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Post by musher on Oct 30, 2007 15:43:14 GMT -6
I had a fox chew a snare and escape. It's happened a few times in past years but way back when it never occurred.
Is the cable I bought crappy?
Do fox ever do that in your area?
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Post by Stef on Oct 30, 2007 17:08:47 GMT -6
Time to get "hi-tech" snares  BTW.. had a nice day on beavers... will phone you this week..later |
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Post by JWarren on Oct 30, 2007 17:09:17 GMT -6
never had it happen, was it wrapped up? if wrapped and twisted maybe a body catch, what size cable
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Post by bobwendt on Oct 30, 2007 17:14:23 GMT -6
I`ve had fox chew 3/32 rarely, coyotes 50%, on 24 hr cks. I use all 1/8th now and finally last winter even had a coyote chew a 1/8th in two. I caught him back in 2 days in a steel trap, still wearing the 1/8th snare and I mean so tight he should have been dead. he had one ear thru and right under the jaw and the sob was fighting the trap like a tiger. he was an aged mangy male one fox chewed one in two and 7 days later I re-snared it 1.8 miles away and it had that snare down to a thread and never even made a ring that time, just started chewing. I`ve re-snared quite a few coyotes, some months later. I know they were my snares as they were still wearing them. it was terrible too, what they looked like. my advice is if ever in doubt, run bigger cable. ME, I`d rather have some refusals or misses than know some poor sob is wearing a snare of mine. r a pulled stake , neither one is pretty. staying with cross staking I`ve never had a stake jacked ,and so far only one 1/8th chewed in two, and I got him back to re-deem myself. I have had a couple j hooks fail on me that I never did get the coyote or trap back. burns me and makes me feel bad at the same time. but I catch plenty of pegs and de-toed ones from others to make up for my transgressions. a guy can only do the best he can do. if he does that, then his conscience should be clear. one thing is a cinch, were the shoe on the other foot, a coyote wouldn`t give a rats hiney how he treated me. but that`s why we are human and they are animals.
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Post by musher on Oct 30, 2007 17:51:42 GMT -6
I've had them chew 1/16 and 3/32. It's been 7x7 and 1x19. I've caught them later, too.
It could have tangled but didn't. It chewed the brush up plenty, too.
Peeves me off to no end.
Hi-tech snares take a while to set up. One thing I have in limited amounts is time. I am using them this year in a few wolf spots. The day a BAD opens on a wolf I'll be peeved, too! Of course if it saves me a moose encounter I'll feel pretty clever.
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