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#186338 - 10/23/09 09:44 PM Concise snaring article
dweste Offline
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#186425 - 10/25/09 12:27 AM Re: Concise snaring article [Re: dweste]
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Thanks! It's being printed out as I type.

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#186428 - 10/25/09 01:29 AM Re: Concise snaring article [Re: Blast]
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Useful information, certainly. But only in desperate circumstances. If you have a genuine need, okay, but have no doubt that there is a degree of cruelty involved.

I'm pretty sure that this is highly illegal (and more broadly, grossly unethical) in a great many jurisdictions. I think it extremely unlikely that responsible trappers would use this sort of technique, at least for commercial harvest.

/okay, end rant

I would like more information about this quote from the article:

"Use the lightest snare lock possible, such as the Gregerson breakaway lock, to capture the desired animal. If deer, elk, and antelope are captured by a leg, they usually can break a light lock but may be held by heavy home-made washer locks."

Snare locks??? Wassup with that? Enlighten me, will ya?


Edited by dougwalkabout (10/25/09 01:31 AM)

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#186432 - 10/25/09 02:11 AM Re: Concise snaring article [Re: dougwalkabout]
scafool Offline
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Snare locks are usually made out of small strips of flat steel with two holes drilled in them. You bend them into an L shape with one end of the snare attached at one hole and the snare wire running through the other hole to make your noose. They let your snare slide closed but if the noose tries to open they jam on the cable.

Then come a bunch of other tricks, like stops to keep the noose from tightening to much, this means you don't catch or kill other animals than you want to, or breakaway snare locks and links to let accidental catches of larger animals get free.

You are unlikely to see anybody use any of these things on a survival snare.
The closest thing would likely be a sort of lock device made by doubling the small loop in the end of your snare wire, the one that makes the sliding eye for the noose wire to go through.
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#186454 - 10/25/09 09:58 AM Re: Concise snaring article [Re: dougwalkabout]
EMPnotImplyNuclear Offline
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Originally Posted By: dougwalkabout
Useful information, certainly. But only in desperate circumstances. If you have a genuine need, okay, but have no doubt that there is a degree of cruelty involved.

I'm pretty sure that this is highly illegal (and more broadly, grossly unethical) in a great many jurisdictions. I think it extremely unlikely that responsible trappers would use this sort of technique, at least for commercial harvest.

/okay, end rant

How long have you been trapping?

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#186463 - 10/25/09 04:25 PM Re: Concise snaring article [Re: EMPnotImplyNuclear]
dougwalkabout Offline
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It appears I spoke too soon. blush

My understanding was that snares had been banned under the Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards (AIHTS). That is not correct. Design-approved snares are permitted.

(The intent of AIHTS is to protect the commercial fur market, which is economically important for many Canadians, especially First Nations people in the North.)

So the second half of my "rant" is out of line.

BTW, I haven't done any trapping in a commercial sense. I have an uncle who has been doing it for 30 years. As long as it's done responsibly, I don't have a problem with it. Though I have seen botched jobs by amateurs/boneheads, and it makes my blood boil.

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#186553 - 10/26/09 06:03 PM Re: Concise snaring article [Re: dougwalkabout]
T_Co Offline
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Registered: 10/01/09
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Loc: Nebraska
Anyone ever try the Speed Hook Snare ?

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#186574 - 10/26/09 11:23 PM Re: Concise snaring article [Re: T_Co]
scafool Offline
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Modern snares pdf 2009
http://fishwildlife.org/pdfs/Modern_Snares_final.pdf
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