#3 Bridger (2 or 4 coil) around cattle?

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Strow1

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Has anyone ever held a cow or calf in a #3 (2 or 4 coil) trap with good lamination? Running good drags and 5-7' of chain what are the chances of actually holding a cow or calf before it powered out?

Would going from 4 coil to 2 coil be insurance against holding one?

I know that trapping around cattle is always a PAIN with snapped traps, mangled sets and other assorted hassles. I am just curious if anyone has actually held one and what the details and situation were. I can deal with the snapped traps and remakes...I'm just nervous about my luck running out and having a trainwreck.

Thanks!
 
Anchored sets might be better…it’ll give them leverage to pull out. A drag may lead to issues. I don’t trap around cattle but read about a lot of folks that do. Their advice is DON’T, lol.
 
I have trapped quite a bit around cattle. I've had sprung traps but I've not ever wondered if it were a cow or calf that set them off so to that effect I can't speak. Most, if not all of my traps have had extra coils added to them. I imagine they would hold a calf as my dad caught a doe antelope once with the same setup I use that needed to be released. All of my sets are staked, I have personally never used drags. When setting around cattle, I'm very intentional about where I make my set finding spots that cattle are highly unlikely to traverse through. Although a cow may try to avoid it, a coyote won't think twice about walking a few feet off the trail to a yucca pocket or small washout to investigate a set.
 
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