Rabbit snare.

This is a rabbit snare that I have used over the last 14 years with great success. If you have access to some wire or pack snare wire it's easy to make.

Materials: 1) Wire
2) Wire cutters/multi-tool/knife (not necessary but makes it easy'r)
3) tree to attach snare too, or a limb of a tree that you can anchor into the ground.
4) Small limbs of a tree that the rabbits eat (burch limbs is what I've used)
5) A rabbit run (footprints left by rabbits using an area heavily)

First you take the snare wire and make a small loup at one end by bending it back on itself about an inch or two and twisting it with your multi-tool.

Second put the free end threw the loup you just made.

Third attach the free end to the anchored stick or tree (wrap it around it then twist it back on itself, similar to step 1) and hang the snare about 1 inch off the ground.

When the rabbit runs threw the loup it goes over its head but not it's shoulders (make sure you don't make the loup too big so the rabbit get's threw). when it gets caught the snare will tighten and the rabbit will die. Here is my multi-tool acting as the rabbit tripping the snare.

Almost forgot, you put the birch limbs all around the snare but not blocking it, think of it as a way to funnle rabbits into the snare. It not only attracts rabbits to the snare but also ensures that when they run threw they don't go off to the side of the snare. Good luck, and if not in a survival situation check for leagal snaring seasons.

LOL i love the last picture

I also use that snare because i find it is the most effective.

However i use a rubber coated copper wire.

But its all good

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rubber coated is just as good, especially with thin coated wire. I've always just used the plane steel "rabbit snare wire" (shown above) from walmart, about a doller or two per spool.

If you were to attach this type of snare to a long stick you could get some spruce partrige (they are ususally much less wild than their ruffed grouse cousins). simply put the snare over the birds head and "tap" it's back with the end of the stick. The bird SHOULD stick it's head up to look around. Then just yank the stick and it will more then likely rip the head off the bird, if not it will break it's neck.

Dad said he used to do this as a kid during hunting season.

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Thats pretty wild, havnt heard of that method yet, but who wants to eat birds???

Otherwise whats the point?

Shocked

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unless its grouse

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	TrooperMax wrote:
	Thats pretty wild, havnt heard of that method yet, but who wants to eat birds???

I don't know, some good Turkey every now and then hit's the spot!!! Wink

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	TrooperMax wrote:
	Thats pretty wild, havnt heard of that method yet, but who wants to eat birds??? Otherwise whats the point?

	TrooperMax wrote:
	unless its grouse

A Spruce partrige is also called a spruce grouse. That is why I suggested it. A ruffed grouse tends to be more wild, and therefore wont let you get as close to it in most cases, than the spruce. I have personaly snuck up on one before, got close enough that I coulda kick'd it before it noticed me. I have never got that close to a ruffed grouse. The method is wild, but it does work if you get close enough to use it.

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Cool stuff Daffy Very Happy

An easy way to dress out a bird is to cut off it's head, step on the wings and pull on the feet.
The guts and feet will pull away along with the skin a feathers.
The wings will probable brake.
And you will be left with the brest meet Very Happy

eric

The way I have field dressed every bird I have ever killed was to just grab the feet and a handfull of feathers from the bottom of the bird's chest and pull them off. Then you just stick your finger behind the top of the breast meat and pull and it will come off. With this method you may have to cut or break the wings however.

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Cool! I haven't heard of that before Very Happy

eric

yea man, it's super quick and has been the method i've used my entire life. kinda freaky when you just kill the bird because the chest muscles are still pulsating after you remove the breast from the animal.

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eric

Wild wacky stuff, but hey thats life and I'm glad told me this becuase I honestly have never done this before. If I ever have to I shall.

- Turd, I like your method it sounds simple enough and from what you decribe it works good
- Daffy, your method also sounds good, nice and quick

Cheers Very Happy

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I agree, both methods sound good. Cool

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Can you shrink the size of the hole for use with squirrels or does that not work the same?

Not too sure about that.

However for squirlls your best bet is a figure 4 deadfall.

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I will see. Because I will most likely not eat the animals, I do not want to kill them. That was just out of curiousity. I will probably make the bigger mousetrap set up to catch some rodents or something and feed them a bit see how they are then let them go.

Thanks Max (and sorry it took so darn long for me to be able to post...comp. trouble)

no worries I know the feeling Laughing

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	TrooperMax wrote:
	Not too sure about that. However for squirlls your best bet is a figure 4 deadfall.

not exactly true. I feel more confident in a snare that is sized down to a squirrel size than i am a figure 4. You can see where squirrels run into their burrows at the bottom of trees (usually just big enough for the squirrel) and if you have the snare wire and make it there your chances of getting one is great. With the figure 4 you need bait, and if you use natural bait your chances are really up in the air unless there is not a significant amount of food in the area.

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