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I was always petrified of setting those 330's. If you were caught in one you're not getting out by yourself! I had one set in a barn for a raccoon that was killing the farmers chickens. It was set in front of a 5 gallon bucket with bait in the back. Coons are not trap shy at all.

It was a harmless situation with no risk of non target species. However the farmer had a giant mixed breed dog. Looked mostly like an Akita, or something like that. Hard to really tell it was mangie and oily looking from laying around in the barn, and where they worked on equipment. It was at my age then,.... the meanest living thing on earth. He kept in on a 100 feet of chain when he was not home in front of the house. The idiot would chase me at full speed every time I arrived to check the traps and fly up into the air backwards when the chain ran out. Every single time! He was truly an idiot of a dog.

So I'm there with my then 10 year old brother in my jeep. I get out to go check the coon trap before we head to the pond for the ice hockey game. It was middle of winter. On my way to the barn the idiot dog comes for me,.. and about the time the chain would normally flip him over backwards it breaks and the dog is now free to come for me. I ran my ass off ( thankful noticing this) and jump for the barn interior ladder to the hay loft. Ha Ha! I made it safe and he cannot get me!

However after about 5 minutes I'm thinking my little brother is gonna come looking for me. He would be shook like a rag by this beast. HHHMMMM well there is no coon in the trap....... I can climb over to the other side with the dog following my every movement. Sure enough he sees the bait and WHACK, one giant dog dead as a rock. A few kicks and a a gasp then it's over.

So the farmer will kill me now, but what was I gonna do? The Farmer ended up not caring one bit. He said it was actually a relief because he was afraid that beast would kill somebody or badly hurt them and he would be sued. So I kept up with the trap line and never had a problem.

The biggest takeaway though was being a man about the whole thing and telling him what I did in the first place. I could have carried that dead dog away and never said a word.