most of the time set. If they weren't set, you couldn't catch the animal. So what difference does it make, if they are set or not? In one sense, they are in storage, and another sense, they are standing sentinel. I have "weak" conis that are "easy" to set and they kill just as well as my besliles.
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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What Plueger said. I have heard Pete say it more than once. Mine stay set till the catch something. I concur... Plueger, Newt, Pete Askins, what 20 other on this board have as many years or as much expirience that would disagree?
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Re: leaving connibear springs compressed
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Dane, again, if you ever get the chance to listen to Pete Askins you will never replace one of those either unless pitted badly. I laugh everytime I see a post on that.
Never argue with a fool - they will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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