Snare supports

[EDDIE B 3,169]

Wolfdog, I suppose it's human nature to stick with what you know. What seems a strange or flawed concept to you, might seem ideal to us, and vise versa.

 I do like your tealer. It would certainly work here for fox. I think you guy's tend to go more heavy duty on your gear than we do, with good reason of course. You have a lot of bigger stuff that can be snared,  than we can here. We have a lot of restrictions, and so for us, fox's are as big as it gets. Also, we do a lot of our snaring/trapping on foot, so keeping things as light as possible is a must. 

Here is a YouTube video showing a fairly common setup for snaring fox's over this side of the waters. As I said, there are both restrictions and guide lines which we need to adhere to, to keep things legal. 

By the way, keep the posts coming. Very interesting to see how you folks do things over there.

 

[Wolfdog91 7,687]

2 hours ago, EDDIE B said:

Wolfdog, I suppose it's human nature to stick with what you know. What seems a strange or flawed concept to you, might seem ideal to us, and vise versa.

 I do like your tealer. It would certainly work here for fox. I think you guy's tend to go more heavy duty on your gear than we do, with good reason of course. You have a lot of bigger stuff that can be snared,  than we can here. We have a lot of restrictions, and so for us, fox's are as big as it gets. Also, we do a lot of our snaring/trapping on foot, so keeping things as light as possible is a must. 

Here is a YouTube video showing a fairly common setup for snaring fox's over this side of the waters. As I said, there are both restrictions and guide lines which we need to adhere to, to keep things legal. 

By the way, keep the posts coming. Very interesting to see how you folks do things over there.

 

Yeah dosent help I naturally try to deconstruct stuff and see how I could work better lol, force of habit. But yeah alot of y'all do seem rudimentary ( please don't take offense by the way) to alot of us in the US lol. Like most snare guys ive talked to and shown how you guys snare automatically ask, " why are their snare supports attached to the snare ?"  Not saying it's wrong just didn't seem as effective.   But you guys snare in basically the same environment through the UK so I guess not much need for too much innovation. Here most snare guys have a few differnt easy to snare because legit 5miles down the road will require a different need than where you just where.

One guy I know walks this whole line so he has a back pack with a couple dozen snares ,a pair of pruner sand ,cable cutters and a roll of support wire. His are close to 10-15 long with a trap swivel next to the loop. And a crimped loop on the other end. He find the trail uses the loop to anchor the snare to a tree cuts a stick wraps his wire around the top end sticks it in the ground next to the trail stick the snare on the wire adjusts it adds a little blocking and he's down the trail in like 2 minutes. But his are lethal. He makes a catch opens a swivel j hook puts a new snare on and re sets.

Know another guy who uses a short snare on like three swivels and his are on 20ftslide cable. He's live market and can't afford dead animals so he uses a support but smaller like I do on crawl unders. Coyote gets caught and fights till he walks down the slide wire to somwhere he can't choke out. Again he's selling these c oyotes live for close to $100 So a dead yote and crawl indeed are the easiest way for him to snare.

I know one guy who foot snares fox and coyote. Dosent use a thrower or anything but he can put a small snare down on a trail and catch a fox or coyote by the foot and you wildn even know they where where in a see the way he makes em

The list goes on and on but the point I'm getting at is we generally don't do alot of this stuff to be complicated it's just everyone develops a system that works for them due to different laws,reasons non targets and so on.

Also would like to state theirs alot of place over here who have snaring laws almost identical to yours, we call it Cable Restraint though. Also find it cool the earth anchors he's using,  those are what we call Iowa Stakes. Trappers in Iowa stated making thise some 40 odd years ago  out of scrap pipe and steal nuts. Most people who use them now use them as disposables since their so cheap.

Here a video about a snaring system that was real common 20 odd years ago but is pretty out dated by many standards today