Building traps

[Highlander]

(26 September 2011, 19:42)Skean Dhude Wrote: What are the best traps for that sort of thing? Remember we will be looking at rabbits, squirrels, moles and birds mainly. Where I am there are few other animals we could eat.

To go back to your original question, the best traps are those that work against the prey themselves,.. so anything that goes around the neck, either keeping it on the ground or lifts the animal off the ground, either way the animals body weight breaks its own neck

So snares are usually the best

Traps using heavy weights are usually fairly good if set up right, but there is always the chance that the animal is either a bit faster than you thought he would be, and gets his leg caught only,... or the animal that sets off the trap, is not what you hoped for, i.e. a trap set for a rabbit that is sprung by a Wildcat or stray dog

Trapping is certainly not a sure thing

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Moles are easy to catch, I used to get my pocket money when I was a kid doing... ` tanner a tail`,..i.e. sixpence for each mole I caught

I still have a couple of mole traps here, I must get some more