Upside Sets with Comstock Beaver Cage Traps
Upside down setting with Comstock beaver cages might seem gimmicky, but it now appears there is even more science to it than previously thought. Not only can a cage be dropped into a brushy sunken dams, feed piles or where ever there is debris and sticks without risk of the doors getting jammed because the doors fire upward, these cages can be made even shorter than anyone thought possible. On the first two outings with the newest experimental unheard of 32 inch short beaver cages, the result was 2 for 2, both beaver large blanket beavers. The first beaver weighed in at 45 pounds, while the second was a pound larger at 46 pounds. The body length at 30 inches was almost exactly the length of the inside of the trap door to door. With the tail, the beaver was nearly a foot longer than the entire trap, proving that if most of the beaver is in the trap when it fires, the beaver will be ushered in by the power doors that contact his back feet and then simply pull himself in the rest of the way. Taking into account, beaver sizes, trigger travel, forward inertia of the beaver, distance to center, along with the distance the door protrudes beyond the confines of the catch compartment, it could be that 32 to 36 inch traps may become more the norm than the exception. It just takes some time to move from hypothetical to experiment to the accepted method. It’s not always easy for new concepts to gain approval and people to get their head around using a shorter device. I’m still amazed.
