nothing to it at den mouths, for prairie dogs, chucks, etc. Smooth wire won't prevent the critter tossing it off. you need a "one way" device of some sort. You can arrange one with a small pc of angle iron, drilled with a couple of holes, or for small critters, Benson claims that the standed electrical wire has the same effect.

Buckshot's Camp has info. He's so fos about the guns needed for shtf that I could never get the guy to talk sensibly about much of anything, tho.

you need an area that "funnels" critters into your trap, or bait. Such funnels can be made,but it's a lot of work. Woven wire fence can be overlapped, used to make box traps, for fish, turtles, birds, critters. It protects the catch from predators, and it can, in some cases, catch more than one bird or fish. You want to read Ragnar Benson's Survival Poaching book.

Thanks, I'll have to check that book out.

Though I'm pretty confident in this area, I can always use as much information on the subject as possible. There's always a trick or tip to be learned.

I've read a lot of Ragnar's books, they are both informative and entertaining, but probably just a bit hard-core, right wing for most of the folks here (being a reformed doomsdayer, I laughed my donkey off at a lot of his lines that some folks would find a bit too close to the gallows for gallows humor).

Troy

While most of what "Benson" writes is accurate, to a point, but the man is seriously paranoid. Even worse than me. Medication needed paranoid. Even worse, several of his books are radically out of date, yet still being published.

As for using insulated electrical wire, have you tried it? And in what gauge? Solid strand or twisted? Lots of variables, and most of them make the various electrical and electronics wires, if insulated, less than optimal.

Give me bare, 24ga brass every day.

Aaaaah. OK. It's probably not the book for me then unless the information is so far beyond good that I should attempt to wade through it.

Thanks for the info!

I am not goot at traping but i use a Bee Man's wire.
It can cut out fingers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not so sure that he's so much paranoid as shrude... and rich. He's playing to the audience, just like any other successful performer. There's a reason that his books are still in print, they're still selling <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />.

Kind of makes you wonder just how many would-be "Omega Men" there are out there, doesn't it??<img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />??

Troy

i know about the funnel stuff, but making one that doesn't look suspicious to the game your trying to catch or leaving to much trace, both fysical aswell as smell is a kinda hard...

i have read lots about snaring, but a survival instructor also have showed me how much harder it is in reality...