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Offline Bogmaster

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FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« on: May 06, 2010, 06:49:34 AM »
 Over the decades,I have used many different traps for catching muskrats.
 When all is said and done-my favorite is the #1 stoploss.
 Tom
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2010, 07:29:31 AM »
I think my favorite is still the 1.5 longspring either single spring, or with the additon of a second spring "making" it a #2 double longspring. I like the weight of the trap, and I like the results. Some say too bulky, but thats never a problem in the areas I trap rats.

the dls is nice, because with the addition of 2 sticks through the springs, bank or hut sets can be made with little efort or fuss.

But the one I use the most, is still the 1.5 coil, simply because I got far more of them. 

The traditonal rat trap in the big marshes here was always the #1 longspring, but unless using a stoploss type, I find them to give me more wringoffs, simply due to the lighter trap not taking them down fast enough.
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2010, 01:08:41 PM »
I like the #1 stoploss and the 110 conibear.
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2010, 01:41:37 PM »
i dont trap a lot of rats but when i do i like either the 1 1/2 long springs or the 1 1/2 coils and i stake them out in the water
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2010, 08:11:08 AM »
Quote from: Bogmaster on May 06, 2010, 06:49:34 AM
Over the decades,I have used many different traps for catching muskrats.
 When all is said and done-my favorite is the #1 stoploss.
 Tom

I trapped as a kid up till an adult here in Colorado (pre-1996). Great times, nothing big...short lines for Muskrats, Beaver, Coons and Fox and Coyotes. Such good times.

At the end, just before we lost our trapping privilages, I really liked the 1.5 coil for Muskrats. I trapped a nice little crick in western Weld County in those days, and the little 1.5 really filled the bill.

The 110 conibear was another "go to" for me as well.

Miss those days.
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2010, 04:01:22 AM »
Because I always ran my coon line before I set for rats and don't do lots of rats. For many years I use to use the dirty 1 1/2 dj coils from my coon line for rats. Now I try not to have to move traps around on their stakes and rigging during season. So I sold a bunch of my odd mix traps and bought all #1 duke stoploss type traps for rats. I still have lots of 110s even use some 160s, but the duke 1# guarded do the bulk of my rat trapping now.

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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2010, 05:04:55 AM »
I'm with the #1 stoploss too. I was weened on those before Conibears were in existence.
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2010, 11:34:29 AM »
Quote from: Asa Lenon on May 16, 2010, 05:04:55 AM
I'm with the #1 stoploss too. I was weened on those before Conibears were in existence.

I had a little stretch of feeder stream that was shallow and the stoploss worked wonders for me.  8)
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2010, 03:42:24 PM »
#1 longspring stoploss, 1 1/2 coil and 110.

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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2010, 07:34:32 PM »
My Favorite 110 Victors....Dukes are JUNK!
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2010, 10:28:39 AM »
 Absolutely nothing wrong with Dukes--they have taken thousands of animals for me. All Dukes have also been revamped in the last couple of years.
 Tom
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2010, 03:34:40 AM »
duke trap ;D

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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2010, 04:22:43 PM »
# 1 stop loss is my major rat trap Mine happen to be all victor round pan types

Bryce
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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2010, 05:40:06 AM »
fishdaddy,

That is an awesome picture...Wow.  8)
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“Lost?? Hmmm... been fearsome confused for a month or two, but I ain't never been lost!”
Henry Frap the "Mountain Men"

“Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Mother Gue said to me; ‘Make your life go here, son. Here's where the people is. Them mountains is for Indians and wild men.’  "Mother Gue", I says "the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world," and by God, I was right. Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline.”
Del Gue in "Jeremiah Johnson"

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Re: FAVORITE MUSKRAT TAKERS.
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2010, 04:08:31 AM »
use a mix of #1 coils and longs here, did trade for a dozen duke 1 1/2 coils but aint got to use them for rats yet.
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