What do you do with furbearers trapped with a nuisance permit, since, by law, it is illegal to sell, barter, trade, etc., furbearers trapped with leghold and body gripping traps?
It is only illegal in the raw state, get them tanned and they are perfectly legal to sell.
My take on padded jaw traps was it had to have a gap between the steel jaws which was taken up on with the plastic. 
The coon cuffs are a body griping trap according to a fish and game officer I talked too.
There does not need to be any offset on the traps. If you are adding pads to existing traps, it is much better to use non offsets.
Travis
