Raccoon, possum, and woodchuck in a Duke, Conibear style, 110!

Well, now I know why I was getting pulled over outs in the 110’s. Those springs must’ve either been worn out or the 120 and 160s are way, way stronger. I know the spring and the little 120 took me a few tries on each side to get the safety latches on. After watching some videos on how to set the 160 on my hand, it still took me a few tries until I figure out the technique. I have to put my foot inside the trap while kneeling. Then I squeeze the spring together on one side and physically pull it up towards the sky till it’s pinched together and then put on the safety latch. Once I figured out the technique, it still took me a few seconds to get my mojo to get that 160 latched my hand. I’m sure if I do it a bunch of times I’ll get used to it. But both the 120 and the 160 springs are 1 billion times stronger than the 110s that I have. If I had more than one of each, I would end up going to buy a tool for setting or make one. I even watched a guy on YouTube use an Irwin frame squeezing tool which I have a few weighing around. I might even try that since it’s not something I will be resetting every day anyways since I only have one of each.
 
The ice moved out for the 2nd time a few days ago. I saw something glowing white under the water a few yards from the riverbank shore this morning. I grabbed my push pole and drug it in. It was whats left of a possum stuck in my missing 110. Looks like it got caught a little forward in the snout and must have just pulled it off the stick I have it secured to and went for a walk down to the river if I had to guess.

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Figured I'd jinxed myself trying a 120 instead of a 110 this year. Garbage cans were knocked over and some digging down in the rocks by the bank so I figured I'd put it to work. It's been down there for probably a couple months with no action. It finally was set off with nothing in it and some chicken leg bones pulled out. I switched up my bait and added some imitation vanilla...wala...

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It bent the triggers and the catch latch. Got the triggers back and there's no way I'm going to bend that catch latch back without a hammer. Not that it needs to be bent back anyways it's still sets. All I can say is there's no way anything's getting out of a double spring versus that 110 they kept pulling out of after it was wearing down and loosening up. It took me quite a few minutes of fidgeting to get the stupid thing out as both those Springs are way stronger than one single in a 110. Either the 110 Springs or way weaker or mine just wore down over time.
 
I just had the set up wrong. That metal blue mailbox has about 3 inches of slop on the top and both sides. I took some brush and weaved it above and on the outsides so that way the only pathway was going through the trap. Reset and then I caught this guy.

I’m guessing what happened is the raccoon dug around the outside of that trap and set it off to pull it out of the way to get inside to get the chicken the first time around.
 
Walked out in the backyard and there was a woodchuck about an hour ago. Dropped it with the air rifle and just laid their quivering for about three or four seconds. Like it was dead and out for the count. All of a sudden it got up and ran and jumped in its hole. I grabbed my brand new 220 and set it up in front of that hole if it ends up coming back out. That one takes a little bit of talent to set. I have to kneel down and put my foot in the trap and then pull up to put the catches on the springs.
 
Short rope with a loop for your foot, string up thru both spring eyes(one side), down and back up thru. Foot in loop, pull up one loose end will compress spring pretty easy. Rope away from spring eye gap. Or get one of the many body grip setters(one that will handle 330's).
 
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