Just ordered 20 sabertooth drags 
this is turning out to be quite an expensive season 
I have been apprehensive to use these but I like the idea now. I am still a little nervous though. We all like to put them down quick but are likely sentencing them a slow death when we mess up and lose one.
Anyways - What’s the furthest you’ve seen an animal get on a drag? How many have you lost?
Sorry Ryan but I never used drags.Steve will probably chime in I think he uses them a lot.
Last I heard from Steve he was skinning the hell out of beaver
Furthest was a big dog yote went 300 yards across picked beans as soon as he it the tree line he tangled. In thickets and woods he won’t go far big timber he may go a pieces but not far.
Colt
I love them, never have gone more then 15 to 20 yards. Makes a remake great too.
ii use drags on spots where i normally catch coyotes every year. I use em mainly because I want my location to stay as natural as it can stay.
never had much luck on remakes in a catch circle.
as for how far ? the farthest ive ever had one go was maybe 50 yards.
If there’s anything at all close they usually don’t get out of sight. Cats hardly move them, usually. Coyotes you can hear the chain rattling when standing at the set, usually. I have a drag dog and last year I tried to have some go far to train her. I had one go about 75 yards across grass, she found easily.
Buy a hundred feet of chain and use eight feet per trap to start. With my dog I’m thinking five or six would be fine. I actually tried some last year with eight feet of chain and 10 ft. Of 1/8 cable in some open type strip pit weeds. Got a double on yotes and neither went over a hundred feet or so.
When you start getting old that stake driving and pulling wears you out. Nice to just pick up drags.
Thanks guys
To further what KYtrapper said, I have never used the sabertooth drags but I have some JC Conner drags that I bought off of KYtrapper a few years ago and I have never had one get out of sight of the set with them, I believe they would stop one on a manicured putting green they dig in and hang up very quickly. They are heavy which I believe is part of the reason they work so well, I am running mine with 10 feet of chain.
Those are great drags. I trap a lot of strip pit type areas and I’ve had them catch so much they ball up with ceresa. I use the plain old MB’s with a 60 D nail added to the points if I’m in strictly weeds. I have a stack of steel fence posts I’m going to start trying with the chain hard attached about a third of the way down in the weed type stuff.
Just to go along with what everyone has said Ryan buy you a 100ft of chain US made. You won’t be disappointed in those sabertooths. I was just like you before I used them but now I prefer them. I haven’t had any go farther than 20 yds cause like Steve said when you trap strip mine areas there’s lots of brush.
Do you guys dye and wax your drags? Thank you in advance
Also, is there any harm in putting a longer chain on than 10 feet? Say I wanted to put 15 or 20 feet on just to see, it seems like this would be more beneficial.
You can put 100 foot on. Just gotta remember at a certain point it gets to heavy to be efficient as a speed setting tool.
You can treat your drags exactly the way you treat your traps or just leave them alone. I treat mine every few seasons so they won’t rust away.
Colt
What’s your preferred chain
Will the twin loop chain work ok
Or do you want something heavier?
No# 2 twin loop
I use #3 straight link.
Thank you