Wolfdog, I suppose it's human nature to stick with what you know. What seems a strange or flawed concept to you, might seem ideal to us, and vise versa.
I do like your tealer. It would certainly work here for fox. I think you guy's tend to go more heavy duty on your gear than we do, with good reason of course. You have a lot of bigger stuff that can be snared, than we can here. We have a lot of restrictions, and so for us, fox's are as big as it gets. Also, we do a lot of our snaring/trapping on foot, so keeping things as light as possible is a must.
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