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I was looking at a used live catch trap, but they won't lower the price for me. I'm holding out for now. It's nice to see that they work though. Working on the edit tomorrow, should have something together shortly.
As always, thank you for keeping us up to date on the most effective methods. I really like this concept of harvest as it eliminates all the worry about my jack russels getting into trouble. Thanks again.
It was evident you knew how to make a cage trap adapt to the situation, such as the position of the bait sticks and lure. What is also good is how someone might use your information to adapt a standard pan trap design to other sets. Your helping our industry.
Hello meat trapper I have been following your channel for some time and I am very glad you brought out this video. I live in Washington state where we are restricted to cage trapping only. I have looked into both Kirk dekalbs and Jim comstocks traps as a purchase but as you mentioned they are very exspensive in cost and I could not find it within my budget. Through a local forum,I found information and was able to construct my own traps in 2 different sizes 12x12x 40 and 12x18x40 with spring powered doors and conibear triggers and I have built five traps so far. This is my second year trapping and my first year targeting beaver. For three weeks now I have been trapping beaver hard and produced 9 the largest being 53lbs. I appreciate your videos so much with butchering and cooking instruction and I have been eating all my catches. My wife and both my young sons and I all enjoyed it. Wonderful delicious organic meat! Thank you so much for all you do! Feed yourself free yourself thank you again and god bless brother!
Marcus Norman Man that is cool! I'd love it if maybe you could post a link to the forum. That would make a great video "How to build a powered cage trap"! Any great job!
The Meat Trapper. hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?board=49.0 this is my local state forum that has a trapping section there are many good threads for cage building many different designs (gravity doors, powered doors, guillotine style doors colony doors, multiple different trigger designs) I personally used 1/4 cold roll steel rod for the frame, 1 1/2 coil springs for the doors, 1x2" 14ga wire to wrap it and 330 trigger and dog in,my traps and it has worked very well. caught a few muskrats in them as well total cost about 30$ per trap for materials and parts. bonus the 12x18 when layed on its side can be used in a trail set or with only one door set it doubles as an excellent bobcat trap!
The Meat Trapper. hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?board=49.0 this is my local state forum that has a trapping section there are many good threads for cage building many different designs (gravity doors, powered doors, guillotine style doors colony doors, multiple different trigger designs) I personally used 1/4 cold roll steel rod for the frame, 1 1/2 coil springs for the doors, 1x2" 14ga wire to wrap it and 330 trigger and dog in,my traps and it has worked very well. caught a few muskrats in them as well total cost about 30$ per trap for materials and parts. bonus the 12x18 when layed on its side can be used in a trail set or with only one door set it doubles as an excellent bobcat trap!
The Meat Trapper and thank you for all you do in helping others and sharing your wealth of information! if you have any questions my screen name on the forum is Norman89. ill be glad to help you in anyway I can in constructing cage traps for your line and so will several others on that forum. the welding is pretty easy with 1/4 rod if you have a 110 mig or even fluxcore welder it doesn't have to be pretty to catch a beaver I have found out! although just for my own ocd I plan to implement you "dip painting" method on my cages after the season to help camouflage them in that extra bit and look good to my trapping buddies haha
I've been live trapping beaver for the last year or so since Maine has cracked down on off season nuisance jobs. Do not underestimate just a single falling door Freedom Brand Bobcat cage placed right in a dryland trail either! Just make sure to stake it down so their buddies don't flip it. A lot cheaper trap too!
McKnight Wildlife, LLC. Great tip sir, I will definitely check it out Good the hear that it's not only cheaper, but that they work. Thanks for the tip!
Great Video. I Have seven heavy wire traps. I cleared out 21 feral cats from a trailer park last February in 21 days. All went to a shelter (but I know they were probably "put down"). I leave the open un-baited traps in the yards and I catch squirrel and cottontails. The best part is that I don't pay these seven employees any salary.
Boy now aint that slick! I wish there was a thumbs up icon for us viewers to put in our comments, so all I could do was give you thumbs up for you video above. God Bless my friend!
The Meat Trapper I know it works on squirrels, I have a freezer full to prove it. But your ideas to set for squirrel off the ground will be interesting tried it but it sounds like it will work. Can't wait to see your technique.
MT: That was some good feedback you gave to "The Black Trapper". What a good kid, huh? I hope you two can indeed get together someday, & don't be selfish & keep it all to yourselves, put it on video! ;- )
Great video ! Dekalb makes a awesome trap. $150.00 may sound high, but compared to other options of live catch, it's less than half the price. Im ordering one and going to use extra long earth anchor with a pad lock to try to help prevent theft.
I was thinking of the same type of anchor. I'm going to make a few with 1/8" cable just to make it even more difficult for someone to steal. I am really liking these traps. I'm running some experiments this weekend with different beaver sets covered by multiple game cams. Another thing I'm going to do is spray paint them for camo purposes to break up the black outline. Black is an unnatural color in the woods so I'm thinking brown, green and tan.
Be sure and call him before ordering to make sure he has what you want in stock. If he doesn't answer his cell - just leave a message and he'll call back.
impressive!I've been wanting to do the same thing,local Co-op has very well made traps like that but a lot bigger and over 300 bucks...but I did get 6 ts 85's (sweet)and 6 Bridger #2 dogless think I'm gonna be happy with those as well!
I would like to thank you for your great video is there any way I can you few pics my 11 year old caught his first beaver last week with what he learned from your videos
Are there nutrias in your area? Back when I trapped in South La., I did pretty well. This was in the 70s, and $8 for a #1 hide as a good price (and nutrias taste good).
What kind of trap is this? I tried using one of those useless "Havahart" ones and the beaver absolutely destroyed the "beaver" one. I'd like to live trap the beavers that are causing problems on my land, to avoid any by-catch.
Leonard Urban You can buy from Kirk at trappintales.com/AT/?v=400b9db48e62. He's a great guy and very honest. Tell him MeatTrapper sent you. He has traps big enough for coyotes, so they should hold smaller hogs.
Nice application. Yes, more and more states have gone anti-kill trapping. But, hey charge the heck out of them every time someone needs a nuisance job.
I've been hearing some trappers have been switching to using rust convertors on their traps instead of dying and waxing. what are your thoughts on that method? I'll include a link to one of the vendors of the product store.interstateproducts.com/products/Rust_Converter
