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Re: Longspring
[Re: Jakebuddy]
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01/24/18 05:57 PM
01/24/18 05:57 PM
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Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 5,081 montana
red mt
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Not really down there, but if you could find one that would float now that be handy I think. Lol
Last edited by red mt; 01/24/18 05:58 PM.
Kenneth schoening
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Re: Longspring
[Re: Jakebuddy]
#6137932
01/25/18 05:28 PM
01/25/18 05:28 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 21,125 St. Louis Co, Mo
BigBob
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Coils are a lot easier to bury.
Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon.
Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor.
Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!
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Re: Longspring
[Re: Jakebuddy]
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01/27/18 10:57 AM
01/27/18 10:57 AM
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Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 146 Idaho
IDTrapman
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What Lurp said: "They’re also nice in freeze thaw conditions as they’re much less likely to freeze down."
That's been the conditions around here this year. I have some exposed trap sets out for cats and I'm having zero issues with my longs, but my coils are a pain in the rear! I've made small blocks to keep them up off the ground, but then they wanna wobble, so I'm stuffing sticks and rocks under the jaws and levers to try and stabilize them. Gonna start phasing the coils out and go with all longs eventually.
Lurp, I'm surprised you only use them 5% of the time over there in your neck of the woods.
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
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Re: Longspring
[Re: Jakebuddy]
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01/27/18 03:21 PM
01/27/18 03:21 PM
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Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 1,781 Mi, Mecosta
ambush32
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I really like using Dls for my cat sets....I use #4 just because I had them for beaver but I think it's kinda overkill.... Any members using #2 Dls for cats?
Thought I was a good trapper until I started trapping coyotes...... Thought I was a good bowhunter until I targeted mature bucks....
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Re: Longspring
[Re: IDTrapman]
#6140203
01/28/18 12:13 AM
01/28/18 12:13 AM
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Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 61 Wyoming
Lurp
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What Lurp said: "They’re also nice in freeze thaw conditions as they’re much less likely to freeze down."
That's been the conditions around here this year. I have some exposed trap sets out for cats and I'm having zero issues with my longs, but my coils are a pain in the rear! I've made small blocks to keep them up off the ground, but then they wanna wobble, so I'm stuffing sticks and rocks under the jaws and levers to try and stabilize them. Gonna start phasing the coils out and go with all longs eventually.
Lurp, I'm surprised you only use them 5% of the time over there in your neck of the woods. Last season I ran a lot of my line with expanded pan DLS as I was primarily targeting cats. This year I ran more of a mixed line and have been just running mostly coil springs with an occasional DLS on very rocky ground. I find my MB650 with a roofing shingle paper clipped to the pan does the majority of what a DLS will do outside of a few specific circumstances. It also didn't help that I bought all new pit pan systems for my DLS and was in the middle of swapping them all out when the season snuck up on me so now i'm stuck with much fewer DLS than I usually have. I will probably run a few more next season once my DLS arsenal is back in the game. For some reason I have a soft spot for a nice western cat in a DLS, nothing looks as good.
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Re: Longspring
[Re: Jakebuddy]
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01/29/18 12:42 AM
01/29/18 12:42 AM
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Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 489 TN
TN_Trapper
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TN
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Longsprings don't freeze down as easily (when the bottom of the spring is frozen down the longspring will still work). The longspring beds easier (I've come to the conclusion that more dug up traps are dug due to an animal stepping on the corner of a trap and its moves than most people think). Longsprings have the advantage in holding power as they lock up better. Its easier to add a big pan to the longspring than the coilspring. When pulling traps, I see more caked mud in and around the coils on a coilspring than on a longspring trap. I find it as easy (sometimes easier) to set the longsprings (the #2,3,4 sleepy creek in particular).
Brandon
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