Found this up on a random hill side. 1 1/2 size.

I’m assuming the pan is missing? Never seen a post like that before though.

Victor

I got a pretty good pile of those victor pinch pans. Sometimes a coon will get the pan off but not often.

Yup an old square pan victor. Lots of old time minkers loved that trap.

Berni who you calling old ? Im mature !

LOL same thing. I caught a lot of mink and quite a few coon in them. I probably still have a few in a bin somewhere.

I don’t think you are mature. At least not the way you act sometimes. How about “less young”

Had a couple dozen of those I used for fox circa 1975.

I cut those pinch pans down a bit though, to prevent misses.

Also was a good muskrat trap for log sets, toilets, & feed beds.

I preferred the round, circular pan style much better for fox, though.

Those old victors pinch pans bring back a lot of memories.

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One of the best mink traps ever made !

Got several of them

Do you have any of the double jaws? I only ever had one of them and someone made off with it.

Jayme I always felt that both the Victor #1 1/2 sq.pan coils with dbl jaws and even the #2 sq jaw Victor with dbl jaws would have been the traps to have back in the early days of trapping. Use the #1 1/2s in the water and the #2s on land.

I have a few and they are my go to rat traps.

The original design of that trap was made by Gibbs which was bought out by the Animal Trap Co in the mid 1930’s. I have and still use many with double jaws including what is probably the first version which have a smaller oval pan. I’m pretty sure production of the square pan was discontinued in 1976 but before the production of the round pan trap there was a model that had the same pan that was used on the #2 coil. There are 2 types of the 1977 traps, a standard jaw and a corrected version with higher jaws because of the elongated pan.

Thanks fellas.

I really liked the 1 1/2 DJ, wish I had a couple dozen of them. I don't know if I've seen a the #2 with them. I bet it would be a great mink trap too, it wasn't a pinch pan style was it?

Don't think so...the ones I have seen were nut and bolt(?) but roztocki....knows a heck of lot more than I do.
With the #2 Vic sq. jaw with dbl jaws....I always felt that the dbl jaw construction strengthened the jaws up and would hold coyotes more often than a stock #2 sq jaw. And obviously when "fox" trapping with a #2 Vic sq jaw .....raccoon, skunk, and possum will be caught the dbl jaws can help on those critters.

Caught my very 1st mink and coon in one way back in the early sixties .

I bought two dozen 1 1/2 DBL jaws when coon price was high, added more swivels, swapped out the springs for maybe #2 Montgomery that I had four coiled and had around. Great coon trap at that point.