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The woods are not like your local grocery store where you go to the meat department and pick out your pre-packaged meat, most people never see where there food comes from. In the woods you kill and clean your own meat, so you see where it comes from.
NEVER KILL WHAT YOU DON’T EAT.
If you practice snaring animals, you will be killing animals and many of them will be cute, snaring is intended to kill an animal so don’t try to catch a pet with a snare, in most places it is against the law.
My first kill wasn’t a pleasant experience; I did not know rabbits scream like a guinea pig as you kill them. The other thing people don’t realise is when you hunt and you shoot an animal with a bow or a gun, they don’t die instantly. I know I hunt, sometimes they run for a mile other times they fall instantly and lay there dying. A friend of mine shot a rabbit with a cross bow bolt (arrow) and it ran under a bolder to die, where he could not retrieve it. Losing your kill is wasting a life and your time. Snaring is a slow way to die, hold your breath for five to fifteen minutes and see how long one minute is. It is one thing to kill this cute Chipmunk slowly for food when you must, it is another to kill it just because you can.
No animals were harmed during the making of this article.
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Mark your snare placements or you can loose your game and snares, the forest changes quickly sometimes over night, these three photos taken over nine days shows how much and how fast the forest can change.
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I see someone else mentioned survival.com. It's an excellent site. Ron Hood has an excellent method for making the loop for a snare. The little twisty loop that you run the tail through to make the snare loop. Wind the end of wire around a small stick. 6 - 8 wraps. It should look something like a spring. Break and remove the stick and you have a nice tight coil to thread the other end of your wire through, making the snare. This coil tends to hold fairly large animals without unwinding. Remember to dress the short end so it doesn't stick your supper in the eye. You might end up with no supper :-( Ah well, back to meat bees...where's that piece of bullion cube I had left over?
I am planning to add photoes of trails in the snow.
Keep up the good work! (You've got another follower :-)
Good instructable, but I think it would be better if you described size, positioning(along the trail) and possibly best target species (what you find easiest to snare, most plentiful, tastiest, ...)
Snares are a class of their own, they are a type of a trap that uses rope, string, or wire, in a noose of some kind to kill your prey. The ankle snare is no grantee not to kill.
In a deadfall snare the weight pulls the rope, string, or wire.
In a deadfall trap the weight hits the animal, drops a box, or a net on the animal. Other than when the weight hits the animal it is made for live capture.
Size and where on burrows.
“Figure 4
Burrows have more than one entrance so cover as many entrances with a snare as you can to improve your chances.”
“Figure 5
Make your snare smaller than the burrow entrance and set it more to the top of the burrow with the other end secured to something solid. Animals look up before they come out of their burrow placing their head in just the right place to be snared.”
Size and where on game trails.
Size depends on the game using the trail, small snares for rabbits wont work on deer and visa versa.
“Figure 2
Small game runs look like a part in the grass three inches across.”
Step nine
“The last detail set as many snares along the game trails as possible, bottlenecks and narrow passages are the best places to set a snare. Each snare you set increases your chance to catch an animal in your snare.”
However, when I asked about size, I was more asking for a reference of sizes (I have heard of a hand-span wide for rabbits and about the same height from the floor), and was thinking, what's the size of snare for, say, a chipmunk?or a deer? i also have heard that rabbits sometimes rest on their trails, in the same spot, so putting snares there is useless, because they are still. http://www.survival.com/?page_id=147 this has some interesting ideas, right at the bottom of the page, the tin can bird trap
Joe
Deer can smell wire so they are very hard to snare but not impossible.
A spring snare or a dead fall snare is best for them.
It should be large enough to walk through with your arms spread.
Deer are not visually intelligent they identify by smell and sound. As long as you are not moving and they cannot smell or hear you, they equate you with a tree trunk.
I once crossed a 50-acre field and got within 10 yards of a deer. Every time the deer put its head down to graze, I took a couple steps closer until I was in range of my bow.
Chipmunks are best to get at their burrow so fallow the burrow instructions and use a light wire or string.
You can have all the signs of a rabbit run and catch every thing but a rabbit. Animals are lazy, they use game runs the same way we use roads. I set six snares along what I thought was a rabbit run and caught a ruff grouse and a skunk.
Make your snare four to six inches across and two to four inches off the ground. There is no perfect size just what works, works Eh?
Joe
Mushrooms are like guns.
All they do is sit there doing what comes naturally.
Then man comes along.
Read my instructible on picking wild mushrooms.
YOU CAN EAT ANY WILD MUSHROOM ONCE.
That does not mean you will live to eat them twice.
How about this,
If you’re allergic to mushrooms, DON’T EAT WILD MUSHROOMS.
Joe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_poisoning
Anyone can drink bleach, once!
Did you read my instructible on eating wild mushrooms?
Joe
Joe
There are so many different mushrooms one person cannot know the names of them all.
But you can learn groups where all or most are safe.
The biggest mistake people make is eating over ripe mushrooms.
Immature mushrooms are best and pure white inside and outside are even safer.
I must go, I was going to send a photo when I discovered my file was wiped.
The only thing i can say is that it would be easy'er to use a branch-springtrap (for the dummies the one you see in the movies that swing's you in the air)but otherwise i completly agree with you.It's a survival-tip.I pitty the one's that ever get stuck in the mountain's or woulds ,they probably get eaten by a bear that whe caths afterword's (whe have to triple the wait of stenght according the annimal your amming to catch) because it has just eaten someone.hahaha lol
Take care and your not weird you just know how to survive while the other one's stay inside in their "safe house" and jump when they see a spider crawling! lol
Andy
Spring traps are funny in the movies.
Years ago I worked for a tree surgeon and we were liming a tree between two houses. To make sure the falling branch did not hit the house we tied a rope to the branch and supported it until it swung in just the right way so it missed the houses. Then we let go of the rope. Have you seen in the movies where a person throws an anchor overboard and the rope wraps around their ankle and drags them in. I was ten feet up the tree when I realised that really happens.
Joe
Take care
Andy
You want to say "NEVER KILL ANYTHING UNLESS YOU PROCEED TO EAT IT* AFTERWARDS"
L
*Excepting the inedible parts.
"Try not to kill in vain", would be a less confusing statement.
It's not petty, it's about good communication.
I like "Try not to kill in vain", you put it much better as you've not tied yourself to the original format.
Spelling etc is of less interest to me than the fundamentals.
L
What's more fundamental to communication than spelling?
Josehf,
I'm sorry if you were not aware of some of the errors in this instructable, if you feel the statement is not confusing then let this conversation be proof. NEVER TAKE OFFENSE WHAT YOU DON'T READ. I'm going to now eat the dog I had to put down. Just Kidding. If you could, I would include the pictures of snares that are not easy. It just seems like you took a picture of a wire loop and some mushrooms and said "now survive". But, then again, what do I know?
Also he took the saying outside the context of the article on snaring.
And please do mention “Word confusion” this is not spelling, I do appreciate it. I write in MSword and sometimes MSword automatically puts the wrong word in what I am writing. I have turned off that option but it still does it.
Word confusion is, Which witch is which? There is a difference between spelled wrong and word confusion. Which and witch are both spelled correctly, when misused in a sentence it is word confusion not a spelling error. Word confusion is a more concise term then spelling mistake or spelled wrong. Spell checks can tell you if the word is spelled wrong, in the dialect you are writing in, they cannot tell you if you are spelling the wrong word and Msword sometimes automatically puts the wrong word in.
Dialect confusion is, “Prise Vs Prize.” Both words are spelled correctly and both words have the same meaning. Just in one place they are accustomed to spelling it Prise, and in another place they are accustomed to spelling it Prize. In Canada both are correct.
Don’t correct the spelling of my name, it is Josehf.
I like my Dog with a little curry and garlic.
Ha Ha
Who corrected your name?
I mean Msword changed it when I made a typo, then I missed it while I was proofreading. I write in MSword and sometimes MSword automatically puts the wrong word in what I am writing.
This is the program making the word confusion.
The program cannot interpret a sentence. Therefore, it corrects to what it thinks you are saying.
Remember programmers are people and they cannot think of every thing.
That was a total of three errors in editing which I have corrected.
Thanks for pointing them out I missed them.
The rest of what you think of as miss spelling is dialect.
Dialect confusion is, “Prise Vs Prize.” Both words are spelled correctly and both words have the same meaning. Just in one place, they are accustomed to spelling it Prise, and in another place, they are accustomed to spelling it Prize. In Canada, both are correct.
Remember there are over eighteen different dialects of English in use worldwide, yours is not the only one that is correct. This sight is open to the whole world is it not?
However, please do point out errors that I missed, after all, I am people to.
“What's more fundamental to communication than spelling?
Josehf,”
Or did I take this out of context?
If I do make a mistake, do point it out.
I like quotes and page numbers.
Can you imagine going through a 150,000 word novel only to find the person claming a misspelling made a dialect error.
Joe
NEVER KILL WHAT YOU DON’T EAT
How do you get nourishment if I eat it?
My statement leaves it open to nourishing others.
If I proceed to eat it afterwards how do you or someone else get nourishment?
Also preserving for later use is still ethical use.
I don't eat spiders, house-bricks, wood, people and many other things.
Instruction not to kill everything that I don't eat is generally meaningless.
Within a piece about killing animals, the point is not to be snaring things without then cooking and eating them isn't it?
Such as "Don't just snare animals for fun".
L