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quixote

Joined: 26 Oct 2006
Posts: 198

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 06 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: Snaring

Treacodactyl wrote:

Rather than leave a snare animal for a few hours I'd like to dispatch them asap.

Good philosophy, but it's a bit impractical. You'd need to be watching your snares pretty much constantly to ensure every animal was dispatched quickly. The reality is, that when the animal's caught it settles down after a few minutes (unless it kills itself first) I find a lot of them just hunker down in the grass once they realise they can't escape. If the snares are set out in the open it's a different matter as they'll try everything to get back into cover (this is most likely when you'll find them already dead in the snare)

The guidelines state that they MUST be checked at least once a day (or once every 24 hours!) I check mine twice a day minimum, but sometimes more often if I'm out n' about anyway.

I generally have about 10/15 snares if I'm after buns for myself, and up to 150 if there's a particularly large problem (150 are hard to handle by yourself though!! It takes a long time to get round them all & you BETTER have a quad unless you've got shoulders like Arnie!!!

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KILLITnGRILLIT

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 894
Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 06 10:02 am Post subject:
There is another site i go on which has a lot of snaring/trapping advice and there is a new fox snare that is being trialled/used which will release anything bigger than a fox.It also works for the times if a snare is moved or slips and a fox gets caught around the middle and will release it.

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