When getting ready to set your Lil'Grizz's, like the night before. Place a piece of 3/4" PVC in it after you bait it and compress the springs. This will speed it up when setting and trying to get them all set in a day. Just push down on the dog and set the trigger and your done. Sure beats using your hands, a setter or screwdriver to set them the day your laying out your line. Also the PVC can be laid at the set for eye appeal. (And yes this idea is also on the Mark Steck DVD, Running Hard with the Grizz.)

It helps when you have a few lying or hanging around.

Very nice tip.

i envy you

Another tip....Paint the inside of the Grizz white. In the night it will look like a glow coming from the trap. Coon are attracted to it.

Nice tip. I got one for you ! Lock your shed.

More tips are welcome. We are here to help out.

Don't worry the guns are loaded and the wife is on the prowl!

When setting in soft soils, stab forked sticks through the stand to hold tight. The trap has to be solid or the coon will pull trap and all out of the ground or trip it. I have had to use 4 sticks before in sand creek beds.

Also when using marshmellows use only kraft brand, because the store brands don't have the powder coating that helps a lot to keep the dry. Once the marshmellow becomes wet or gooey the coon can slip it easily off the trigger. Keep the bait fresh.

When I set solid like a regular trap I attach a shock spring. I see it the same as a dirt hole set.

That's a big coon that reaches that 108 mark on your bench, I heard you had big coons in Minn.

I wish. It's for making snares.

Any tricks or techniques to setting these traps easier? What is the best way to compress the springs. These things are strong!

Here's a tip. A 1.1 costs a lot less than a lil griz and can be set the same way with the help of some pvc (same amount as the tip) and catch as many coon!

A 1.1 ????

Another tip: Use glow in the dark jig head paint and just paint the rim on the top. It will last long enough into the evening after it gets dark to get any coon's attention.

I use no 11's too, but I purchased a good no of LLgriz to try, I always have kept an open mind to new thing, The man that won the coonskinning contest at the Missouri convention caught 1017 coons the preceding season, in Griz's no wonder he won the contest.

I wish grizzes had a screw cap on the bottom with an 8 inch spike sticking out the middle of the cap. Then you could bait under the trigger easier and screw the cap back on. easier to clean them out also! and the straight spike would be easier to stabalize the trap.

That looks like 1" PVC

3/4" inside diameter, also printed on the out side of the pipe as 3/4".