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Post by Sunshine on Jul 8, 2007 7:43:13 GMT -5
Does the size wire used in snares vary with each animal or is it universal?
What size is best?
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Post by cajunbill2 on Jul 9, 2007 15:06:35 GMT -5
rustytrap is right..but for a all a round snare i use the 5/64 snare on a kill pole....i use the 1/16 snare for cats ...the support wire i use the number 9 and 11 gauge wire which rusty is right a little flimsy but works by doubling the wire
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Post by bill1306 on Jul 12, 2007 9:09:03 GMT -5
For coons, cats, coyotes, I use 45 inches of 1/16 with a cam lock, break away and and a 10 foot 3/32 lead attached to the snare swivel. I stake it down and support the snare with a devil's hat pin. Once the animal feels the snare on it's neck it will make a mad dash to get away and when it comes to the end of the lead, it is like setting the hook on a big fish. Tight and quick, also it has the animal away from the original set location and leaving the original area undisturbed. This will allow you to reset the trail exactly like it was before the catch was made. A few time I have reused the same snare to catch more animals without even moving it. Good long lead with a good swivel and the snare won't get kinked up and it can be reused, not all of the time, but sometimes. Last year I had a set on a beaver trail that went over the top of a large man made dam. Within the first four days of trapping season, I had caught two beavers and two coons with the same snare. The last coon destroyed the snare when it wrapped the swivel with grass.
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Post by Earl8656 on Jul 12, 2007 11:23:18 GMT -5
I use the 1/16, cable with 1/19 for everything. The smaller wire in the 1/19 seems to prevent chewing as much. Cable is plenty strong for everything I trap! I use 11 guage wire with a "w" bend in it for ease of setting and it will release from the cable when a catch is made. "Newt" from NJ, gives an excellent demonstration on this and will be at various conventions this summer......He's gonna be at VA next week!
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Post by Sunshine on Jul 12, 2007 16:21:04 GMT -5
Thanks guys for the info..anyone have a good pic of a snare set up?
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Post by billfrank on Jul 12, 2007 21:25:31 GMT -5
3/32 for everything in my area.
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Post by Sunshine on Jul 12, 2007 23:01:29 GMT -5
thanks rusty
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Post by Sunshine on Jul 15, 2007 8:34:37 GMT -5
i just wanna see even how you make one..everything you can show me about them
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Post by bill1306 on Jul 15, 2007 12:03:09 GMT -5
Here is a picture of the snare setup I talked about earlier in this thread. The snare had already caught two beavers and one coon, before I had taken this picture. The next day the coon I caught destroyed the set location and the snare. If you look close you can see the number nine wire on the devils hat pin holding up the snare loop over the trail.
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Post by Sunshine on Jul 15, 2007 12:17:05 GMT -5
ty for the set-up pic
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Post by bill1306 on Jul 15, 2007 12:25:45 GMT -5
You can see the #9 wire snaking down in from the upper right hand corner, the snare cables are painted with a flat gray paint so the animals can't see it as well, it is also hard for us to see it.
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Post by cattrax on Sept 3, 2007 22:44:28 GMT -5
I paint mine a tan color to match the grass better, and if I use them for cats I will spray them tan and then streak them with a green and brown to camo them better.
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Post by rossshooter on Sept 20, 2007 8:53:26 GMT -5
3/32 works for coon to coyote for me.
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Post by cajunbill2 on Sept 20, 2007 18:42:02 GMT -5
rossshooter yes they will but a cat will back out every time...thats why i mix the size of my snares...when i snared in casper wyo...i would rather have a $300.00 cat over a $30.00 yote any day
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ADC
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Post by ADC on Sept 21, 2007 11:56:30 GMT -5
Unfotunantly he's not going to be doing a lot of cat snaring in Iowa Bill, and there will be no $300 cats sold here at all. There is a quota of 150 cats and only one per trapper starting Nov. 3, way before they will be prime.
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Post by Earl8656 on Oct 19, 2007 4:43:08 GMT -5
Is the cat population geting stronger in IA, or just holding its own? Ours is getting stronger every year.
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ADC
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Post by ADC on Oct 22, 2007 10:38:12 GMT -5
I'm not in the part of the state with many cats but I heard they are doing very well in the more wooded areas of the state.
~ADC~
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Post by Earl8656 on Oct 22, 2007 16:38:05 GMT -5
Just saw some pics of your part of the country a little while ago. You might recognize this gas station.
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k9
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Post by k9 on Oct 23, 2007 13:13:26 GMT -5
Hey that's the Brooklyn Kum and Go. If you are ever in there and a girl named Kaycee is working behind the counter, that is my daughter and say hello.
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Post by Earl8656 on Oct 23, 2007 18:28:27 GMT -5
LOL, didn't know that, I ain't planning on being there no time soon. the lady that Cat stayed with rode by there and said her husband knew you and ADC.
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Post by glen on Oct 28, 2007 13:39:54 GMT -5
I like 1/16 1/19 loaded up heavy with a bmi mini lock. I cut my cable 40" long
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Post by Earl8656 on Nov 1, 2007 1:38:39 GMT -5
40", well you have to wrap em up so they don't drag the ground when u carry em then......lol ;D
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Post by glen on Nov 2, 2007 5:54:34 GMT -5
some of us are more vertically challenged that others
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Post by Earl8656 on Nov 3, 2007 19:41:01 GMT -5
vertically challenged? .....thats like sayng Mt everest is a hill....LMAO ;D
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Post by glen on Nov 7, 2007 13:16:43 GMT -5
you funny as a box of rocks
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Post by Earl8656 on Nov 7, 2007 13:43:24 GMT -5
;D ;D
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Post by glen on Nov 7, 2007 18:26:15 GMT -5
At least I'm not horizonally challenged;D;)
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Post by Earl8656 on Nov 7, 2007 18:50:40 GMT -5
LMAO......nah u take up a lot of the horizon ;D.......
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Post by glen on Nov 8, 2007 17:16:53 GMT -5
THAT"S IT I"M TAKING OFF THE GLOVES, Just for that I promise you I'll come to madison to trap. ;D
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Post by Earl8656 on Nov 8, 2007 18:53:53 GMT -5
LMAO, u left yourself wide open! U know how fond Roscoe P. Coletrain was of Boss Hogg, I feel the same about you ;D
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