Doug,<br>The point of my comments is that the vast majority of us have ever set a snare. Likely as not, very few have any meaningful knowledge of where to set a snare (how to identify a small game trail).<br><br>I have two snares in my army survival vest. I doubt that I could employ them with any real expectation of catching anything. I would think that to have an expecation of using a snare successfully, you would need to use one with some frequency. <br><br>Sort of like the threads on fishing knots. If you don't fish, it is not realistic to think that you are going to go out and subsist on your catch in an emergency.<br>