round jaw traps

[Steve Gappa]

schoolboy asks bob and others- bob i see u r a die hard round jaw man what is the reason for you doing so and what is your thought about more/less holding surface between the two?

[SgtWal]

A couple selling points were that the paw would center its self easier, and that all points within the jaws were the same distance from the pan center.
Never saw any real difference in holding power myself.


wayne

[walkercoonhunter(Aaron L.)]

for me round jaw is easier to bed in a smaller pattern...smaller pattern means easier to guide the foot to the pan...i love small patterns so thats the big reason i use round jaws....

[robertw]

I'm not Bob, well I am but I am the "other" Bob (LOL!).

Any trap, round or square jawed can be made to work...But, my personal preferance is for the round jawed trap.

In heavier soils and frosty / frozen ground the round jawed trap with the same identical spring strength and jaw face thickness's as a square jawed trap have a definite advantage when it comes to busting through cover and getting the job done.

Round jawed traps and semi-round jawed traps (Sterling would be an example of semi-round)always come through cover faster than squared jawed traps with the same jaw thicknesses and spring strength.

My personal observation has been that many times round jawed traps are still functioning past the point where square jawed traps were rendered inoperable.

I only care about what puts the most fur in the truck at the end of the day.

[trappnman]

I don't know if the brush is that big to say all round jaws come up faster than square jaws. Much would be the design of the springs to the trap.

In any case, I use round jaws on coon and water and used to use a lot on coyotes.

But on coyotes, I do like the square jaw pattern just for the reason that you have more inside space in a square than you do in a comparative sized circle.

end results I am sure are the same.

[jsevering]

some view the round jaw, like slim mentioned from time to time, to have more of a surface grip on the paw......
point a to b on a straight line vrs pt a to b on a semi arc........ it would also seem at least to me a round jaw would work with the spring levers and pull of the animal to tighten up some,if center swiveled...... even if measured in micro fractions, not sure others would look at it that way or even consider if it would matter....jim

[briankroberts]

I'm the other side of the fence when it comes to Coyotes, used round jaws and square jaws, square fits me better, and I've had less problems with them over the years, as far as coming up out of the frost I always thought if I had frosted/frozen traps I 've got bigger problems than what kind of trap I'm using , cause at some point it changes from frost to froze, to me I'd rather have some form of antifreeze to insure I don't have to worry about that......B......