ALL ABOUT TRAP SETTERS

As I was pulling the massive beaver from the water I started looking around for a chew-off stump nearby. I had left my 330 Conibear setter at the shop that morning and I wanted to reset the trap the beaver was in. I have started the habit of setting my conibears at the shop before I head out and hold them with their safeties. Then it is just a matter of setting the trap when I make the set. I usually set the trap by putting the eye of the spring on a pointy stump and push the other end down using my weight, then latch the safety. Ditto on the other side, and the trap is set. I started using setters on conibears several years ago when my hands decided to revolt against me, squeezing the spring with one hand and flipping the safety with the other.

Since there wasn’t a stump nearby to use, I pushed the spring against the ground and removed the beaver to remake the set. Fast-forward 20 years; nowadays even pushing the spring into a pointy stump or the ball hitch