Small Game, Predator and TrappingFrom shooting squirrels in your backyard to calling coyotes in Arizona. This forum now contains trapping information..
I snare some coons. You need to know that it is hard to hold a coon around the neck with a snare so you set them to body snare and they will be alive. For this reason I use a washer lock snare, it relaxes a little if the coon quits pulling. You treat the animal better this way. I like 3/32 cable snares for coon, they will chew on them and I haven' t had one chew this in half yet. Use a loop nine inches in diameter and three to four inches off the ground. If you are new to snaring I would strongly reccommend pig tail supports and snares with wammies on them. This will make them much easier to set and save you a lot of headaches. You set them in trails that coons are using. One thing you need to remember with snares is they don' t discrimminate, you need to set them carefully. You should also have deer stops on them, this will only let the snare close to around 2inches so deer will not be caught if they step in them. I would reccommend going to the Snare Shop web site, www.huntertrapper.com. This is where I get all my snares and supplies, nice people and very helpful. Have I just confused you? Let me know.
No, you didnt confuse me. That was good information thanks for sharing it. It was very helpful to me and thanks for the web site ill have to check it out.
First off, for raccoons, pretty much the only way to snare them is to find out where they are going into something, like into the walls of a grainery or into a hole in a hollow tree, you get the picture.... Leg-holds and conibears work a whole lot better for coons, plus....
There isn' t much else that angers me more than snares, trapping I can condone, but a snare just isn' t a good way to do it. Of course, I' m a hounder, so I' m slightly biased, but after all the snares I cut this year from property they weren' t supposed to be on, and after so many times of saving my hounds from them, I' m not very sympathetic to those that snare. Conibears are one thing, a good hound knows better than to stick his head in a bucket while he' s hunting, but when he' s following a coon' s feeding trail and suddenly gets hung up, there isn' t any way he could have avoided it.
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I am also a hound hunter and I snare, with the right kind of snares dogs are not a problem. A snare with a relaxing lock, such as a washer lock won' t choke of kill a dog if they quit pulling. I snared the same dog three times two years ago, he was sleeping when I found him all three times. The rancher where I was snaring owned him, the rancher knew where the snares were and he also told me he would keep the dog in his pen, which I also reccommended. I have yet to take a dead animal out of a relaxing lock snare, even coyotes, which are not real calm when trapped, are alive, it doesn' t take them long to figure out if they don' t pull it doesn' t choke. If someone is tresspassing and setting snares it is wrong, why does it matter what they set snares, traps it is both wrong. I would rather have my hound in a relaxing lock snare than to step in a #3 blind set in a trail. Some snares kill, and they do it very quickly and efficiantly. I set a lot of them and I catch a lot of coyotes in them, the quick distpatch snares are much more humane than a foothold trap. I have permission everywhere I trap or snare. If I knew someone else had permission to hunt an area I wouldn' t trap or snare it. I don' t think it is fair to lump snares into being a bad thing because some unethical person is tresspassing. Do what I do, if I find snares that don' t belong to me where I know they don' t belong, cut them with a side cutter and leave a little note attatched to them, or simply call the game warden. There was a reason I suggested washer lock snares in the post above. They are safe, until you have some experience with snares they are the way to go. If you don' t believe me, take a little vacation next winter, come see me, you can go along on the trapline and I will show you.
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