First off, for raccoons, pretty much the only way to snare them is to find out where they are going into something, like into the walls of a grainery or into a hole in a hollow tree, you get the picture.... Leg-holds and conibears work a whole lot better for coons, plus....

There isn' t much else that angers me more than snares, trapping I can condone, but a snare just isn' t a good way to do it. Of course, I' m a hounder, so I' m slightly biased, but after all the snares I cut this year from property they weren' t supposed to be on, and after so many times of saving my hounds from them, I' m not very sympathetic to those that snare. Conibears are one thing, a good hound knows better than to stick his head in a bucket while he' s hunting, but when he' s following a coon' s feeding trail and suddenly gets hung up, there isn' t any way he could have avoided it.