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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Rusty Gold! Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:55 pm | |
| Put an ad in the local want ads for some traps and got a call. I bought some good traps..and some wire stretchers that I am going to sale or trade. He said they were coyote stretchs. But I don't know anything about wire stretchers. Anyways just thought I would share some pictures. After a couple hours of cutting old wire and cable I ended up with..... 21 OS #3 Victors. Some #3 and #4 Newhouses and a Diamond. And the 19 Wire stretchers. Plus a pile of other regular jaw #3 victor longs and a couple Montgomery and Northwood coils... all and all a damn good day | |
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Bghunter119
Posts : 727 Join date : 2009-04-03 Age : 50 Location : Nw kansas
| Subject: Re: Rusty Gold! Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:58 pm | |
| are those the stretchers for sale on trapperman? | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Rusty Gold! Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:01 pm | |
| Yep...I have them for trade but will sale them. | |
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ridgeback740
Posts : 449 Join date : 2011-12-31 Age : 67 Location : South Central Idaho
| Subject: Re: Rusty Gold! Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:43 pm | |
| As far as the wire coyote strectchers go, I would not use them on your coyotes. Your Nevada dogs will stretch so much better on a wooden stretcher than these. Looks like you are getting set for a good season next year. | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Rusty Gold! Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:36 am | |
| Yep I am hoping to run quite a few traps next year!! | |
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ridgeback740
Posts : 449 Join date : 2011-12-31 Age : 67 Location : South Central Idaho
| Subject: Re: Rusty Gold! Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:16 am | |
| Well then, Good Luck Lance, catch bunches and don't forget to take pictures. By the way, the wife said your letter arrived today. | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Rusty Gold! Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:29 am | |
| 10/4 glad it made it...kinda worries me sometime sendin cash in the mail..postal service isnt the most reliable. | |
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BUCKSNBOWS
Posts : 944 Join date : 2011-08-28 Age : 55 Location : NEVADA
| Subject: Re: Rusty Gold! Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:19 pm | |
| Nice haul there Elko boy. With a little tlc you got some cat snappn gold for sure!!! | |
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ridgeback740
Posts : 449 Join date : 2011-12-31 Age : 67 Location : South Central Idaho
| Subject: Re: Rusty Gold! Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:01 am | |
| I used to run about 120 #3 double long spring traps on a coyote line. In places where weight wasn't an issue, I would use a railroad plate with a 3.5 inch bolt up through one hole in the plate and another one the other direction in another hole. I would run at a minimum of 10 feet of chain with this. It makes a great drag, and if you can plant them before the ground freezes up, they act as a deadman once frozen in or if you bury them deep enough. If by chance they are pulled up, then the drag part takes over and they still work. For coyote trapping early in the season, this might be a good alternative for a spot where you would want to put a cat set later on. Just bury it down around 18" deep, and make sure you put a swivel at the ground level and another one somewhere inline between the trap and the swivel that is at ground level. I realize that with earth anchors now, you can stake down a trap quickly. This is just an option other than the earth anchor. And for those like myself who live near railroad tracks, a walk along the tracks will produce an occasional railroad plate off the side that was discarded, its easy to put it to use. Sorry if this is posted in the wrong area, but every now and then I get a rambling thought, and this is it. | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Rusty Gold! Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:20 am | |
| I will be giving all of the #3s a vinegar bath and then putting the PIT pans system with an enlarged pan on all of them. If I can get better at welding I will be laminating all of them as well. Like bucksNbows said a little TLC and hopefully they will be some cat catching machines for me next year. All springs are really strong so I was really happy with the buy of everything. | |
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