My main project at right now is collaring black bears. Having never been a trapper, it was a very steep learning curve to go from no experience to live-trapping bears. But I'm getting it down and have been pretty successful recently. Here is a typical set. The area is baited for a few days prior to trapping with an array of foods and scents to get a bear in the area. The bucket is then set up with a spring. A goodie is placed on the trigger of the spring. When the bear reaches into the bucket and tugs on the snack the spring cinches a cable down around its wrist. You can see I have remote transmitters set. These tell me when the spring has been tripped so I can go check for a catch.
Once caught I have to shoot the bear with a dart to deliver the drugs that make handling the bears possible. It can be pretty exciting to walk in on a bear tethered by only a 3/16" cable. In this pic the bear is getting pretty sleepy.
Getting sleepier. This is just moments before it conked out and slid out of the tree onto the ground.
Just about got this bear wrapped up and ready for release.
Here she is groggily waking up from her nap and all blinged out.
My main project at right now is collaring black bears. Having never been a trapper, it was a very steep learning curve to go from no experience to live-trapping bears. But I'm getting it down and have been pretty successful recently. Here is a typical set. The area is baited for a few days prior to trapping with an array of foods and scents to get a bear in the area. The bucket is then set up with a spring. A goodie is placed on the trigger of the spring. When the bear reaches into the bucket and tugs on the snack the spring cinches a cable down around its wrist. You can see I have remote transmitters set. These tell me when the spring has been tripped so I can go check for a catch.
Once caught I have to shoot the bear with a dart to deliver the drugs that make handling the bears possible. It can be pretty exciting to walk in on a bear tethered by only a 3/16" cable. In this pic the bear is getting pretty sleepy.
Getting sleepier. This is just moments before it conked out and slid out of the tree onto the ground. 
Just about got this bear wrapped up and ready for release. 
Here she is groggily waking up from her nap and all blinged out.
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