Definitions
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- noun A kind of
body -gripping trap designed to kill the trapped animal quickly.
Etymologies
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Yes | No | Report from cooner wrote 33 weeks 6 days ago get your self a 330 conibear and a five gallon bucket toss in some scraps from the dinner table. put the scraps in the pail laying on its side set the 330 in front of it camouflage it with hay or grass. bam dead coon. very easy cubby set that works like a charm.
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Yes | No | Report from cooner wrote 33 weeks 6 days ago get your self a 330 conibear and a five gallon bucket toss in some scraps from the dinner table. put the scraps in the pail laying on its side set the 330 in front of it camouflage it with hay or grass. bam dead coon. very easy cubby set that works like a charm.
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Although your article sited “painless, instant beaver traps”, conibear traps only meet that description if the beaver is fortunate enough to place his head in directly inside them.
Matthew Yglesias » John McCain Pretends Not to Understand What Beaver Management Is 2009
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Massachusetts last year amended its ban on leghold traps to allow certain types of trapping, including the use of conibear "body-gripping" traps, when the public health and safety are threatened.
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Massachusetts last year amended its ban on leghold traps to allow certain types of trapping, including the use of conibear "body-gripping" traps, when the public health and safety are threatened.
Leave it to Beavers 2009
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To set a conibear trap (yes, a lethal trap) to remove a squatting beaver from the town's water supply.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007
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The trap that killed the dog was thought to be a conibear, a quick-moving mechanism that kills animals instantly or nearly so.
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Yes | No | Report from cooner wrote 27 weeks 5 days ago to me it is all most six of one half dozen of the other. between coyotes and stray cats. i own a cat, and he is great (and fixed) but i live on old dairy land and people use it as a dumping ground for unwanted cats. which end up around my house. those cats normally end up with a 330 conibear for a necklace. and the coyote's well they are just scum of the earth and oxygen thief's. they die any way i can kill them, gun, bow, trap, truck it dont matter.
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Yes | No | Report from cooner wrote 27 weeks 5 days ago to me it is all most six of one half dozen of the other. between coyotes and stray cats. i own a cat, and he is great (and fixed) but i live on old dairy land and people use it as a dumping ground for unwanted cats. which end up around my house. those cats normally end up with a 330 conibear for a necklace. and the coyote's well they are just scum of the earth and oxygen thief's. they die any way i can kill them, gun, bow, trap, truck it dont matter.
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