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  1. snareman
    what we need is a lightweight and strong trap that will kill quickly, something like a spring trap with a slightly curved jaw, for setting in holes , as the spring traps that we have in use at the moment certainly don,t kill quickly , and that is total fact from years and years of using them , moley , peg and gun , and teejay will also verify this, along with many others i,m sure , another thing is why are we ripped of for traps in this country 8 or 9 quid for a shitty trap that can,t do the job properly , when traps in america are half the price . and quality made , instead of worrying about
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    your right tomo, as long as its under cover, but it really doesn,t matter how much care you take there is always some prowling little bast#rd that will stick a hand in one when trying to steal them, then there will be the usual hullaballoo about nothing ,instead of common sense being used , where the little c#nt should have been given a good slap in the first place , but the trapper always gets the blame ,
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    is that the safety device that alan salmon devised.
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    you have started something now lad, gary will be wanting you to catch him a lot at that size for his dinner.
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    only a rank amateur would make and use such a monstrosity, and you never ever set snares amongst cattle , not even that crap as it would still not safeguard a cow being caught by the tongue , and you don,t set snares on hoops like that anyway , as there is a problem with it , in the uk you do not need snares tagged anywhere , and the thin wire snare you speak off has killed millions of rabbits and hares over the last century , the hoop snare with the plain and simple fenceline wire , with a 6 strand wire has accounted for hundreds of thousands of rabbits and hares over the last 70 years ,what
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    in my opinion, whats needed is a new organisation developed and run by real trappers and snarers who know the game , not the desk jockeys , and theory boys , something like the, UK TRAPPERS ASSOCIATION, all the other organisations started somewhere , now they have the financial backing and the voice , with a good we regular magazine, called the TRAPPER, with real experiences from the guys in the field, not the usual run of the mill bulsh#tters , thats written nothing but pure crap , about snaring and trapping for years , at least what we write will be the truth , from years of practical exper
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    your right john you don,t want any type of smell on snare or run, peg out every run with a breakaway snare, when the weather is right, and if you are any good at it you will have the majority of rabbits snared in 3 mornings and any cats caught will release themselves , cage traps to costly, to bulky, and expensive to lose, i would have these rabbits cleaned up in jig time, stop worrying about the cats and get it done,
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    i am an SGA member, and really could not believe what i was reading in the scottish gamekeeper magazine, when it arrived last saturday morning, about setting fox snares at 5 inches high, and the usual 100 year old drivel of setting rabbit snares with 4 inch nooses set 3 fingers high, i phoned BASC, and they said it was best practice , thought up by the usual organisations, and to phone BASC scotland , and spoke to the man the office , i explained the situation, and asked what clowns came up with all this nonsense, after an hour,s conversation, isent breakaway fox snares and rabbit snare sam
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    Good post Rolfe, the third pic isn't so obvious, but i'll take your word for it. The use of fence snares looks doomed in Scotland and no doubt England eventually. All by people who don't know what they're talking about, on behalf of rabid city dwellers who move into the country and think it's a Walt Disney film. Trouble is, they have the resources and ability to lobby above their weight. the picture is clear enough ian, look and you will see the slight discolouration, on the wire and even on the wire turns, sometimes hairs can,t be seen at all .
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    the rats don,t chew through the single and double strand stainless steel wire regardless of where you catch them , and that even goes for ground snaring like i have shown up on the rat snaring site, the single steel strand is only as thick as a single strand of brass rabbit wire , and if you get a drum of this you will never ever need to buy a rat snare ever again in your life , they are made for apenny. they hold sqirrels and rabbits also , ask woodga and duckwing.
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    the wire hoop snare has been around for 70 years, straightforward and simple , a length of wire bent into a U shape , pushed into the ground over a rabbit run, a snare systems beauty is its simplicity, thats how its so effective in the first place, i have personally never used electrical tape there is no need to although some lads like it , its really is a simple job to keep the snare sitting steady on a hoop, without any added garbage, such as wire turns, because the minute a rabbit or hare is caught, the wrap themselves around the two wire legs which really are a double kill pole, therefore
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    speaking to a friend of mine from england a guy whom i taught to snare rabbits and foxes , he was commenting on rats in certain premises that just would not go near the traps he had set , so i said to him a few weeks ago , why don,t you snare them , i sent him down some snares, and we discussed various types of wire that i have used over the years, two strands of brass, single and double strands of steel , last season i was using a single strand of ruby wire and could take , up to ten rats with one single strand wire wire , these snares were all used in conjunction with hazel benders , my frie
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    If you use the pro ones on the wire tealer set at 61/2" and follow the advice given by the experts on this site, you'll catch more, and become so confident, that you'll feel miffed if you get a knocked snare. On the metal tealer, the snare can spin like a swivel so they last longer too. Well worth the little bit extra. You won't go back to shop bought. shop bought snares are usually sold under the guise of professional rabbit snares , they are sold by salesmen who talk the talk, but can,t walk the walk not real trappers, like the few real snarers on this site thats snared over a thousand
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    speaking to a friend of mine from england a guy whom i taught to snare rabbits and foxes , he was commenting on rats in certain premises that just would not go near the traps he had set , so i said to him a few weeks ago , why don,t you snare them , i sent him down some snares, and we discussed various types of wire that i have used over the years, two strands of brass, single and double strands of steel , last season i was using a single strand of ruby wire and could take , up to ten rats with one single strand wire wire , these snares were all used in conjunction with hazel benders , my frie
  15. snareman
    thats not really agood idea,
  16. snareman
    if it was pegged snares they were set to low, now kill the fox , and the rabbits wil be yours
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    Anyone else had this happen or suspected it?? easy sorted, flask of tea, and a piece, old fashioned waiting game, balaclava, no talking, step out smart left hook, then straight right, and lefthook to the floatig ribs, lo and behold a nice free metal detector , and away home , its worked for me.
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    As an added reply, I had some copper, which was just by a couple of thou, thinner than snareman recommended for the breakaway rabbit snare, but it was annealed soft copper, and some rabbits were escaping, in fact some escaped as a last ditch effort as you approached, so I stopped using that, but will keep looking for stronger stuff, as one cat, is one cat too many. I've a limited amount of blood in me at any one time. I too am looking into the copper wire thing, I was wondering about the single strand copper you get in cooker wire, you know the heavy duty stuff? From the top of my hea
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    tomo, the majority of the fieldsports lads know that i am the real inventor of the quick set longnet system , with pockets all tied in place, nobody ever used one until i showed the system , in the early 90,s , although it was devised 38 years ago when i was 24 years old , but there are three people that can,t be lied to one is when they look into the mirror , me who invented it, and GOD, thats good enough for me. anyway it was nice to meet you, and matt the rat, axeholme ferreter, john b, bob nets, holdaway, and i even offered you lads free money and none of you took it , so don,t say that w
  20. snareman
    reset them and go and hide, then. sort them out . no more problems. job done. it worked for me a few times in the past.
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    another good time to kill rabbits this way is when its hard frost, the rabbits will lie out in thick tussocky type grass, and you can see the nice pop holes due to constant use , they can also be found when a few strips of straw are left lying in the stubble fields , out from a hedge or wood edge, or along grassy dry stone walls , etc. a little sheet net is very handy for these locations, fling it over the front of the holes and kick the grass at the back and they are out and caught up in the net in seconds. phil lloyd and i were netting them like this 16 yrs. ago . its great fun, and a few ni
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    there is no books on the market, in the last hundred years that will tell you how to snare rabbits correctly , for the simple fact is every author who has wrote about it couldn,t set snares properly , right up until modern day books every author has practically copied each other , with the same shit set witha 4 inch loop at 3 to 4 fingers high , all the field sports writers are the same , every article you read is the same crap , small noose and set low mentality. if you read what i have put up at the top of the first page , on professional rabbit snaring , plus if you purchase woodga,s dvd. t
  23. snareman
    p and g you forgot about that morning you had 157 , out of 225 snares , the morning that the sheep had got into the field. your mind must be going young man.
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    2000 pegged wires set and only 500 rabbits snared , a couple of amateurs more like it , i,ve had 192 out of two hundred, in a morning , and 97 three times out of one hundred , old chisholm, one of my mentors snared 2500 rabbits in a week working 1000 wires, if woodga, peg and gun and myself , set out two thousand pegged snares , on ground that was infested with rabbits , we would be needing a bus to take them away,and thats a true fact.
  25. snareman
    i think you are right on there my man , the more it seems that you try and help them , the more they seem to either copy your ideas and try to make a fast buck out of them , there are more coming onto this site with profit in mind , wanting brass wire, eyelets, how to make this and that just to sell . look how the quick set long net was being sold after i showed it, and i,m the originator of the idea. my breakaway fox snare eyes, breakaway rabbit snares , earth anchors . yep trappa, i,m showing no bast#rd nothing else , except my personal friends on the site . and there are certain good idea
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