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How to Make a Snare | Live Free or Die: DIY


if you’re planning on catching an animal
one of the simplest kind of traps that
you can build is a snare you can make it
out of a find a piece of cordage string
there’s a piece of electrical appliance
cord now I don’t have electricity so I
don’t have any appliances but you find
this stuff in the trash and in dumpsters
it’s pretty easy to take this stuff
apart what you want to do is take the
rubber cord off of it you just grab one
in and get some friction and hold the
rubber off of it I’m simply gonna trim
it off with the edge of my knife now my
next step is decide how many strands I
need and they’re not twisted very
tightly so I can just pull them apart
what I want to do with it now is twist
it back together I just need to twist it
one way just enough to make it hold
together what I want is a slip knot on
the end of it but I’d like a slip knot
that locks the simplest way that I found
is simply tie a loop that’s doubled once
you tie a loop that’s doubled it is kind
of as small as possible and twist it
together what you have then is a little
tiny loop the way this works is once I
put the other end in it when I pull it
tight it’ll tend to grip itself then
I’ve get the snare wire I’m gonna make a
loop about the right size for my target
animal the target animals gonna be a
rabbit this is a red that he will hit he
walks with his ears back he’s about the
size of my fist like this I want him to
squeeze through easily and as he pulls
through it simply slides around his neck
anchor the snare to something solid and
this small tree should hold now what
I’ve got to do next is figure out how
high the rabbits head is off the ground
so I need that about right there what I
found is the best way to hold it in
place where you want it is to simply
wrap your snare around a stick then I’ll
shove that in the ground so now I have a
rabbit trail with a piece of copper wire
coming across it looks totally natural
it’ll work for a day a week even a year
all I got to do is come by and check it
so rabbits is going from garden to
garden in the neighbor
just walking along you doing man there’s
a nice looking garden over there I think
those people are at work today well this
is great I’m gonna check out their
lettuce oh I can get through that no
problem at all man I can’t reach that
and at night you’ll have a rabbit laying
right there ready to go with your
vegetables rabbit stew
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