I started using Duke 550s & some 650s this year and absolutely love them! I caught 3 coyotes and 2 red fox in the same trap at the same set & no problems at all!!

@adkoutdoorsman

3 жыл бұрын

I love hearing about other peoples success with them

Love watching your videos man! Hope all has been well with your family.

Awesome video 👍

Nice looking steel

Nice video

@adkoutdoorsman

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks and thanks for watching

I like my duke and mb 550s. But after trying the new duke #2 dogless I won't be buying anymore 550s. 4 coil dogless square jaw for way less money a dozen. Add a jt shock spring best coyote trap on the market imo

Nice vid

@adkoutdoorsman

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

How are they for raccoons?

@adkoutdoorsman

3 ай бұрын

i have caught raccoons in them but i prefer dog proofs when it comes to raccoons

How do I claim the thing I won from the giveaway

@adkoutdoorsman

3 жыл бұрын

I just need an address on where to send it can you get ahold of me on Facebook or Instagram

Man, I used box traps and legholds for years when I was younger, but with the potential to severely injure an unintended animal or child, and the fear that the animals go through, now I really think these should be illegal to be set. Either shoot them on foot or use a cage trap.

@adkoutdoorsman

3 жыл бұрын

I'm having a very hard time taking your comment seriously when you say hurting a child. Any trapper knows better than to think a human no matter the age is gonna be caught by a trap that measures 5 1/2 inches when perfectly flat it's just not possible. For all the unintended animals that your worried about we have laws in place that if you follow them then you just about eliminate catching them and even if you do they are not gonna be hurt anyways. (As shown by my videos of me putting my hands in traps). As far as the fear how is a raccoon that is sleeping when I arrive more afraid than the one hiding in a tree with multiple dogs trying to eat it below. Leg hold traps are the most effective management tool for nocturnal predators which is why they are used by biologists and wildlife conservation agency's for both relocation programs and wildlife studies. So while I applaud you concern for animal well being I can't help but question if you actually are a trapper with first hand knowledge or an anti trapper who is just repeating the invalid and false arguments that are always made.

@updatemysettings5095

3 жыл бұрын

@@adkoutdoorsman A 5 inch trap is probably not going to hurt a child severely. but some of the older steel traps with 50 or 60 pounds of pressure to reset will, and there are tens of thousands of those still around. I trapped raccoons in handhold traps in trees, coyotes in leg holds, muskrats in wire-box traps and many skunks and possums that were pests around the farm. From your age in the video I can tell you that I was doing this before you were born. Leghold traps are terrifying to the animals that get caught in them, and it's just not worth that kind of suffering to get a pelt. Biologists absolutely do not use leg hold traps with any regularity, there is no university or organizational ethics oversight committee or IACUC in the US that would allow that in a study proposal in 2021.

@adkoutdoorsman

3 жыл бұрын

@@updatemysettings5095 so your primary argument that all traps should be illegal us because of the possibility of someone breaking the law and using one that is already illegal. That's like making advil illegal so people don't abuse morphine. Leg holds are not used in studies. Well that makes the fisher study that I was apart of what a dream? And again with the claims of fear caused to animals while I still appreciate your concern I have a hard time seeing a raccoon sleeping untill it is killed instantly with a well placed shot to the brain as somehow experiencing more fear than one treed by a pack of dogs trying to eat it then being shot through the lungs as it drowns on its own blood and falling to the dogs below it. Again your arguments are not based in fact or science but just in feelings that you have projected on to the animal.

@updatemysettings5095

3 жыл бұрын

@@adkoutdoorsman My primary argument is that leg hold traps are not the most humane and safe way to harvest furs. This is my opinion on the matter taken from my experience in watching the animals I have caught over the years. You are definitely right that having a pack of dogs tree an animal scares the hell out of it too, but I have seen foxes and coyotes panicking in the legstraps with a look of terror and know they have been there for hours. I will tell you what. Lets meet in the middle. a bluetooth transmitter costs about 2 dollars wholesale. A trapline can easily be setup where a trap is within 100 feet of the next. For an extra 3 dollars a trap someone could build these to go on each trap and would let you know immediately that a trap was sprung on the line and that its still moving around (somethings caught). That would make it so that no animals are waiting around in leg holds. It wouldn't require any cell phone or any service, would just me one trap talking to the next and you keep a little buzzer in your pocket.

@adkoutdoorsman

3 жыл бұрын

While I really like your Bluetooth idea I don't think I would work for me my traps are set fifteen miles from my house. But realistically it wouldn't make much of a change for me since I check my traps when I get out of work at 2am them again at 8am. But still great idea for someone trapping bluetooth range.

I would rather pay a couple bucks more for the original mb550 that was designed and manufactured in the U.S. than a china reverse engineered copy cat.

@adkoutdoorsman

3 жыл бұрын

I respect that. That's for watching the video and thanks for the comment.