i have been toying with the idea of turning some 1 gallon sunny-d bottles into muskrat floats when i came up with is idea for a raccoon set.

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Hmmm... Interesting. Do you think it will be dog resistant? It doesn't seem to be completely dog proof but could still be effective nonetheless. It is a good idea.

The Secret Sunny D coon set, as seen on Trapperman.com, lol.

my beagle walked all over it, and she didn;t collapse it, i don't know what would happen if a bigger dog went after it, of if they tried to dig it up. i know when you bury it you mess up a lot of didt making alot of eye appeal. there cheeap and lightweight also.

like i said a idea

Perhaps another type of bottle. Maybe a Clorox shaped bottle with a small hole. Only a coon would be able to push his foot down the hole. A dog would not fit his paw even by accident and when surrounded by all that dirt it should not crush. If he digs it up aggressively odds are he will upset the trap and not get caught maybe.
It would be light and the plastic parts can sort of nest inside each other in the form of a stack for carrying a lot of them.
Keep building on the idea and test them this season a lot. I think I will try it too!

would a 2 liter bottle work with some reconstruction?

It would only be good for one catch. The coon would destroy It In a heart beat. But It sure will keep the dogs out.

I don't see why a 2 liter pop bottle won't work for coon, used them for mink on creeks; pre sets! works fine
years ago we used to use the old milk cartons/half gal ones
worked great for mink & coon/cheap and easy to carry

Looks like any dog could get its paw in that hole and if he does it would be easy to trip the trap. Dog proof trap's triggers should be pull type triggers not push down IMO.

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ADC..saw something like that at the NTA convention in kansas...believe they called it the black hole or something like that? attatched to your foothold trap and made a pull type trigger out of it? anyone know what im talking about? maybe its just me lol but i thought it was a pretty good idea if ya had a lot of dog trouble on your line

Yeah, the Black Hole is Dogproof and they work.

thats what i thought it was called..thanks

where can you find these black hole traps ?

There is a pic in the dog proof trap thread. http://www.trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Main/58769/Number/755034#Post755034

I got mine from Cumberland's

Be careful going to the cumberlands site, I got a warning that there were viruses on several of the pages. Take it for what it is worth. Tom

sowhat if he destroys it, it was free, and if he is chewing on the bottle, he might not chew on his foot.

sorry motor, i realised the pic was for the black hole

WOW, some threads are best not answered i suppose !! LMAO

for those who have been giving me constructive criticism, i thank you. here is my 12" beagles paw in relation to the cap of the bottle.



i chose the sunny d bottle, because it just barley housed a sprung 1 1/2 the soda bottle and clorox bottle idea sould work.. the only thing i see is the hole on the clorox bottle is to the side and it might still smell like bleach.just my .002 i'd like to try them sometime.