snare making!

[Guest WILF]

I use a cordless drill.........

[snareman 3]

ive just started making snares,i successfully made 20 this afternoon and have sited them on some hedrow runs,i only put 6 out for a first attempt. anyhow a while back i aquired a fab bit of kit for twistingthe wires together,i had seen one on a snare making dvd,originally it was a hand crank bench grinder,my ol man recons circa 1900,with a bit of a tinker i attatched a cup hook on the shaft ,it has a ratio of 11 : 1 and i turn it 4 times per snare.

anyone else use one of these?

 

these small winders have been around for a lot of years , i gave one to woodga and peg and gun, infact you will see woodga making snares with it on his dvd. these are better than a cordless drill as there is no waste .also you can control the firmness of the wire better.

[snareman 3]

put a pic up , bob nets show how you put the hook on

 

 

Here you go mate some pics, you take the spool off and bolt in a block of wood with a hook on, this reel is 1 turn of the handle equals 6 rotations of the spool, i find 10 turns of the handle makes me a decent wire.

 

 

 

 

 

thats a quality reel lad, ive got the old metal mitchel 300 that i brought back from canada in 1968, and its still as good as the day i bought it.

[whin 463]

used to have a mitchell reel in the late seventies they were good reels for theere time caught thousands of fish with them along eastlothains coastline , good reels