This has boggled my mind on here for too long..

Everyone seems to push cable extensions which is fine. But I've never ever heard of adding chain and a quick/snap link ever ever on coon DPs or footholds. Sure cable could handle the abuse for multiple catches but chain forever... So Why no chain?

I think my main thing and many other guys may be weight and cost. Especially the way some of these guys trap coons, hundreds of traps with as much chain as the cable would get very heavy and very expensive.

BS... You don't have to buy chain if you look around...

What ya going to do? Steal it off kids swing-sets? Lol

Cable is a heck of a lot cheaper than chain.
Cable is a heck of a lot lighter than chain.
Easier for me to snip cable than chain if I need to.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, I don't see the need for any extensions. All of my coon traps have standard length chain with a mid chain swivel and a cable stake. Both footholds and DPs same set up.

I think he means when guys are looping them around trees and such and using cable extensions for doing so.

Where do you find free chain? I use stock chain and wolf fang anchors on my DP's but modify other traps with chain and swivels and buy it by hundred foot lengths.

Sure. If no kids is using it anymore

Boom

Stop on over.. Your close enough to me. I been looking randomly for yrs and just don't throw good chain away. It's everywhere..

Turtledale

Cause we like to bark about the tangled stinkin pile
after pull day lol.
At least they are shying away from wire.

Where you been JEck?
Edit. Just saw you are an international hunter.
Good to see you made the big time.

Am I the only one that hates using cable?

I wouldn't say I hate it, but it definitely is not fun at times. Kinks, broken strands, tangled messes.

And I stake all my DP's well away from any chance of entanglement.

Hey Wright. I just been teaching my little one to point and laugh at goofy looking people is where I been....

Quick snap and your trap with chain pops right out of a bucket. Freaking twisted up cable is more a pain than it's worth.. I just never have understood...

It's a love hate relationship

How are you guys using these extensions?

I quick link a cable to a chain, run the cable around a tree and run the trap and chain thru the cable loop. Pull tight and on to the next one……

Snap link or just a dog chain hookup around a tree or root. Straight to the chain. No kinky cables

Thanks for the answer.
I was wondering because I've never used any kind of extension on a coon trap. All of mine are rigged to earth anchors, everything all the same so there is no need to find something to attach to.