Old bear traps?????

[colorado14ers]

ever found a old active bear trap that was forgoten years ago? I found one, but closed shut on a tree and the tree grew around it!!!! Just try not to find one with your foot!!!

 

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[Unicorn]

The cruelest way of trapping an animal, just imagine how much pain they would suffer.



U.

 

[mrwilburino]

The cruelest way of trapping an animal, just imagine how much pain they would suffer.

Absolutely! At least that one's out of commission. Cool pic though.

 

[colorado14ers]

The cruelest way of trapping an animal, just imagine how much pain they would suffer.

Absolutely! At least that one's out of commission. Cool pic though.

I hate them too, its cruel and if they forget about it might be "found" by some little kind 50 years later

 

[LM]

I'm very much pro hunting, very much anti bear baiting and trapping.
I'm pretty sure it's illegal in all states but Maine (and if I recall correctly, at some point in the not too distant past, they were moving to abolish it there too, so maybe they already have) and has been for quite some time, so there's no real call for much philosophical indignation here, since a bear trap is pretty much always going to be an artifact of the somewhat distant past.

That said, I wouldn't have any problem with people using them against two legged trespassers

 

[lumbercamp]

That is not a leghold trap (the kind that has jaws on it). It may or may not be a trap at all. If it is a trap it looks more along the line of a snare with a wide band to hold the leg of an animal and it would not be harmed at all.

 

[Swartzie]

That's pretty freakin' awesome. It's just something you'll probably never find again.
-Swartzie