Snare pegs

[gnipper 6,879]

I'm using wire fig 4 tealers at the mo and wooden pegs to hold em but has anyone ever tried a galvanised peg of some sort? I was thinking if it was 9 or 10 inch long with a loop twisted into the top for the twine it should hold with the rabbits pulling it sideways and not upwards???

Might not push into hard ground too well though nut then maybe a converted decent quality tent peg might work?

Cheers in advance, Gnipper

[The one 8,592]

Never gave wire pegs a thought mate used to borrow hardwood wedges from work and slice them up and get 5 pegs

[DUCKWING 302]

WELL GNIPPER ,

 

OLD SNAREMANS ALREADY THOUGHT ABOUT THAT ONE AND HAS DEVISED A A FEW DIFFERING METHODS OF CREATEING A WIRE PEG ........... THOUGH TO BE HONEST A HARDWOOD PEGS SO EASY TO COME BY FROM CUTTING A FEW BRANCHES ITS HARD TO BETTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALL THE BEST

 

DUCKWING

[gnipper 6,879]

Cheers Duckwing. I'm gonna give them a try tomorrow i think, they might not go in on the ground i'm doing at the moment though thats why I thought about tent pegs as they might take a bit more tapping.

Cheers, Gnipper

[Netter 0]

Most of the land I snare is chalk if its been ploughed its not too bad, but I have a few chalk dales that have never been ploughed and the chalk is hard and compacted, and this knocks the shit out of wooden pegs, so a have a few snares rigged up with metal pegs the same spec as the wooden ones, you cant even get a wire peg in like Duckwing shows, and hoop snaring is out of the question.

[ianrob 2]

I'm using wire fig 4 tealers at the mo and wooden pegs to hold em but has anyone ever tried a galvanised peg of some sort? I was thinking if it was 9 or 10 inch long with a loop twisted into the top for the twine it should hold with the rabbits pulling it sideways and not upwards???

Might not push into hard ground too well though nut then maybe a converted decent quality tent peg might work?

Cheers in advance, Gnipper

Hi mate, it's a good point you make about the pull being sideways. They don't get a lot of leverage on the pegs. I made some on the lines of snareman's pegs in the picture with sea fishing swivels attached, but mine were only 3mm coathanger wire 7" long. I set 20 of them on average grassland, ie dark stoney loam grassland. I had 12 rabbits though three were nicked by foxes. the pins held and the six strand snares broke. Also , I once was with a keeper snaring a peat moss for foxes. We were using 18" ish ash pegs with a 6" snare wire loop on the top, and you could push them out of site by hand it was so soft. I expressed my doubts that they would hold a rabbit never mind a fox. The keeper reassured me and a few days later invited me to pull one out. You could pull it up a couple of inches then the vacuum beat you and took it back. Tethering and anchoring traps and snare is a subject on it's own, and mister Waters has covered it very well in the pinned sections.

Edited July 6, 2008 by ianrob

[snareman 3]

Most of the land I snare is chalk if its been ploughed its not too bad, but I have a few chalk dales that have never been ploughed and the chalk is hard and compacted, and this knocks the shit out of wooden pegs, so a have a few snares rigged up with metal pegs the same spec as the wooden ones, you cant even get a wire peg in like Duckwing shows, and hoop snaring is out of the question.

i snared a place with extremely hard ground , similar to the chalkland you describe, i used 6 inch nails instead of pegs , it worked for me .