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Hidden Ralph
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I have No Freaking Idea how to Make One.
Any Good Sites for Making them?
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Brian
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This site used to have a lot of pictures of them that were made by forum folks, someone might be able to link you to the pages. http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/traps/figure4/figure4.html here is my suggestion, we use this site often enough 
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TrooperMax
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Hidden Ralph
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thanks for the Site, but trooper found what i needed haha
thank you
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TrooperMax
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Years ago I used that same image to learn it. I put it in my wild edibles book I made. Its very useful
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Drummer Dave
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I got to make one of these this year.
Another good way of harvesting food 
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Mystik Spiral
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Me too. Never learned how to make one, but the picture really helps.  I made a piaute deadfall, but you wont have twine everywhere.
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Brian
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Me too. Never learned how to make one, but the picture really helps. I made a piaute deadfall, but you wont have twine everywhere. |
Cordage, can make cordage easily enough, at least I can so it still works for me. The more traps and snares you have in your repertoire the greater your odds of having success in different situations. Once you master the figure 4 on the ground, try setting it up on a tree trunk. Going vertical always makes things more interesting 
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linsleyk
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thanks I wanted to learn to make one. I don't know why because I don't like to kill animals, but if I am in a situation where I might have to it would be great to have the knowledge
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Drummer Dave
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Here is an awesome squirrel trap Ray mears makes. Another one id like to try while out in the woods.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRR5MTBBQI&feature=email
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Mystik Spiral
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Great vid.
It's a goal of mine to invent a trap. It's hard to do if you think of it, but this year I hope to invent my own.
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Daffy
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here is a video of one i made a few summers ago..... my friend triggered it with a stick. this was actually on a day that i was working but the beach was closed due to water conditions....
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Mystik Spiral
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I remember that video.
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Daffy
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water bottle never saw it coming...
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linsleyk
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loved the hobo fishing going give it a try. loved your trap how harsh. I don't want to be anywhere near the traps when they go off.
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flashlightfreak9
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Ahhh...the good 'ol figure 4.
I've made a few of these.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. 
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Brian
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. |
and again and again and again...
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flashlightfreak9
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That many times, huh?
It only took me a couple tries and a small modification to get my first one.
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linsleyk
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what did you snare 
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Brian
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Well, it may only take you a few tries to get your first one, but in a survival situation you make multiple traps to increase your odds. And setting all of those up, well as you can see from watching Les, can be quite a pain 
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