how do you make a snare trap??? I was reading in a book, and hte person was making snares to get game for fur. just wanted to know

Actually, they are cheap enough that you can afford to purchase a dozen of them for about $10.00.

But if you want to make one, get yourself a 5 foot long piece of 7 x 7 3/32 aircraft cable.
take a washer, 1/2 inch size is good, and drill two holes in it opposite each other. make the holes just a hair bigger than the aircraft cable. then bend the washer in the middle so it flares out 90 degrees on both sides.

Get yourself a couple of small steel nuts (hole not much bigger than they aircraft cable.)

run one end of the aircraft cable into one of the holes you drilled in the washer. pound the nut on it. then run the other end through the other hole in the washer. With this end you need to make a little circle so run the end through the nut a little further, double it back through the nut, and then pound the nut. That is your tieoff end.

Now make your cable loop for the size animal that you want to catch.

If you do a google search for animal snares you should be able to find some good photos of them so you can see what I just told you. And you can probably find a trapper supply house that will sell you some.

Now I will tell you how to use them.

Animals, like people, are habitual, and also sometimes lazy. They like to travel in the same spots they traveled in before, and in the winter when the snow gets really really deep, they only like to make a trail once if they can help it.

One way to catch them in the winter time is to drive along country roads a day or two after a fresh snowfall looking for tracks that have crossed the road.

what you want to do is go on the side where the tracks came from about 15-20 yards away from the tracks and enter the woods. go back in the woods a ways and approach the animal tracks carefully. look for a spot where the tracks went through a narrow place like a couple of trees or brush, or long grass. approach that spot and hang your noose so that the bottom of the noose is about 8-9 inches from the top of the snow, and the top of the noose is about another 10-12 inches up. tie it off to something solid.

Then, back off one step at a time in the same tracks you walked in on. As you back off a step, fill the step in with snow and brush it off on top so that for about 5 feet from the set you can't tell that you were ever there.

When the coyote or fox comes back on his rounds he will have a tendency to walk in his exact same tracks that he walked in before. he will go right through your noose and you will catch him if you have been careful enough not to disturb things in his trail.

Good luck.

thanks

Interesting to read how its done.

Let us know how you make out with it.

I caught a feral cat a couple weeks ago with my self made snare. They've gotten wild and won't hold still long enough to get a shot at 'em.

George