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Thanks Rick for the new board!
I think it would be fun to snare hares. Info suggestions?
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How about a wolf? Just bought a dozen wolf snares and haven't ever used one before.
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Snares are they way I did 90% of my wolf trapping in SE AK. I would find a runway, and then drop a tree (small spruce, fir etc) and then I would trim away an opening or two and put the snare there.
Basically I was creating a bottleneck in an area that they traveled. It worked, but I had to play around with the the size of the opening on the snare till I got it just right.
I have also used the same snares on beaver before.
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Bender,
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Mike,
It's a blast, and a great way to learn the basics of trapping.
I initially just used picture hanging wire. I found that it breaks too easily, and you're better off to just spend the cash and buy/make real snares( snare wire, locks, etc) the smallest size you can find. Find a spot on a hare trail where they go under something, and put the snare there, held in place with thread, or light wire, and secure it to something solid. It helps to conceal the set under some brush to discourage raptors from beating you to the bunny!
Give it a try!
Jeff
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Thanks Jeff. I'm hoping this winter. Seems the population is on the upswing locally.
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snares...neat concept. Would work well for coyotes here in the winter. Can a 'stop' be added to keep um livin'? I'd like to talk w/a snared yote... have a chew of baccy w/him... then blast him.
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The best trapper I've ever known was an old guy I met while serving exchange duty in the Canadian Armed Forces in the '60's in New Brunswick, Canada. All he used were snares he made using light steel cable. Thinking back to all the lugging around #3's and #4's I did in high school, I figured this guy was a genius--he could carry 40 traps looped to his belt! He always got more than his share of coyotes, bobcats, ferel dogs and fox. He liked to find places where a run went under a fence, but he used holes, hollow logs and trees, culverts and anywhere else a trail narrowed. He told me once he caught a cat by hanging a shiny tin can lid 2 feet off the ground in the center of a snare loop tied to a branch. Steve
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Mike, Here's a good source for snare's, and there are also a few pointers mixed in with the catalog they put out. www.snareshop.comAlso, the AK trappers have a few pub's worth reading. www.alaskatrappers.orgJeff
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jed; I tried stops on 3/32 snares back when on coyotes. The problems I ran into were several. The big dogs would chew them into if they were alive for long. The pelts were really pulled where the snare set and downgraded the value considerably. If they weren't flopping around nobody saw em/stole em. A bread tie on the loop just enough that he can feel it and 3 foot of slack tied low. When they hit the end hard in about a minute it is all over. No fuss no muss. Big problems with small deer and hogs here. They will kill a small deer just as fast as a yote. I do miss trapping. okieedge
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How about a wolf? Just bought a dozen wolf snares and haven't ever used one before. Where'd you get your wolf snares at? You get them locally? I take it you already have your trapline out? I do, but I haven't got anything yet.
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Thanks for the links, Jeff.
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I think trapping season in Paradise opens Dec. 1st. I saw some snares for sale down at the local mechantile. Anybody of have any digital pictures of how they are set up?
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I just make my own snares, I braid the cable instead of using crimps. Just set them about like this one.
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Set them up about like this one.
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Can't say as I ever snared a woof or a 'yote. But, I have snared a fair share of rabbits, esp. when I was a kid.
I used the slick, poly line mason's normally use for level lines. It's STRONG, slick (which helps it slip fast), and if it's green, it's danged near invisible. It also doesn't rot, which is important (or was) when snares were set in the winter and rain/snow set in.
I used apples, cut into slices, for bait, as they have a very strong smell and rabbit love 'm. Possums, too, and a good number of those greasy bastids got snatched, too.
Set up right, the snare, with the apple slice on the trigger stick, would snap their necks every time. Set wrong, and they still died, just not as fast...
Hmmm... might need to set one or two again, just for old times sake... And, a fried rabbit dinner (GOOOOD eatin'!).
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Bender,
I've snared a hare or two. I made the snares from 1/16" wire rope and made my own stops from sheetmetal, though commercial stops would be the way to go.
Just wander through hare country, and wherever there is a low branch and hare tracks and turds running under them, hang the snare. I attached my snares with cable ties, but bailing wire or similar would work as well.
Works pretty slick, and I'm trying to find the closest spot to home that is open to trapping so I can get my kids to run a little line for hares.
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Try the Knik flats. It should produce a few for you. Set your snares under some overhanging brush, as there are a bunch of raptors out there, and they'll rob you blind!
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Thanks Paul. That's what my plan has been--for Bill and I to get some time in the wabbit woods. I have some spots in mind and I've gotten some leads on locations to try, but the dang cold has taken a bit of the shine off the idea. Longer days and milder temps coming just in time to stimulate me again!
That and planning a goat hunt, and spring bear...
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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