No sheep dogs where I'm trapping and not many lions. Utah doesn't require deer stops but we need to have breakaways on snares which allows livestock and deer to get out. If I catch a lion in a foothold trap I'll release him with the catchpole I built
I did see the results of the Idaho fur sale and yeah not good. I've been making my coyote loops 12" and bobcat at 8". I've bought most of my stuff from the snare shop and it has been only taking three days to get my orders to me here in Utah. I ordered a bunch of traps from Scheels and it took fifteen days to get my order.
This is my first season snaring so I picked up 13 books and 6 videos (some just trapping and some on snaring) to shorten the learning curve. I've been making and using snare extensions for places that I need to use them. I bought 700' of 3/32"s South Korean cable and a few hundred feet of 1/16" for bobcats. I've got about five dozen leghold traps but would like to at least double that amount. I've settled on Bridger dogless #2 & #3's but I've got some Montana's and a couple dukes as well.
I tried the bucket thing but that sucks to hike with so I've been using a backpack and just been modifying it to work for everything.