Re: big trap rant!
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05/25/15 05:12 PM
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BEAV, i have aways been in fear of over quiding! and have have before. i have also have had them blow threw my guiding.
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1989 speling "B" champione.
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Re: big trap rant!
[Re: Savell]
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05/25/15 05:19 PM
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TravC
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Never mind fixed it for ya carry on …didn't confuse me as I'm fluent in "western desert dweller" ….didn't know I was bilingual did you Trav lol ? …these boys on here just don't know when to listen sometimes lol heck savel us desert folka don't know nothin lol
There i said it....
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/25/15 05:52 PM
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Great post Beav.I'me using 1 3/4ths traps right now,'cause that's what I got. On several occasions last fall I saw a track right on the jaw,missed the pan,no catch.It didnt detect the trap. For me ,that's maybe a good thing. I'me not overly guiding,just a little bit...subtle. If I had #2s or a few #3s,I might set them. I've got a couple week window before freeze up here.I dont get much dirt trapping in,and havnt done a whold lot of it. 24 hour check limits the amount of country one can set up,or I'de practise a little more.And alot of sod around here, none of that dezzert .
"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/25/15 06:14 PM
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I use as big as the state allows. Except the 550s.
Will my toes ever warm up?
I'm Gonna die with my boots on.
Tim Henry.
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/25/15 06:33 PM
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I have cought coyotes in traps from a#2 dls to a 4 1/2 newhouse. I meen 1 1/2 coil to a CDR a MB 7.50. Bridger #5. dont use exposed sets and yes I have just aint for me.I like #2 TO#4 COIL OR A #3 TO #4 Longspring. I have cought alot of coyotes and cats in #5 longs and larger traps with and with out teath. The big coils up to the AK#9. Have never seen eather a cat or coyote that didnt have foot or leg damage in that size. Not haten just sayn
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/25/15 08:01 PM
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I have cought coyotes in traps from a#2 dls to a 4 1/2 newhouse. I meen 1 1/2 coil to a CDR a MB 7.50. Bridger #5. dont use exposed sets and yes I have just aint for me.I like #2 TO#4 COIL OR A #3 TO #4 Longspring. I have cought alot of coyotes and cats in #5 longs and larger traps with and with out teath. The big coils up to the AK#9. Have never seen eather a cat or coyote that didnt have foot or leg damage in that size. Not haten just sayn this is such a good thread and so many things going on. i cant seem to figure out what i am doing different cuz i am not getting any damage! this trapping season i will carrie a camra with me.
1989 speling "B" champione.
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/26/15 12:22 AM
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The Beav
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Good point Chuck.
Does anyone use face guides?
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/26/15 12:32 AM
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trapper les
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Dont know what that is,I guess.
"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/26/15 01:11 AM
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Bowkill36
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Here is the thing that kills me and I do not see it here nearly as often as on hunting pages.
I don't care who you are your way is not the best way to do it everytime and this applies to every aspect of life. I work in the medical field and work with people that say this is the only way to do it. When you get this attitude you are missing out. My dad taught me to hunt one day after I had just bugled in my little brothers first archery bull elk on the hill with tears in his eyes he told us how proud he was that we had takenn what we learned from him and others we had hunted with and mixed it with tatics we had learned on our own and stored things away and pull them out at the correct moments he had watched us use some different tactics that morning leading up to the shot, and it worked and hit him hard how much we payed attention but didn't get stuck in a rut.
I apply this to my trapping, I am very new to this so when I see one guy say this will not work and another say it will I experiment and figure it out for myself. I then write this new info in a journal and trying it one time proves nothing. I then pull that info. out when it is relevent to do so or when the normal just isn't working and it suprises me how many times it works and suprises even me.
My point you need to be open to change and to try different things it will make you a much better trapper, hunter, professional,or any thing else for that matter. The guys that knock something because they tried it once and it didn't work or worse yet they didn't try it at all are never going to advance themselves they may get great numbers but they won't bump those numbers without putting more hours in. Learn to improvise think outside the box.
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/26/15 01:29 AM
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/26/15 08:22 AM
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This was an informative thread concerning big trap vs little trap.You said you're very new to this.maybe you should give it a little more time.
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
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Re: big trap rant!
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05/26/15 10:24 AM
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I read this whole thread and I also posted. I see no where In the thread where any one said something wouldn't work. All I saw was a bunch of Ideas thrown out and other trappers systems and thoughts.
I guess I must have missed something.
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