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Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 040 - Game and Fish CommissionSubagency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations
Chapter 4 - FURBEARING ANIMAL HUNTING OR TRAPPING SEASONS
Section 4-8 - Trap and Snare Specifications

040-4 Wyo. Code R. § 4-8

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Section 4-8 - Trap and Snare Specifications

(a) All snares used for furbearing or predatory animals shall be equipped with a break-away device located at the point of the snare lock;

(b) Break-away devices shall release at two hundred ninety-five (295) pounds of pressure or less;

(c) Snare capture loop size shall not exceed twelve (12) inches in diameter measured from side to side;

(d) Snares shall be solidly anchored to ensure the break-away device properly functions to release at two hundred ninety-five (295) pounds of pressure or less, and;

  • (i) Snares shall not be anchored to any wire of a fence.
  • (ii) Snares shall not be anchored to any moveable object such as a drag.

(e) A quick-kill body-grip trap having a jaw measurement of ten (10) inches or greater when measured vertically at its widest part of the jaw shall not be set, other than on private land, unless the bottom of the quick-kill body-grip trap is at least partially submerged in water when set.

040-4 Wyo. Code R. § 4-8

Amended, Eff. 8/19/2015.

Amended, Eff. 12/9/2016.