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Apr 2nd, 2007 at 4:00pm
 
I dunno if You discussed it. Anyway, I am thinking of learning to set some kickasarse traps. You know, boobytraps like falling tree trunks, rope loops, tripwires, holes etc. I saw some neat ones in Poor Man's James Bond, survival books etc, but feel You guys can give me some neat suggestions!

I'd like to later remove them, beacuse it's danger for some animals and methanol maniacs, of course.
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Reply #1 - Apr 3rd, 2007 at 12:12am
 
Don't do it.
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Reply #2 - Apr 3rd, 2007 at 6:20am
 
I suppose it all depends where you were intending to set these up.
If it's in your own backyard - go for it :-)

If in publically accessable woodland - be careful as I would imagine just constructing such a trap in a public area would be a prosecutable offence.
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Reply #3 - Apr 3rd, 2007 at 12:40pm
 
Hmmm I don't intend making a mess out of people's lives, just learning how is it done. Perhaps this would quench my thirst for knowledge and discover that they are too much to be interesting...

But anyway I kind of rethought it and thanks for this... direct advice.
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Reply #4 - Apr 3rd, 2007 at 6:43pm
 
I suggest setting the traps up on wall street in ny at noon
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Reply #5 - Apr 3rd, 2007 at 7:21pm
 
Bait them with dollar bills?
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Reply #6 - Apr 3rd, 2007 at 8:14pm
 
Just be inventive Smiley.
It depends completely on your resources available, and what your end goal is. I've designed traps just for the fun of it which send logs swinging on vines and that sort of thing. There's nothing complicated about it; just be clever as far as inventing trigger systems (and remember that someone will have thought of it before you), and use your enviornment to your advantage. Using naturual cordage for this is the way to go Smiley
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Reply #7 - Apr 9th, 2007 at 11:49pm
 
my favorite trap is the one when you dig a hole in the groudn then cover it with sticka and leaves Grin or the bandy branch and rope one. when you step on the trip wire a branch hits you
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Reply #8 - Apr 10th, 2007 at 6:19am
 
but have you ever built one rahil ?

The bendy tree one is unlikely to work for anything much bigger than a rabbit (trees generally lose their srping if bent for any length of time) - usually you need a pretty decent counterweight.
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Reply #9 - Apr 10th, 2007 at 7:00pm
 
the hole ones simple enough, but i use the bendy b ranch on my brothers quite a bit . i dont pick big branches, just the tiny whippy ones. more to play than to hunt really, and if so, ide be lucky to catcha rabbit   Grin
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Reply #10 - Apr 25th, 2007 at 4:11pm
 
heck why be spendy bait them with dimes. nice shiny dimes lol
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Reply #11 - May 14th, 2007 at 10:45am
 
but realy, i know a few things about traps, deadfalls, snares, and the holes. deafalls are falling trunks or falling anything for that matter. im killing a few mice in my garage with deadfalls.
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Reply #12 - May 14th, 2007 at 12:48pm
 
homemade mouse traps are good fun.
I made a few soome years ago that caught them alive for release away from the house (these are field mice not house mice).

A dead fall sounds like it'd kill them pretty instantly, which works too.
The matel snap traps have atendency to injure and kill slowly - which I never approve of, in any aspect of life.

What sort of trigger mechanism do you use ?
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Reply #13 - May 14th, 2007 at 5:07pm
 
the pyute and penut butter works great for mice I use it instead of spring traps
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Reply #14 - May 15th, 2007 at 11:44am
 
[quote]pyute and penut butter [/quote]

do you mean peyote ? So they'd die happy - I can live with that :-)
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