|
|
Post by greybeard on Jan 18, 2020 9:14:56 GMT -6
Makes sense Dave.
I haven't put a twist in the trigger wires but do have them spread out to a V.
Is it common for a spring on a conibear to break?
|
|
|
|
Post by dave on Jan 18, 2020 19:01:08 GMT -6
Makes sense Dave. I haven't put a twist in the trigger wires but do have them spread out to a V. Is it common for a spring on a conibear to break? I broke a few triggers but never a spring. I don't recall anyone ever telling me about a broken spring. But as most all traps are now made in China it wouldn't surprise me. |
|
|
|
Post by greybeard on Jan 24, 2020 13:43:32 GMT -6
I was going to try to weld it back, but the break is right in the coil of the spring. I have to get the traps at Bass Pro Shop as there are no sporting good places around close that sell trapping stuff....Academy doesn't carry anything like that. Lost one trap in the flood and the broken spring puts me down to just 2 conibears so I need to get some more. And another one gone..........Saw him fighting the trap yesterday morning thru binoculars from my upstairs window but it was pouring down rain so I waited till yesterday evening to remove him. Smallest so far.  There are more, as I can see new work as been done on the lodge at the end of the peninsula. They've put more mud over the sticks and limbs that form the structure. I do feel I'm finally making a dent in them this winter, but it's difficult to tell just how many colonies are in the pond system. I've learned a lot regarding their habits and how and where to trap them instead of just waiting around each night to shoot them. |
|
|
|
Post by greybeard on Mar 29, 2020 14:47:51 GMT -6
Recent activity... Mar 25   Saw this one after disposing of the one above  Picture from later that night  Today (probably caught him early last night..pretty smelly.)  The debris trail the heron is about to walk across is where the beaver have been crossing a little peninsula (prints in foreground are cow hoof prints)  |
|
|
|
Post by bulltrader on Mar 29, 2020 17:32:33 GMT -6
Tom on Mountain Men traps beaver and makes a living at it. But that's a TV show.
|
|
|
|
Post by greybeard on Mar 30, 2020 18:55:11 GMT -6
I'm sure some do make a living or augment their income with trapping but my property isn't big enough for me to do so and I don't think it would work well in an area like mine as the weather is pretty warm and so is the water. This one swelled up a lot in just a few hours and was already stinking when I got to it,..I just want them gone.
|
|
|
|
Post by dave on Mar 31, 2020 11:40:16 GMT -6
Tom on Mountain Men traps beaver and makes a living at it. But that's a TV show. He gets the hides tanned and makes things out of them that he sells at show. pretend mountain man roundups, etc. My old trapping partner now lives in Alaska. He has a shop right right beside where the cruise ships dock. He traps in the winter, gets most things tanned, and his wife and him sew up a bunch of different things which he sells to the tourists. One of the things I know he does is catch 50 or 60 mink (very low quality mink in that area probably not worth $5 on the fur market) he has then tanned. They get several hundred cheap women's gloves (wholesale $2 or less). Sew a mink fur cuff on the gloves and sell them like hotcake for $40 a pair. A genuine Alaska Mink glove....
|
|
