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According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, a tool is defined as “an instrument for performing a task.”
Practical trappers employ many different tools in their quest for success and efficiency. There are almost as many techniques, capture strategies and capture devices as there are critters.
If there is one personality trait that all trappers share, it is the constant need to tinker, to look for a better way, to solve problems. As old as this pursuit is, there is a constant quest to seek out new sets, new methods, new approaches, new materials, new devices and to consider variations on established techniques. The acceptance of the dogproof trap, the expanded use of snares and the brainchild of Frank Conibear, which all revolutionized the trapping world, are examples of this kind of nimble, dynamic process in the works. As the old saying goes, “if you can build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your
