Survivalists Guide to Survival Traps and Snares

[AZ Prepper]

Survivalists Guide to Survival Traps and Snares
Link: http://offgridsurvival.com/survival-traps-and-snares/

Snares and Traps are designed to choke, crush, hang, or entangle the animals that you are trying to catch.

The best traps are usually very simple and you will increase your chances of catching a meal by using two or more of these methods. When using traps and snares, numbers are important. The more traps that you place, the better your chances of catching something become.

Here are a few of the most common types of traps and snares used in a survival situation.

A simple snare



The Simple Snare is made from a noose. The snare is placed over a trail or den hole and attached to a stake. This type of snare can also be placed on known game trail with small twigs to keep it in place.
Make sure that the noose is large enough to allow the animals head to pass through it. As the animal moves through the snare it should tighten around its neck. The more the animal struggles to get lose the tighter the snare will get. Snares usually do not kill the animal, so make sure you use wire that is strong enough to keep the animal in place until you return to the trap.

Baiting a trap



Baiting a trap or snare will help you improve your chances of catching something to eat! Unlike a normal snare, a baited snare can actually help you draw animals in towards the trap. Make sure that the bait is something the animal is familiar with, but not something that is so widely available in the surrounding area.

The Figure-four dead fall



The Figure-four dead fall is gets it’s name from the number of shapes that make up this trap. The Figure-four uses a trigger to drop a heavy object onto an animal. The object should be heavy enough to kill the animal on impact.

Dead fall Pit



If you are stranded for a long period of time without a gun or other means of hunting, then a dead fall pit is a great way of catching larger animals. This dead fall pit works is a good way to catch larger animals but keep in mind that it will take a lot of time and energy to build.Make sure you have a good supply of food before building a trap like this. You will need your energy!

• First look for a game trail.
• Then start to dig your pit near the trail.
• When it is deep enough to hold the intended animal, place sharpened sticks in the bottom that point up.
• When your pit is finished put together a grill of long branches and then cover them with leaves and grass.
• Place them over the pit

A word of warning



These traps are for informational purposes only, they are extremely dangerous, and some of them can be lethal. In some parts of the country using them is also illegal. You should never use traps or snares unless you are in a true survival situation.

[Kelly Alwood]

this is another skill that i am very passionate about...this is a critical skill to have...you must learn to trap or starve...you cannot possibly pack enough food for extended trips..you must be able to gather food along the way....this is a skill that takes ALOT of practice and time to get good at...how do you know when you are good enough? when you can go out in the woods, set your traps and snares, and have something dead in them to eat the next day...it is completely possible to do this...but you must get propper, real instruction from professionals who do it...i will follow up with some advise, tips, and techniques...

[Kelly Alwood]

This is the catch of a rabbit in a cable snare. Snares really can feed you in a survival situation, if done properly and with the right propperly built snares.

[Kelly Alwood]

Teaching trapping for food to the locals at the Dead Sea, in Jordan...High mountain dessert survival...

[AZ Prepper]

Teaching trapping for food to the locals at the Dead Sea, in Jordan...High mountain dessert survival...

Very cool! Take lots of pics and share with us how it went!