Post by woodyz on Jan 10, 2013 17:34:22 GMT -7
I am always trying different ways to set up a snare and get results.
This time I am after some coyotes that are after our chickens and ducks.
So far it is coyotes 4 chickens and 3 ducks. Woodyz 0. But I have only had the snares up a couple of days and we have had lights left on, etc. trying to keep them away as long as possible so they get careless.
I looked on utube and some posts here by offtrail, but I wanted something I could use a wrist sized tree as a spring. Most spring snares I have set were with thumb sized trees. But I wanted something very fast and very strong.
The snare shop makes a kill spring and a ram spring that both do very quick kills and I have had good luck with them on coyotes, bobcat and fox. But they are illegal in some states so I was looking for an option I could prove out and share. And since I have four coyotes willing to be put to the test, what better timing. We have locked up the ducks and chickens we want to keep and I am not concerned with loosing the six chickens we have left. So they will be bait this weekend.
On to the snares. The first set of pictures is snare one set at a dead fall on a fire break they run. I screwed an eye bolt into the bottom of the dead fall and bent down a wrist sized tree.
Picture one is the snare. About a foot around and 7" high. The coyote will lower its head to go under and put it right in the loop, then spook and run when it feels resistance.
The second is a close up of the eye bolt. You can also see that I am holding the snare open with some loosely wrapped thin wire, that will just Break away.
Third is the tree bent to the dead fall.
Second set shows another snare made with para-cord. It is about 16" (a little too big) and 8" off the ground. I am just going to leave it as is until it gets sprung. First pic is to show the tree used.
Second pic shows the snare, it is not part of the bright green cord.
A limb runs a cross the opening about two foot high and the snare runs across the top and hangs down. Again it is held open with loose wrap of thin wire.
The third picture is the trigger. I used an eye bolt again and ran the line from the tree thru a piece of pvc in the eye, you can see a knot as the line comes out of the pvc where a sharpended stick comes out, that iis wedged in. the tentsion on the line keeps the trigger stick in. it requires no further a frame of sticks. When the coyote pulls through the snare it will pull on the cord releasing the tension and pulling the stick out, which then lets the tree pull the snare very fast and hard. It should put the coyotes ear in the eye bolt. It would probabaly dislocate my shoulder if I caught my hand in it.
I have used small eye bolts to set trip wires and small snares for years and always had good luck.
This way knowing where the coyotes will be gives me a chance to use a man sized tree. A much smaller tree will work and the "h" and tepee triggers will work on those. I am just after quick and hard.
This time I am after some coyotes that are after our chickens and ducks.
So far it is coyotes 4 chickens and 3 ducks. Woodyz 0. But I have only had the snares up a couple of days and we have had lights left on, etc. trying to keep them away as long as possible so they get careless.
I looked on utube and some posts here by offtrail, but I wanted something I could use a wrist sized tree as a spring. Most spring snares I have set were with thumb sized trees. But I wanted something very fast and very strong.
The snare shop makes a kill spring and a ram spring that both do very quick kills and I have had good luck with them on coyotes, bobcat and fox. But they are illegal in some states so I was looking for an option I could prove out and share. And since I have four coyotes willing to be put to the test, what better timing. We have locked up the ducks and chickens we want to keep and I am not concerned with loosing the six chickens we have left. So they will be bait this weekend.
On to the snares. The first set of pictures is snare one set at a dead fall on a fire break they run. I screwed an eye bolt into the bottom of the dead fall and bent down a wrist sized tree.
Picture one is the snare. About a foot around and 7" high. The coyote will lower its head to go under and put it right in the loop, then spook and run when it feels resistance.
The second is a close up of the eye bolt. You can also see that I am holding the snare open with some loosely wrapped thin wire, that will just Break away.
Third is the tree bent to the dead fall.
Second set shows another snare made with para-cord. It is about 16" (a little too big) and 8" off the ground. I am just going to leave it as is until it gets sprung. First pic is to show the tree used.
Second pic shows the snare, it is not part of the bright green cord.
A limb runs a cross the opening about two foot high and the snare runs across the top and hangs down. Again it is held open with loose wrap of thin wire.
The third picture is the trigger. I used an eye bolt again and ran the line from the tree thru a piece of pvc in the eye, you can see a knot as the line comes out of the pvc where a sharpended stick comes out, that iis wedged in. the tentsion on the line keeps the trigger stick in. it requires no further a frame of sticks. When the coyote pulls through the snare it will pull on the cord releasing the tension and pulling the stick out, which then lets the tree pull the snare very fast and hard. It should put the coyotes ear in the eye bolt. It would probabaly dislocate my shoulder if I caught my hand in it.
I have used small eye bolts to set trip wires and small snares for years and always had good luck.
This way knowing where the coyotes will be gives me a chance to use a man sized tree. A much smaller tree will work and the "h" and tepee triggers will work on those. I am just after quick and hard.
