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TeacherMan:

--- Quote from: Loup Loup on July 05, 2024, 01:24:45 PM ---Just open the snare loop. No reason to cut the cable.

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I’d still recommend having cutters, especially if it take you any amount of time to find your dog. I have no idea how many animals I’ve taken that had twisted the cable to the point you couldn’t open it, including my own English springer years ago. He was fine because his thick hair, he had  decided to take himself for a walk while I was at work. I had my urban fox line when I lived in AK. There was just over 1,000 acres across the rd from my house I had a loop in. I made the mistake of taking him with me at night for his walk when I checked it. My wife called me at work saying he had gotten out and she couldn’t find him. Right away I knew he had went down the line. First snare I got to had him in it, he got very lucky the micro loc didn’t like his thick coat.

Loup Loup:
When these guys are hunting with their dogs, if a dog gets in a snare, it stops and waits to be let off the leash. It’s easy. I would call your situation a free roaming dog issue. I’ve never seen a dog twist a snare cable at all.
Also I’ve caught a couple lost hounds, and one lost chukar dog, and returned them to their owners.
I was called by a musher. He’d had a dog get off the chain and he couldn’t catch it. It was eating a dead deer along the rr tracks and he was afraid it was going to get hit by the train. I set foothold traps and had it in a couple days. No problems.
As I said, just open up the loop and let your dog out. Or open the trap and let your dog out. No sense in spending more time and energy destroying another’s gear.

lewy:
Klein lineman pliers or fencing pliers from the feed store

Ridgeratt:
These and if there's a stainless wire it wont Knick the cutting edge.

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TeacherMan:
Idaho required my daughter and I to take trappers ed when we moved here even though I’ve trapped over 30 yrs. The gentleman that taught the class out of Orofino said he gives out several pair of cable cutters a yr to all the hound guys in his area like the ones I posted. Lineman pliers don’t cut cable snares very well, even good ones. They are great on wire, not good on cable. It surprises people, most have never actually tried cutting a 3/32 cable. I can say I’ve cut and made 100s if not 1000s of snares. There is one tool you use to cut with. The thread was asking what actually cuts cable. And not ever dog sits, I know this first hand. I’ve returned collars with tags before to owners. With all the different kinds of locks and kill springs on snares and the thickness of a dogs hair it can be near impossible to reverse the lock. I also recommend carrying a piece of rope and a wooden dowel for larger conibear traps. Practice opening 330s a few times with it and you’ll be pretty fast at it.

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