A friend of mine bought one of these and showed it to me over the weekend. Interesting but I'm not sure it's any better than a regular snare except that it can be set anywhere hogs are traveling. So far, he has caught no hogs, the coons have been throwing it. Apparently coons like hog trails for traveling, too. It is also not really easy to set. Personally I'll pass but I thought I'd put it here for general interest.

holdahawg

My only question, is what happens if a deer steps in the thing?

I asked the same thing, and the answer was, "I dunno, but you'd probably have a caught deer."

It can be placed on hog trails where deer are not likely to be walking, but there is no guarantee, of course.

There is the same problem with regular snares, but it is easier to put them where deer are not likely to get in them IMO.

That is my complaint about regular snares. If a person is experienced in their use, then the odds of catching a deer are greatly reduced.

To me the problems comes in when un-experienced individuals set these type things.

Looks like a good idea and for someone experienced in trapping and using snares they would be a good option.

I know for a fact even a very tame deer can be a real challenge to handle on a rope. Folks had a yr old buck muley come to the farm yard late one summer. Was quite tame. They had it in the house, Dad fed it toast while he was in bed sick. Buck got tangled in the Christmas tree lights and nearly destroyed the living room and all the contents.

That next spring n summer it had nice forkhorns and it and two colts chased each other around the place all the time. They were having lunch one day when my 8y/o neice started screaming. The buck had his horns on each side and was butting her in the chest. Dad roped the buck and off they went for a real battle.

By the time it was over with. Dad had sawed the horns off and one had broken out of the skull. That tamed it down again and no further problems. That late spring they came to town and when they got back. Saw tracks in the snow where buck had followed them down the ditch road and someone loaded it up. Never to be seen again.
Couple months later I got out of the Army and went looking. Found what I feel was the same buck at an animal farm. Folks didn't want to go look as they knew the guy well enough for many yrs and buck was in with some other game and cattle, colts etc well taken care of. End of story.

Just know you catch a deer in a snare you're gonna have a battle on your hands.
George

I sell a very similar product, at my sporting goods store. To keep out the
Deer out of the snare u use a product that the deer find offensive, but the hogs do not.

If you guys read the website you'd see that they have some sort of stop clipped on the wire to prevent deer getting caught.

No. If it will catch a hog, it will catch a deer. Period.

They have/recommend using a flexible plastic hose over the snare end so that deer can be released unharmed. I am not so sure how easy that would be to accomplish.