AboutMongo Expertise I can answer most basic questions concerning predator trapping and some water trapping. Questions about lures, baits, sets, traps, trap treatment, modification, sizes, equipment, usage, etc. I have been certified by the Okla. Dept. of Wildlife Conservation, First Okla. Trapper`s Assoc., and the Okla. State Univ. Extension Service as a trapping instructor. I also have a number of years experience in predator calling and can provide some basic answers to these questions as well.
Experience
Past/Present clients As far as teaching what I know to others. I take this to be what you mean here... I have helped my son, and son in law, as well as a number of others in this area, to get started in trapping and predator calling... I have had personal instruction from professional government ADC specialists, and I have 30 years experience running my own traplines, and over a half century of experience in the outdoors...... I have a friend who is a troop leader with the Boy Scouts. I have done several demonstrations on trapping and predator calling for the boys, and on a number of occasions have helped the troop to set up and run a trapline during the winter, with proceeds going to the troop.
Expert: Mongo Date: 5/21/2008 Subject: old fashioned rabbit box trap
Question I have built a new box but have forgotten how to set the
door to close.
Answer
Hello Wayne,
Well, I couldn't positively tell you how to set the door to close, unless I could actually see and handle the box trap myself... There are many ways that box traps are made, and just as many methods of "setting" them... Of the box and/or cage traps I have personally used, I have probably seen a dozen or more ways of building the setting device on them... In fact, a friend of mine just brought a squirrel trap over last week that he bought to catch squirrels in his attic, and it had an entirely new triggering method that I had never seen before, and it took us a bit of time to figure out how it worked.
If you are still working on a triggering method for the door, perhaps these links will help...
