I use snares for coyotes but have leg hold traps stashed here and there for everything else.
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Interesting issue in Hanover
- Thread starter peter nap
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I use snares for coyotes but have leg hold traps stashed here and there for everything else.
Firearms Iinstuctor
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Looks to me like a standard no.4 double long spring. could be a no 3 but I think a no. 4
Have you trapped or snared any thing
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Firearms Iinstuctor
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I be more impressed if it was set with a loaded round wired to the pan for bait maybe a mini revolver. 
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16 coons, 3 coyotes, 5 foxes and 2 possums, 8 beaver, this year. The coons usually get the Dukes dog proof. It depends on the make. Victor doesn't make them that large any more but it would be a number 7...that's a Dukes number 5..7.5 inch jaw spread. I use it for beaver drowning sets sometimes.
I just trap to get rid of some of the nuisance animals.
Ought to be some good pelts in that bunch.
The last one this year got into my quail pen...he's in this bunch. Gave it to a friend
http://s2.photobucket.com/user/DanozEddieoz/media/Mobile Uploads/20150304_221628.jpg.html
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Most just end up bear and buzzard food Grape. The coons get in the quail pens, eat wild turkey eggs and play the devil with the wood ducks plus they go rabid more often than anything else I have, the coyotes get in everything but I shoot more than I trap. The beavers are the 3 year plague. Possums are just possums.
Firearms Iinstuctor
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I was asking the truth he had ever trapped any thing fur prices were down a bit this year a good bunch of varmint trapped.
I see that...sorry.
Prices for most things are below what they should be considering the work. Bobcat here is still fairly good but I like seeing them now and again, so I leave them alone.
I'm getting soft I guess. I just don't enjoy the killing part anymore.
Nah I've never been a big fan of traps, never had a reason to use them. I've always enjoyed hunting though.
wondered where lassie ended up...see now....
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That's another issue. The damn dog hunters let them go where they want and when they get caught I have to turn them loose without getting bitten or hurting them. I have a friend that flat refuses to do it. He calls the dog catcher to get them out of the trap and haul them to the pound.
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Firearms Iinstuctor
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wondered where lassie ended up...see now....
had a pledge/roommate who trapped and paid his way through college in northern Ohio
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I made good money trapping back in the 60s and 70's helped pay my way through collage too.
It was fun when one could make money at and one didn't have to let fur bearers go I don't like the low pieces and dealing with letting wolves and bob cats go.
Firearms Iinstuctor
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That's interesting. We don't have wolves although Va coyotes picked up wolf DNA coming here and some have some size...but there is a regular season for Bobcats, coyotes are a pests that can be killed year around, and, landowners can kill Bobcats year round.
The 60 were good years and I had the mountains to run as long a line as I pleased. Even muskrat were getting good prices then.
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Speil chequer - it am ur fiend.
Please do not leave your chain laying about. Grapeshot (or someone else) will see it and give it a good yank.
stay safe.