This might sound kinda dum but is there a way to make a trap out of a sapling tree and a rope like you see on movies??? If not is there another way to make a homemade trap??? Thanks for all input

You mean a snare? Im guessing the sapling in the movie was used as a drag substitute. You can make a snare with simple material that you can purchase at Lowes. Just run a search on "google" for home made snares and you should get several links.

Its hard to explain but it can be done.

A snare catches the animal which moves in the snare pulling the bent over sapling off a peg that was holding it in the down position.

I know that its very easy to make a snare depending on what your trying to catch with it, but I think I heard about a trap thats more along the lines of what your thinking of.

I ran a google search a while ago just to check out some trapping photo galleries. There were a couple animals that were caught in some kind of trap. I think they called it a "German leghold trap." It was made out of some kind of sapling, but im not sure how it worked.

Anyone else know any info about this?

you can try a deadfall,there is also a snare you can rig ona small game trail that gets attached to a bent over sapling being held by a small wooden stake

One day I found some old wire in my house and decided to try and make a snare. I just looped the wire around and tied a loose knot about six inches up. I tied the end toa tree and the next morning I had a delicious rabbit dead. Work well for not knowing what I was doing.

No it's really not hard, I know in my field and streammagizine they show how to survive and that is on of the traps they use, it takes practice to make it butit can be done

We used to make our own rabbit boxes all the time. We used them to catch live rabbits when we were starting beagle pups.