So I bought a dozen new traps this year. I got the #3 Modified Bridgers from Minnesota Trapline Products.
Heard really good things about them. They look great and I was really excited about getting them in the ground. I spent about a week stretch trapping with them and I lost more animals in those 6-7 days than I have in the last 3 years. I was checking my traps every day. Probably between 12 and 18 hours between checking.
I had some traps just covered in blood, some hair left in the trap jaws, bone and flesh in some of them. I figured from the sign left around the traps that I had lost 4 coyotes and 3 bobcats, near as I could tell.
I am so frustrated. I just don't understand what I am doing wrong. The other traps that I have are just #3 dukes. I never have lost that many things with them.
Heard really good things about them. They look great and I was really excited about getting them in the ground. I spent about a week stretch trapping with them and I lost more animals in those 6-7 days than I have in the last 3 years. I was checking my traps every day. Probably between 12 and 18 hours between checking.
I had some traps just covered in blood, some hair left in the trap jaws, bone and flesh in some of them. I figured from the sign left around the traps that I had lost 4 coyotes and 3 bobcats, near as I could tell.
I am so frustrated. I just don't understand what I am doing wrong. The other traps that I have are just #3 dukes. I never have lost that many things with them.