survival snare

Easy instructions how to make a simple snare that can be used in a survival situation.

WARNING... this should only be used in a survival situation. It is illegal to trap game animals without a license.

Step 1: Materials

All you'll need is:

-a knife
-a stick (see pic.)
-some string

Comments

[Future filmaker]

I heard that rabbits are considered a pest, which means that it would be considered legal to trap without a license, is that true?

[srollason]

all depends on where you live.
in Australia you can trap them without a license, you would have to check your local laws to find out what the requirement is.

[recyclebin]

no they are protected and illeagle to kill out of season or without a hunting licence unless it is a life or death matter

[cotofana]

Uhm, not here they're not. In this state, anything that looks or acts like a big rodent can be live trapped and must thereafter either be killed or released.

[yerm]

hehe he said overy

[Josehf Murchison]

Personally I prefer brass snare wire and a fixed snare, this looks like a drag snare. The animal can run and be lost in the bush.

There are many articles that can be sighted as to survival in the wilderness, however there are two reasons hunting is in the fall. Breading is over and animals starve in the winter that is why hunters cull the heard in the fall.

The snow shoe rabbit does not fully digest it food so in the winter when food is scarce the snow shoe rabbit eats its own fecal material.

I wouldn’t want to eat the rabbits dinner.

[mista.v]

Would you put bait in this, or just wait for animals to run by?

[Frowney001]

depends on how long you want to wait

[OfficerKarl]

I think everyone who has ever posted a comment online should read this comic:

http://xkcd.com/481/

Good comic for intelligent people, btw.

[carpe_noctem]

YES! It needed to be said! Thank you! Thank the artist! Thank everyone!

[jagman111]

I have one thing to say lets take one vegan and one hunter put them in the wilderness for 2 months and find out who comes out .

[kicker109]

I vote the Vegan

[GeckoHiker]

I've done a several survival courses in my life and the instructors always admit that the use of snares and fishing line is mainly for entertainment purposes in a survival situation.  They had us skinning cattail roots and gutting dandelion greens for food, and setting snares and fishing for amusement.  One winter we made toasted pine jerky from the tender inner layer of pine bark, stole walnuts from squirrels, and dug up wild onions.  The squirrels often forget their caches so no squirrels were actually harmed during that expedition in winter wilderness survival.

The vegan will come out on top because human civilization is predominantly built on plant predation and the vegan has made a study of plant food sources that hunters will ignore.  In most hunter-gatherer societies the gatherers keep everyone afloat when the hunters frequently come back empty handed.  If you know your local vegetation you can eat well through the winter.  Even the game that you might possibly catch with snares eats vegetation to survive, and so can you.  The Roman army survived long marches by eating greens found along the way, accompanied by a bit of salt.  The salt paid to the Roman troops was their "salary".   In Icaria, residents eat wild greens and have an exceedingly long and healthy life.  Their lifestyle and diet is being studied now to discover why greens are so life sustaining.  I see bison and cattle surviving on greens and they are much bigger than I am.  Obviously, greens in the wild is the real key to survival.




 

[ortsa]

Unless you want to be eating all day like a herbivore you are gonna need some meat to stay in shape.

[Bill1965]

I have to say unless you are very familiar with local flora, eat bambi and thumper. Pretty much anything crawls, swims , runs , or flys ( good luck) is edible, eating a plant your unfamilar with is not a good Idea.

[spaghetti-o]

thank you have helped me out alot to make this in quickedy lick speed *hug*

[Sgt.Waffles]

Snares made of string or twine are generally not used. Trapped animals have a knack for chewing through the weak fibers. If you are serious about trapping, invest in some high tensile trip wire available at any army suplus store, swap meet, etc.

[rownhunt]

go to a hardware store and by yourself some brass wire and your good also

[recyclebin]

Thanks, i havent gotton my licence yet so im not trapping, but i do have military tripwire.

[ve2vfd]

I agree, metallic snare wire is more efficient, and more humane as it can't be chewed thru, and can only get tighter as the animal fights (so it will die faster, snaring animals sometimes ain't pretty). Also make sure you check your snares often as predators may "help themselves" to an easy meal if you catch anything. Also having a small calibre weapon (like a .22) when checking your snares is a good idea (to finish off an animal as quickly as possible if it ain't dead, and in case you attracted predators).

[bubba j]

ya my 10/22 ain't much use on the couger in my neiborhood that they still haven't caught for a year and he's stealing my squirrelstry a 30-06 for this proplem

[Sgt.Waffles]

A mini bat that you get at the ballpark works well too. One crack between the eyes makes them go night night.

[recyclebin]

all you need is a good 2" thick sitck

[OfficerKarl]

I would much rather make a punji stick trap because it would probably kill the animal quicker.

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[OfficerKarl]

If you actually did make a punji pit when you didn't need it anymore, you would just take it apart, besides, if you really do need to make one, there wouldn't be any people nearby...

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[OfficerKarl]

did you not see how all my arguments rely on this being a survival situation?

[huntandfish]

would 50 lb test nylon do the trick

[recyclebin]

i guess, the size of the snare wire should fit of the size of the gane

[brian250]

Allways attach a springer to a snare.that way you dont have to hope the target doesnt step out of the snare,once it steps in-whalla

[15zhangfra]

wat does " (removed by comunity request)" mean. anyways, awesome

[recyclebin]

it just means someone said something inappropriate and the comment is "flagged" and eventually removed by someone that works for instructables

[15zhangfra]

thanx

[A good name]

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[americas_HERO2393]

don't look at this stuff just to say what we do is bad thats what we do and have no control over it. so get it through your head that you won't change our minds

[A good name]

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[Aklash, The hunchback]

what happened to the "be nice" policy?

[OfficerKarl]

Nobody is doing this just for fun. If you were lost in the wilderness without food you would have to do the same thing. It's you or the rabbit...

[A good name]

Well you're right about that... But I think in that case it would be easier to just find berries... I wouldn't kill an animal anyways... Even if I did eat meat, I would be too squeamish