This is a first. The Trap lost the battle to what I can only guess was a Monster Coon. The opposite end of the trap door wire is bent in from the coon pulling on it. The trap door is loose, slightly bent, just overall stressed.

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Like usual with a coon they pull anything they can grip thru the wire. Here the trap was under my wife's bird feeders, a thick mat of Black Oil Sunflower shells has been piled up on the aluminum where the trap was sitting. I didn't put the concrete blocks on top for some reason so the coon was able to pull itself over to the edge where it could start digging.

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It must have gotten a front leg around enough to pull on the door stop allowing room to escape. I bet that coon never goes in one of these traps again. .22Short time.

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I got to clean the trap out now, tighten all the bend parts, and get it overall ready to go back on the hunt tonight. This trap is 20 years old. Service has been on and off but this was the first Escape ever here.