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henryblowery Guest	homemade traps Oct 28^th, 2004 at 11:01am i was wandering if any of ya'll new how to make any homemade traps like snares and box traps or something like that
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Re: homemade traps
Reply #1 - Oct 28^th, 2004 at 12:56pm

You know, I usually look to my copy of Ellsworth Jaeger's Wildwood Wisdom for this one, but I can't seem to find it. Looking to Outdoor Survival Skills, I see the two traps I know the best: the figure four deadfall and the spring pole snare.

The figure four part of the deadfall is made up of three sticks which are whittled so the horizontal part of the "4" holds a bit of food at its end, and so that if an animal disturbs this, it triggers the diagonal part of the "4" to release a heavy object (deadfall), whether a log or rock, crushing the animal.
http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/prepared/graphs/4fall.gif

The snare is a loop of string at the end of a supple sapling, and is held in place with any of a number of types of triggers, which release the sapling when an animal passes through the loop, tightening the snare around the animal's neck.
http://imnh.isu.edu/Public/JustForKids/CordageDiscoveryBox/Images/Uses/Snare6Web...

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Douglas Senior Member Offline Just give me a good stone and plenty of room! Posts: 260 Kalifornia Gender:	Re: homemade traps Reply #2 - Oct 28^th, 2004 at 1:02pm Here's some other good ones: http://www.i4at.org/surv/traps.htm Keep in mind that using these is usually illegal!
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Re: homemade traps
Reply #3 - Oct 30^th, 2004 at 4:35am

I've used deadfall with the 4 shape sticks and it works ok (i used it to trap little birds using a box instead the deadfall) easy to build but a little tricky to set .
also built several spring snares , but i wasn't unable to catch anything, (may be i set them in the wrong places) anyway spriing snares looks great and trigger is very sensitive, and easy to build and set

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Gun Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Slinging Viking Posts: 1089 The Ozarks of Ark & Mo Gender:	Re: homemade traps Reply #4 - Oct 30^th, 2004 at 11:49am Are you wanting primitive or just homemade. If you want just homemade you can build a far better trap will braided steel wire. Modern trappers uses them. Here is a good website on trapping that will help you build you own traps. www.buckshotscamp.com www.sullivansline.com
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Matt_C Funditor Offline Cruachan!!! Posts: 736 Cheshire, England Gender:	Re: homemade traps Reply #5 - Oct 30^th, 2004 at 4:34pm I have a handmade/homemade beartrap and a moletrap in this room with me, both are probably over 100 years old. They are made from what looks like folded mildsteel with various little tweaks, but I have no idea, I'll have to take a closer look at them.
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lobohunter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline where be a rock and a string there be a sling Posts: 1945 Cottage Grove or Gender:	Re: homemade traps Reply #6 - Oct 31^st, 2004 at 1:35pm if your wanting home made nothing better than the self locking snare just a L bracket and and cable or wire I prefer bike cable
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henryblowery Guest	Re: homemade traps Reply #7 - Oct 31^st, 2004 at 1:44pm to anser guns question pimitive is fine but manely just homemade
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Reply #8 - Oct 31^st, 2004 at 2:21pm

Heck, I know loads of primitive traps. I did a lot of research on them over the summer. Not a lot I can say, as traps are best shown as diagrams, but...
The Ojibwe bird trap looks like a winner, easy to make, workable, &c. Tosspole snare is good too, and I have trapped a rabbit with one - better than a spring snare. Another great one is the squirrel stick. Just a load of snares placed on a long stick that is placed diagonally on a tree (preferably one with edible nuts, so squirrels will climb it). Squirrels look for the easiest way up a tree, and a diagonal path is great for them. Look up these traps. Or indeed, any traps. Do a google search, or something.

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henryblowery Guest	Re: homemade traps Reply #9 - Nov 1^st, 2004 at 2:02pm english have you used the squirrel pole and it worked or have you just seen it an it looked like it wood wook
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english Ex Member	Re: homemade traps Reply #10 - Nov 1^st, 2004 at 2:29pm I just saw it and I think it would work well. The other two I know work.
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henryblowery Guest	Re: homemade traps Reply #11 - Nov 1^st, 2004 at 7:33pm english can you post a link or somthing about the traps i'v never made a trap like that that worked
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