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1883 Hand Forged Kodiak Bear Trap...photos added...
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Rancher Will
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All bear traps are interesting. I have also seen photos of steel traps used in Colonial British times for Tiger Trapping, etc.
As a very young cowboy in 1948, I accidently caught a black bear in a #4 Newhouse trap that I had set for a wolf. I traded the bear hide for a double barrel Fox Shotgun, the first shotgun that I ever owned.
In those years I regularly met a Government Fish and Wildlife Service trapper, named John Ehnn. John taught me a lot about trapping predators and taught me to always carry a crescent wrench when using large bear traps, plus even a Number Four Newhouse or any Number 5 or 6 bear trap. If a trapper ever accidently catches himself in one of these traps, the crescent wrench is the tool that can be used to unscrew the nuts on the bottom of the trap to release the jaws.
As a very young cowboy in 1948, I accidently caught a black bear in a #4 Newhouse trap that I had set for a wolf. I traded the bear hide for a double barrel Fox Shotgun, the first shotgun that I ever owned.
In those years I regularly met a Government Fish and Wildlife Service trapper, named John Ehnn. John taught me a lot about trapping predators and taught me to always carry a crescent wrench when using large bear traps, plus even a Number Four Newhouse or any Number 5 or 6 bear trap. If a trapper ever accidently catches himself in one of these traps, the crescent wrench is the tool that can be used to unscrew the nuts on the bottom of the trap to release the jaws.
