Modern Trapping Series Part 33 Using PVC in Sets

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afternoon guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school I wanted to show you guys a couple tricks today that you can use PVC for for your trapping and there's a lot of ways to use PVC to your advantage

PVC is pretty cheap packed a lot of times you can find it in the wild and you know trash is always an abundant resource unfortunately in the United States so if you can find stuff that will work for you that's great too I'm going to show you a couple tricks using 3/4 inch PVC today and there are other tricks that you can use bigger pieces of PVC for like tunnel traps and things like that culvert traps we'll talk about those down the road today we're only going to talk about two different sets using three chlorines PVC stay with me okay guys for our first set what we've done here is I have taken about a two-foot piece of 3/4 PVC and I put an elbow on it total cost on that it's probably less than a buck and you can use it over and over again what this becomes it becomes a bait holder that the animal can only get to from one side by putting it up against this tree that's on the water's edge the only way this animal can come in here now is from the front he's got to come in the water here or come in the water here to get to the front of that bait holder and that's the key to this whole thing I'll shove that bait back in there just a little ways then what we've done is we've just taken our trap chain and we've nailed it to this tree with a 16 penny nail and I've got a number three double long spring right here in the water with about a four inch offset from the front of that trap and just a little bit off to the side what we're looking for right there is a rear leg catch that's the big advantage to these long spring traps is you don't have to have the perfect trap bed because they bed themselves down in that mud and because they've got too big long Springs on the act like legs you fold them up to get that relaxed jaw or weak jaw to lay down flat and then you have almost a tripod you're setting down that water the sets done it takes less than 2 minutes to set this up and you're ready to rock and roll like I said you know

a two-foot piece of PVC 3/4 inch and one elbow what I do is actually Jam a piece of wood down in here before I put the elbow on it so it's stopped up and I just stuff that elbow with some type of meat bait right now I'm using a bait that I created myself and then there you go over and over and over again you can use this stuff so just a little tip or trick I'll call this the elbow pipe set for Coon and it is a great great set ok guys it's pretty safe to assume that there's animals crossing this log because number one there's a trail coming to it through the woods right here and number two there's some poop on it it goes almost all the way across a couple steps into the water before it hits dry land so I'd like to set a 110 Conibear up right here alright well a lot of people will hammer some kind of a piece of wood on here to do that with just a cut piece of log or whatever but if you carry a few extra pieces of PVC with you it becomes a no-brainer at that point because you can put that around the log put your trap right on top of it you don't have to worry about it anymore you can chain that right to your trap in other words you can run that wire right through your trap chain and everything set secure and one simple and one simple move ok so what we're gonna do is we're gonna run our wire right through this piece of PVC and if we didn't have this trapping wire we could use just any kind of wire coat hanger whatever in the case of a condor bear you could probably get away with using paracord when they get in that trap they're gonna be dead they're not going anywhere all you need something to secure it from getting drugged off by another animal or possibly you know washing downstream or whatever the case may be you're not really worried about that animal running off of that trap because he's not going to so we'll find a place we can get in just log with this wire just like this and we'll bring enough of it around that we can tie it off on one side well go ahead and put our Conibear chain and you can see I've got my conner berry set with a safety on it right there I like to come in with those things already done so I have to worry about doing it on the fly then I've got a couple slits cutting this PVC just a drag this wire down into just like this so it stays fairly straight and I'll adjust where that's at once I figure out where I'm going to twist this off at I'm going to twist it off right here so now I'll adjust this to where I want and twist that down with my pliers again I don't have to get too fancy with this because he's not gonna go anywhere what was that stable that's what I care about I'm gonna go ahead and squeeze this together and again I've got my safety on here because I want this thing to be stable here okay now I can set this wherever I need to and the last one is 3/4 PVC you're probably going to have to set it on the very last one that fits just about perfect so you're gonna have a very thin opening there so you want to make sure you get that thing centered if you want to widen your whiskers out a little bit by bending them that's okay too that's not going to hurt anything if you do that again I've still got a safety lock on here I'm not doing anything that's going to get me hurt ok now what I think I'm gonna do is I'm gonna adjust this just a little bit on the PVC just like this my safety back on there real quick squeeze that dude down where it needs to be there we go that's gonna be a very very touchy trigger right there very touchy all right but you can see that traps very stable they're not gonna walk around it they're gonna have to come through it to get across here unless it's a really good-sized animal but what you're hoping for in something like this with a 110 Conibear if you're looking for a man cam uh scrap squirrel something of that nature is what you're really looking for right here and this will definitely catch him without a doubt so we'll see what happens guys I just want to show you a couple easy ways to use PVC you can make that piece longer or shorter depending on how wide the log was or what you're trying to do there you could use the same system for a 220 if you wanted to if you're allowed to set those on land you would just have to at that point use like one inch one and a half inch PVC let's set the measure where your dogs at how wide the opening is this is 3/4 you could use one-inch if you wanted to you could use an inch and a quarter all of them will work I just like to use a smaller diameter so I don't have to so far they have to step up to go through my trap okay guys one Dave Canberra the Pathfinder school I hope you enjoyed those two quick PVC tricks for trapping with 110s and trapping Coons with foothold type traps I appreciate you joining me for this video I thank you for everything you do for me for my school for my family I'll be back with another video in this trapping series as soon as I can you