Re: drags?? chain, cable, or both?
[Re: j lord]
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09/30/08 08:44 PM
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Cable gets all kinked up after a catch. Then she just don't lay flat any more!
Just ask your mommy...
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Re: drags?? chain, cable, or both?
[Re: Creektrapper]
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09/30/08 08:53 PM
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water n my boots, I don't know if others use drags for the same purpose as I do, but sometimes, it's just a little quicker and definitely quieter then pounding in a stake or two.
When I use a drag, it's not that I want the critter to run off down the road, I always wrap the chain and hook the drag or just hook the drag to a small sappling. On one overgrown road it was getting dark one night and I pushed a 24" T stake down about 18" and hooked on it. Next morning yote was there but buried in the dewberry patch on the shoulder of the road. That was a trip getting him to come out of there. lol Like I said I don't use a drag for them to run off 20 yards or more.
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Re: drags?? chain, cable, or both?
[Re: water n my boots]
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09/30/08 08:53 PM
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J, I has like you, I had a spool of 1/8 cable laying around so i made up a doz 10ft yote drags. After 1 catch they were toast! reduced to cable stake makings. LOL I learned my lesson! BUT they did hold and will work!
Just ask your mommy...
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Re: drags?? chain, cable, or both?
[Re: Blackdog]
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09/30/08 08:58 PM
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Just used chain, less kinked up twisted up mess to deal with, easy to store and is a ONE time purchase, goofed up cable means you either have to get more cable or go to chain anyway, just start out with the best and you'll always have the best.
As for why use drags?
As lordy said, to keep animals out of sight but ive mostly used them cause im trapping in rocky ground where you CAN'T drive a stake.
I also use them at certain sets I don't want destroyed like a nice blind set. Often times a set here cannot be remade if it rains and the animal turns into a hog pen, thus a drag allows you keep a set working that would other wise have to be moved.
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Re: drags?? chain, cable, or both?
[Re: Creektrapper]
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09/30/08 09:08 PM
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Did that a long time ago Danny, just kept quiet about it so kids wouldn't start off doing stuff they didn't understand. It became public knowledge after 'some' learned it for the first time so now i'll admit it.
Cheap as china can make chain what the heck, lol.
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