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Offline Sourdough

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Snares and Deadfalls
« on: April 05, 2009, 03:37:26 PM »
How many people know how to set dead falls, and snares?  Making the trigger for a dead fall is the tricky part.  They sure do work, and saves having to use ammo to shoot them.  And under a survival situation snaring a larger animal over night may be more effective than trying to hunt during the day.  Again you can save ammunition.
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Re: Snares and Deadfalls
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2009, 09:55:11 PM »
There are a lot of books available on trapping and making snares and traps.

There are web-sites for the same thing... Google is your friend...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Dead+fall+traps&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=


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Re: Snares and Deadfalls
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2009, 02:52:28 AM »
Back in the early 70's when I was in Jr  High I read a book that I really enjoyed called My side of the Mountain and shows details on snares and deadfalls,and since I lived close to the woods I had to try them out to see if they really worked,and by golly they did.
It seems wrong now but as a child you like to try things even if it kills an animal I did not plan to eat.
I remember the figure 4 dead fall was tuff to get right. :-\
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Re: Snares and Deadfalls
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2009, 03:50:58 PM »
darn good book. The movie sucked but what do you expect  ;D
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Re: Snares and Deadfalls
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2009, 10:30:03 AM »
Here is a link to a Cody Lundin video showing a deadfall being used. Not really a "how to" video though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46qjt7T8RE
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Re: Snares and Deadfalls
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2009, 11:23:38 AM »
Yea I saw the movie years later is was pretty bad. ::)
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