1.5 Coil or #2 DBL ?

[Wackyquacker]

I'm leaning toward the 1.5 coil cause I can four coil them :roll: ;







No no no, I don't want to hold him...he's gonna be real mad and a pain to release

By the way an Altoids can measures 3.75 inches.  That makes his rear pad around 2.5 to 3 inches across.  Wacky needs to carry a bigger gun! :eek:

[Jacktheknife]

An interesting and valid question,  A good one.
I have been looking for some used 1 1/2s coils this year. I have lots of #2 L. S.s
Most of them I got from an old gentleman who passed away 14 years ago. Old Floyd Macbeth... Dallas Tx.   Made lure,  I only met him once but he was like a friend you have known since the fourth grade. He was buried with three #1  L. S.s  in his hand. I remember him telling his wife " wrap my fingers around the rings like this here! " Real good! " And they better not have any flowers covering them either!"                                                                She said O. K. floyd O. K.  smiling...                                                      Long way to go to heaven and drop your traps on the way because they were not tight in your hands. He told me and also another friend who passed away about the same time, Ted {bobcat} Conally, said the same thing!               #2 L. S. s  are the perfect trap!  Anything,  from a possum to a coyote, gets in a #2, and it  is caught!  period.   It doesn't tear up  their paw so bad, It is cheap, light,  and it will hold anything!
            A little more trouble to bed,  but thats what I thought,              now I am coming around to their way of thinking.

[Corey Hain]

Hey WQ, thats what i will be looking for in about a month, taking my wife, and oldest boy to Utah to try to tree one of them longtails,  the guy i hunt with turned loose on a tom last thursday, the dogs caught it on the ground, the lion had a trap on his foot and pulled the stake, said it was pretty hard on his hounds, the lion finally got the chain caught around a sapling and pulled out.   Have you ever had to release a cougar?   Corey

[Wackyquacker]

Jack, I never put any 2 dbls in the ground.  A lot of #3s and #4s.  I'm just about ready to hang up my dbls... the coils are just a bunch  easier to deal with; smaller hole, less waxed dirt, smaller, fully adjustable, easy and cheap to keep powered up etc.  Most traps will hold critters when caught, for a while anyhow,  the problem is getting them caught sometimes.

Corey, I have this safe way to remove them buggers some time I'll reveal it :roll:

[Jacktheknife]

Here in Texas when it rains the world turns to mud!
I can set a #3 longspring easy it and me covered in mud, just break it over my knee and set it,   but a coil that big is a slippery trap to hold in your hands and try and set.                 Thank you   J. Knife