Choosing the Best Cage Trap, Revisted

Because our first business is and has always been Animal Damage Control, we not only produce the best cage traps available, we use them every day, almost exclusively.  Better than mere testing, we are in the field making a living with the same traps we sell.  Others produce traps, we use them.

The term best is subjective, so we like to quantify.  In drawing comparisons, our traps have undergone a metamorphosis, evolving from first using Conibear type trigger systems derived from the Conibear trap to invention an entirely new trap with unequalled stability, yet sensitive simplistic trigger system used in all of our cage traps in one form or another.

There are many subtleties that at a glance you could miss, lots to look at and understand when making comparisons.  In comparing, we spot weld the cage wire onto the door frames, no clips.  Where others use wads of small clips that can and do come off, we use heavy 12 gage clips and equally heavy wide metal banding.  Our cage wire for the beaver traps is a stout 12 gage, not 14 gage.   Some manufacturers powder coat cage frames, while we powder coat the entire trap, wire and all.  The large wide mouthed 12x18 beaver trap has no comparison.  No one else makes them.  Ours can be set in any position.  The 12x12 beaver trap is priced better than any competition, $20-$45 less!  Trigger pressure can be varied, unique to Comstock Cage Traps.  Even trigger travel can be selected at the time of manufacture.  Our traps have no hair trigger, no matter how the post an U bar are oriented.  The door system is free floating, which means even when sticks are in between the door and frame the doors lock as they should.  An added bonus is that all parts are internal, nothing to hang up on other gear in transit or catch on brush etc.  Since we use the traps ourselves we have taken the time to go part by part, feature by feature and line by line to compare and solve the pitfalls of cage trapping.