Pasture,
My favorite setup for coon involved boxes that I made from scrap 1" pine boards. I was using 220 conibears at the time, and built the boxes just wide enough for the 220 jaws to fit inside the front of box. Notches were cut in sides of the box for springs of the conibear to slide in to, and the boxes were long enough so coon could not reach the bait which I placed way in the back. Front of box was left open of course, and there was no bottom in the box except for one board in the back where I drove a nail to spear chunks of carp on for bait. I ran a piece of tie wire from end of one spring, wrapped it all the way around the box, and then twisted wire around other trap spring. With trap wired to front of the box that way, sometimes I didn't even stake the box down or wire it to a tree. Once a coon gets head caught in trap, he is usually dead but even if he ain't dead he can't see where he is going while carrying the box around. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif You know those little trails through the grass that are about ten inches wide and beat clear to the dirt because of so much traffic? Think "COON TRAIL" and set a few boxes beside the trail. Catches possom, skunk, and anything else (almost) that sticks his head in there.
