Conibear traps

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Have any of you had a dog that got caught in a conibear trap while hunting?
I carry a rope and have watched the Utubevideo on removing the trap--but I really wonder if you have a chance to save the dog. I know there are racoon traps in the area where I'm hunting pheasants, tho not sure if the dog would get it's head deep enough into a 220 conibear to hurt it.
Any direct experience with this?
 
My friend and I are both bird hunters and trappers. We've discussed this on occasion and believe that the chances of saving a dog in a 220 are slim. I'm sure there are plenty of cases that a dog has been saved, but it's our belief that those are times when the incident happens within sight of the person. If one has to hear are beeper go on point mode and then locate the dog, the dogs chances are reduced dramatically.
I'll relate this incident. One the opening weekend of this years Indiana quail season, we were hunting land my friends son traps. He was advised to go trip his 220's and said he had. While hunting a waterway, my dog was coming to where a culvert ran under a horse fence. I heard a racket, seen the dog jump back and at first thought he had got lit up by the fence. He wouldn't go near the fence to come back to me, so I retrieved him. After looking closer, I see a 220 that had been tripped. Putting two and two together, my friend phoned his son. Turns out he figured we wouldn't be in that area so didn't trip that one. Luckily, I believe because the trap wad set low to the ground, the dog never got much more than his nose in and only took a crack in the face. My friend rescinded his adult son's trapping privileges on that property for the year to teach him a lesson that'll hit him in the wallet.

Stay safe!
 
hopefully it would give you time to get the dogs head out. I bet a dog would probably make one hell of a noise if it got its head caught in one.
 
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jdecker said:
hopefully it would give you time to get the dogs head out. I bet a dog would probably make one hell of a noise if it got its head caught in one.
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Nope, in most cases they make no vocalizations, there are suffocating.
 
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