I promised in my last post that I would test the strength of the strands of extension cord wire. I just finished the tests. My testing was crude, but probably close enough.

The wire was about 1/16 in diameter, and was quite flexible. It was made of about a dozen smaller strands, each one being slightly thicker than a human hair. I suspended the wire from a hook and unwravelled it so that I could test individual strands. I found that an individual strand breaks at a shade under 5 pounds.

Depending on type of snare used, the number of strands used in the wire, the animal being snared, and how much the critter thrashed around when snared, this might make a good snare wire.

Personally, I wouldn't mind using it for birds and small mammals, but I think that if I was wanting to snare something weighing 30 pounds or more, I'd try to use something stronger.