THE COMSTOCK MULTIPURPOSE TRAP

The multipurpose trap, designed for denning animals living in either free standing dens or dens under buildings, is the most versatile trap ever developed.  This trap is a double door trap made to take animals coming or going, woodchucks, skunks, rabbits etc.  There is an opening in the bottom of the trap, another at the end of the trap and one on each side of the trap, meaning there is virtually no position or situation this trap with 4 openings can't handle.

While single door traps will take only animals living in the den at the time the trap is set, this trap will not only take the animal living in the den, but he one returning to the den.

With the side entrances on the nose cone portion with the 4 openings, the trap can be placed parallel to buildings, either way.  This comes in handy when there is a large object, trees or brush opposite the den.

Other double door traps may have this nose cone portion with 2 openings, but none have 4 like the Comstock Multipurpose trap.

 

You don't have to worry about catching big beaver in Comstock Cages.  Pictured above is a 61 pound beaver taken in a 12x12x36, the largest beaver taken in the smaller Comstock Beaver Cage Trap to date.  Information and pictures acquired from others using traps with the same size opening, 12x12, indicate that this is not an unusual occurrence, but to be expected.  I have also seen a picture with a 58 and 64 pound beaver in cages of this size.  Though the traps are only 36 inches long, it took a 44 inch long beaver!  

This is another 66 pound beaver taken in a standard 12x18 Comstock Beaver Cage Trap.  One trapper in Massachusetts claims to have caught dozens of 60 pound beaver, some 70 pound beaver and even a couple of 80 pound beaver in untrapped areas in the Comstock Swim Through Beaver Cage Traps.

Positive Side Effects of Cages

Besides the fact that cages go in fast and easy and rarely sprung, even if they are sprung it is usually not a beaver that did it.  On the rare occasion that it is a beaver, that beaver still may be caught in the same cage when the traps are set at a different location in a different manner.

All that aside, since cages do not require, tying off of any kind with wire or other and don't need staking or stabilizing either, they are difficult to spot by lay persons or even trappers because no one is looking for them.  There is nothing to look for.  There are no "tell tale" signs of them found with other methods.  When a catch is made under water, out of sight, it "doesn't exist."  This week I had 10 cages set in muddy clay water.  Muddy water can be a plus.  A trapper moved in on top of me, planted a half dozen 330 Conibears around the cages and had no idea the cages were in place though he would have had to almost step on one of them.

New Record For Us

Amazing, today we caught a 61 pound beaver in a 12x12x36 inch cage, the largest beaver we have taken in a trap this size.  Six beaver were taken at a single location in the Comstock swim through beaver cage traps, while 3 of them were taken at a single castor lure set.  This adds more information and fuels the argument for shorter traps with the realization that swim through, wire trigger cage traps with powered doors don't need to be as long as once thought.    

POWDER COATING began last week on all of the 9x11, 12x12 and 12x18 Comstock Cages

A long time in the works, powder coating is now a feature of all of the larger framed cage traps.  Not only will the frames be coated, but the entire trap will get the powder coating, even the cage wire.  The traps will be a flat black in color, requiring no additional covering to hide the shiny cage wire.  Best of all, the price will remain the same!

How to remove a raccoon from your house

Jim Horton of Quality Pro Pest and Wildlife Services captured this raccoon, demonstrating the incredibly fast powered Comstock Cage Trap doors.

Large beaver in 32 inch cage and small fish in a 5x5x24

Today we broke the size record for beaver taken in a 32 inch trap, 52 pounds.   Also there was a new record for small set in the squirrel trap in the form of a 1-1/2 inch sunfish caught in a 5x5x24 inch trap.