I was searching the posts for information on snare wire knots. I found 2 references to using a larks head. Can someone explain how that would work for me?

Aardwolfe mentioned that John’s SAS Guide recommends a slipknot on a slipknot. I have the Collins Gem edition if someone can give me a page number. I didn’t see it.
”As the animal struggles to get free, it not only pulls the main loop tight, it also tightens up the lark's head knot so the loop will not come loose.”

Shaggystu “…i don't think the larks head makes any difference to how effective the snare is at holding an animal, it just makes a difference as to how effective the snare is at killing animals.”

Thanks

The easiest and clearest way might be to check out a knot book. Nearly all of them show this very simple knot.

Verbally, take a doubled line, lay a stick over it. Take the ends of the line and pole them through the loop on the other side of the stick - I think I have told you how to tie a lars head....

Thanks for the reply hikerdon

What I meant was that if you make a larks head knot you now have two lose ends of rope/wire that do not lend themselves well to another slip knot. Where does the other slip knot belong if you use two knots?

Here is a picture of a larks head I found on the Internet
http://www.everestvsu.co.uk/knots/lark3.htm


thanks again

This is something I've been wondering/working on as well. I've tried alot of various knot/loop combinations with snare wire. On using the lark's head, maybe I'm doing somthing wrong but in wire it seems the wire kinks before the lark's head bites in so i end up with a loop that still runs.

What I've found that works reasonably well and doesn't use much more of the precious wire than a regular loop, is to add a small pinch in the running loop. I try to slightly overlap the pinch so it doesn't affect(jam) the sliding of the snare. It rides freely then with more pull the wire pops into the pinch to 'lock' the snare. I've been doing my tests with Mil. tripwire (the yellow and green spooled stuff), so YMMV.

I'm pretty proud of this innovation as it seems to work pretty well. Here's a pic:



As for the Wiseman book reference, It looks like they were refering to the Honda knot in the campcraft section (pg.168). I have the original "Survive Safely Anywhere" edition, so the page number may be different. Also, if you look at the diagram of the Prusik knot (pg.171) the first diagram is a Lark's head.

Dave

PS Let's call it the Dave Slide-lock <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />