Re: Snare Locks
[Re: backroadsarcher]
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02/17/24 03:12 PM
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I started using the small black toothed camlocks recently,for wolf,I'm impressed with their performance.I think they are called lightning locks. As far as snares for fox or cats the regular cam or an adams lock does the job very well. Only lock I have tried that I do not like is the slim lock.Had a few waterheads with that lock so I wont use it anymore except for under ice beaver snares.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Snare Locks
[Re: Boco]
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02/17/24 03:35 PM
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I started using the small black toothed camlocks recently,for wolf,I'm impressed with their performance.I think they are called lightning locks. As far as snares for fox or cats the regular cam or an adams lock does the job very well. Only lock I have tried that I do not like is the slim lock.Had a few waterheads with that lock so I wont use it anymore except for under ice beaver snares. Thanks Boco, you have good luck with the can locks even in bad weather, freezing and thawing. Who do you get this locks from?
Last edited by backroadsarcher; 02/17/24 03:46 PM.
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Re: Snare Locks
[Re: backroadsarcher]
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02/17/24 03:46 PM
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Freezing and thawing is not much of an issue here.It happens once or twice maybe in the late fall,but not every year. Cams are more succeptible to the thaw freeze situation than other locks. Each and every snare has to be worked manually after a thaw freeze here,even the adams and thompsons. It is a pain,but good that it is a fairly rare occurrence here.
I pick up my snaring stuff at the trapstore at FHA in North Bay or from a dealer at a convention.
Last edited by Boco; 02/17/24 03:48 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Snare Locks
[Re: backroadsarcher]
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02/17/24 07:14 PM
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I have used 1/19 5/64 cable with 3/32 micro locks on my 6ft coyote snares with a 6ft extension and tied high with great success. Usually DOA with little site disturbance.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
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Re: Snare Locks
[Re: martentrapper]
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02/17/24 08:47 PM
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Mark M. You must be trapping in a state other than Washington to be using snares? You are Very Correct, unfortunately!!! Yes, I have to travel out of state to enjoy some real trapping with good equipment!!! Eastern Oregon, has been a good place for me too regain my sanity, lol.
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Re: Snare Locks
[Re: backroadsarcher]
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02/17/24 08:55 PM
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we use to have a stupid snare law that said something like "must be a relaxing lock" like when you tighten it up it has to fall open again ... Happily our state org got it changed and we can use whatever we want now as far as locks
Deep in the heart of Appalachia....
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Re: Snare Locks
[Re: Mark McCary]
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02/17/24 09:07 PM
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I have tested all kinds of snare locks, springs and cable combinations. Still working on a few?
My favorite dispatch snare lock is the Bridger Sure Hold Cam Lock W / Teeth.
My second choice would be the Amberg snare lock. I like the Amberg snare lock too but impressed with the death blow lock. Death blow lock looks just like the Bridger Sure Hold Cam Lock W / Teeth. I'm sure it is but just a different maker.
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Re: Snare Locks
[Re: backroadsarcher]
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02/17/24 11:09 PM
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I have tried a lot of different locks over the years along with a lot of different cable and kill spring combinations. My country is pretty open with the sage being around 24 to 30 inches high. The absolute best set up I have found is the mini death blow cam lock on a snare built on 12 feet of 1x19 1/16 cable with the conibear type kill spring.. Coyotes pull the support color off and have plenty of slack to hit the end of the snare at high speed. I find lots of them piled up dead with slack in the cable. I had some success with the micro locks if your cuth the fifty LB kill spring in half and add it below the lock. Most of the other combo I have tried where a live catch snare. Now I have around a 95% kill rate with little or no entangelment.
I can't believe that cop put me in the back seat when I clearly called shotgun.
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