Superior Trigger in Comstock Panless Traps
All of the panless traps we produce have one common characteristic, simply the most stable, consistent, sensitive trigger system available in cage traps, a big plus for setting, placing, and firing to take animals large or small without issue.
With standard pan type trigger systems or wire triggered traps that use conibear type triggers, triggers that have moved even slightly after setting in what is often an undetectably small amount of travel, triggers become very “touchy.” If one of these cage traps is jarred by the user or an animal, the trap may fire prematurely, even before the animal has entered the trap. Pan type triggers have a range of sensitivity dictated by where the door catch contacts the door itself, very light to heavy, difficult to see or understand if the trigger is heavy or light.
With the swing bar and swing panel triggers on the Comstock traps there is no accidental light or heavy setting. All of these traps have wide, easily seen contact points. The trap is set no heavier or lighter by the position of the contacts between the trip rod and swing bar. It is always the same every time, no guess work. Though the amount of trigger travel may be more or less if the trigger contact is off center, the amount of pressure required to fire the trap remains exactly the same. Also, the trap will fire exactly in the same prescribed position each time, no surprises.
On the larger heavy duty traps trigger pressure can be varied by positioning the door hook either close to or farther from the trip rod. You are in command with the ability to regulate the pressure needed to fire the trap since the door hook position can be easily seen. No other traps afford this option or reliability. Even the small squirrel traps have the same stability as the larger raccoon and beaver traps.
Because of the features incorporated into the triggers, traps that are rolled over or even tossed into the water remain set and stabile and at the same time, sensitive enough to catch a small muskrat in the beaver traps and sensitive enough to capture a mouse in the squirrel traps.
