Yes expectations or a somewhat quantifiable metric is never used with these discussions. Just opinion and subjective analysis of the personal results. A favourable outcome could be interpreted as anything. In fairness there is little we can measure objectively with this, however there may be some. How about spring compression on the caught animal? This is measurable? Did the lock slip causing the spring to be fully open which would give predictably varied results. Or is there a lot of compression which after all is the whole purpose of the spring and the system. You can have coyotes very dead with little to no compression left but what are your expectations for speed of death? Site damage? Spring compression is measurable and objective and directly correlated to better killing no? Just some thoughts to go along with Matry’s on defining expectations and potentially using the same baselines when truly trying to find best practices. Without it these discussions of perceived opinion may perhaps be useless or non beneficial.
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