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    Best Coon Trap Stake?

    Anyone use these Berkshire cable stakes in video below when trapping? Not sure on disposable. I usually just use a 24 inch rebar stake with steel loop on end. Good thing is making sure ya have double swivels on traps.

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWQv7Mn2gvc"]Berkshire Trap Stakes, How to Use Berkshire Stakes, How to Make Berkshire Trapping Stakes - YouTube[/ame]
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    Don't know how well they work but I know one thing, don't ever set a coon trap in the back of your Kawasaki mule to trap a nuisance coon. My dad did just that this weekend. We now have the mule at the dealership having a new wiring harness and throttle cable installed. He tied the trap to the roll bar but had a little to much wire. The coon jumped over the bed and got up under it and proceeded to completely destroy the wiring harness and rear taillights.

    Sometimes education can be expensive!

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      #3
      Originally posted by berettadave View Post
      Don't know how well they work but I know one thing, don't ever set a coon trap in the back of your Kawasaki mule to trap a nuisance coon. My dad did just that this weekend. We now have the mule at the dealership having a new wiring harness and throttle cable installed. He tied the trap to the roll bar but had a little to much wire. The coon jumped over the bed and got up under it and proceeded to completely destroy the wiring harness and rear taillights.

      Sometimes education can be expensive!
      Sorry it happened to you, but that made me laugh out loud. Kill all coons!

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        #4
        Originally posted by berettadave View Post
        Don't know how well they work but I know one thing, don't ever set a coon trap in the back of your Kawasaki mule to trap a nuisance coon. My dad did just that this weekend. We now have the mule at the dealership having a new wiring harness and throttle cable installed. He tied the trap to the roll bar but had a little to much wire. The coon jumped over the bed and got up under it and proceeded to completely destroy the wiring harness and rear taillights.

        Sometimes education can be expensive!
        oh my gosh!! that is an expensive lesson to learn. Not a happy coon I take it
        had to also laugh when I read your post...I can see it!

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          #5
          LOL!!!! DONT EVER set a trap for a coon close to anything that you don't want destroyed!!

          I use Berkshires on all my coyote/cat sets, but I make my own..

          Here is a link to my raccoon anchors that I use on ALL of my coon traps.

          http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...d.php?t=439902

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            #6
            Originally posted by Tuffbroadhead View Post
            LOL!!!! DONT EVER set a trap for a coon close to anything that you don't want destroyed!!

            I use Berkshires on all my coyote/cat sets, but I make my own..

            Here is a link to my raccoon anchors that I use on ALL of my coon traps.

            http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...d.php?t=439902
            man...those are nice. I will do that. thanks!

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              #7
              Your welcome brother....In the long run with the very same stuff listed in that thread that I done, you will be able to make your own wire stakes, or loops as well as with a few other small parts that are easily ordered in mass you can make your own snares.

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                #8
                I use extra chain and cinder blocks...

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Stan R View Post
                  I use extra chain and cinder blocks...
                  hey I'm liking that idea. if a coon drags that sucker away...he deserves to live. thanks.....Ill try that too as well as make my own anchors like Tuff.

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                    #10
                    I made some of these..

                    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1xMhB0I1W4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1xMhB0I1W4[/ame]

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                      #11
                      I lost a trap yesterday. I was using 12" large metal nails and I had caught a coon on the same trap a week earlier. I guess it had loosened the stake enough to pull it out of ground. Oh well, he is stuck with it now.

                      Those cable stakes are pretty nice. I have all the stuff to make them since I make a few snares. Might give them a try

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by elkbowhunter View Post
                        hey I'm liking that idea. if a coon drags that sucker away...he deserves to live. thanks.....Ill try that too as well as make my own anchors like Tuff.
                        NO requirement to pound anything into hard ground..

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                          #13
                          Iron stakes are nice but HEAVY, a cable to loop around a tree is much lighter if you have a large number of traps. Any wild animal will destroy anything they can reach once in a trap (inside of a cage trap or surrounding a foot trap).

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