Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: gene roberts on October 30, 2007, 10:08:46 pm
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anybody got any weird or unusual traps that they make for small game or something.i dont please include how to make them too.thanks
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Might not be wierd,but simple.Try a trap line of Rat traps screwed to the tree baited with peanut butter.squirrels love it
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yeah mullet, I used rat traps to capture long-tailed weasels and mouse traps tacked on cedar siding to remove bats from a house.
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yeah,i guess thats good enough,a got a sort of weird one.get a long pole and stick it in the middle of a feild and put a small trap at the top.it works on hawks,but its kinda illegal.
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Down here in the south,some Folk's like to eat baked 'possum.An easy way to trap them is to take a 55 gal drum and put a can of sardeans' in the bottom.Then lean a 1 x6 to the lip.They will crawl up and jump in like a garbage can.'Coons too.
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That's some purty interesting stuff. I heard of this one when I was a kid running a small trapline. Bore a hole in a block of wood about 2"X2" then drive in four (ground to a very fine needle point) nails angled in from four sides with enough room for a coon to reach in, put some kind of shiny object in the hole. The coon will reach in and clench his fist around said object and not be able to pull back out past the nails - shazam............he wont let go they said - it never worked for me ;D.
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Coon trap. Drill a 1 inch hole in a log about two inches deep. Drive two sharppened 6 penny nails at an angle so that each nail comes through the hole about 1 inch from the of the hole. The tips of the nails should be about 1/2 inch from each other.
Put bait in the bottom of the hole. When a coon reaches down to grab the bait and tries to pull it out the nails will hole him until you get there.
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Here is one an ole timer told me about. Take an old fashioned box spring, remember the ones with no fabric? just springs.
Stake it down in the woods, sprinkle corn in it, when old mossy horns comes to eat his antlers get tangled in the springs,
then ... well you get the idear.
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yeah some of those are kinda weird but does anyone have a really weird one.
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My grandpa told me of a feller back in the depression days ,made a line of small treble hooks(like a trot line)bait it with corn and set it just high enough for the turkeys to get hooked eating the corn.I thought that was a little weird or are ya lookin for like the game mouse trap weird? Auggie.
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i learned the hardway how to make a booby trap with a mousetrap and some salt peter loads. was in somebodies reefer field in ocheechobee when i got hit with one of em. oooowwwwwwwwwwwww
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Only traps I know are the Ojibwa bird-snare (the little noose on a loose stick) and Paiute deadfall for mice and rats ???.
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Jamie,Ya' huntin' or harvesting? ;D
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takin the fifth on that one ;D
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thanks for the ideas
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i use the dead fall style traps with crates instead of rocks for catchin rabbits
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http://www.wilderness-survival.net/food-2.php
http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/traps/index.html
http://www.survivaliq.com/survival/food-procurement_s2.htm
http://www.wilderness-survival-skills.com/trapanimals.html
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I've did this one when i was smaller. Get a long bit of string and knot a bit of bacon on the end and cover it with animal fat, leave it out for a turkey and when it eats it, it will out straight out the other end. Now you have a bird on a string....... >:D
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Nice one Cromm.
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to catch a pola bear cut a hole in the ice and put peas around it when he comes down for a pea kick him in the icehole
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That bacon on a stick works with geese too. My grandad told me about a kid that had a half dozen geese on a string when he was a young-un ;)
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I built a small version of a "Ed's Trigger" snare at the house Sunday night.
It took a while but, once it was all worked out it worked well.
I hope to build a larger one soon and catch me a beaver.
David
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That polar bear joke was one of my dad's favorites.....
I read somewhere that they would coil splinters of bone in a mold and pour in melted fat, , then freeze. after a polar bear ate several of the chunks, they would thaw and skewer his insides. What a way to go.
I have relocated about 20 copperheads and 2 rattlers from my yard - the tame corn snakes I keep in my classroom eat mice, and I put mice "litter" under logs on the perimiter of the yard. When I get home from work, I take a hoe and a rubbermaid container and flip 'em over one by one. A few copperheads have "not made it", and are waiting for a really good bow, after getting into spaces I couldn't safely catch them. The rattlers are so rare and reproduce so slow I can't see killing one. This guy was about 43" NTN (Nose to noisemaker) so his "draw length" was about 18", so as long as I kept a few feet away, he couldn't get me. He had 14 rattles. The pair of copperheads was gettin' ready to get busy in April as we moved in 6 years ago. So Basicsally, I bought a house smack dab on a den site. (Wife was happy to hear this)"mug shots" prove that no snakes returned after release.
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Postman: Looks like you got plenty of snakeskin backing's there ;). Used to see em like that when I was younger but just don't happen anymore - I'm wondering if their not there anymore or am I alway busy and just dont see em anymore.
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The coon traps sound like the monkey traps. They would take coconut shell, clean it out, and cut a 3/4 to one inch hole in one end, and use the natural hole in the other end, and run a string through it, and make a knot , so it could not be pulled out, and then they would tie the string to a stake, or limb. They they would put pieces of coconut in the larger hole, and set the coconut on a log, or limb, and like the coon the greedy monkey would not let go till captured. Another trap, was for getting rid of rats, and it was just a large, gallon or more jar, with the lid off, and a piece of paper tied over the top, or use a rubber band, and then with a razor, cut a large " X " in the center of the paper. Then suspend a piece of cheese or bread on a piece of string just above the the " X ", and when the rat goes to get the bait, oops, in he goes. The one I made as a kid, was filled with water. Got rid of a couple of rats that way. Can't remember where I read about that one. I think it might have been in the " Boys Handbook " a Friend of mine gave me. It was his dad's. I was printed in about 1905 or so. Had things like whale bone shooters, etc. There is another simple squirrel snare, you can make also. Just wrap a piece of baling wire, around a limb, and then wrap a loop above the limb, and tie, a slip noose, and suspend it in the loop. Bait, the trap, or if it is a limb that is used often you don't have to bait it. You can also use existing limbs, and twigs, on the larger limb to suspend the loop.
Stick Bender
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Another type of trap used to catch coon, skunks or the neihbors annoying cat is a teepee shaped trap made from stones,logs, dirt etc. the side are too steep to climb back out of.
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I know of a few that are killing traps. there are the figure four that uses a heavy weight to break the animals back. and then the is the pit trap. take a bunch of sharp sticks and stick them into the ground pointy side up and put something flexable over the top. there are snares that you just need some down rigger line or what ever and make a loop and tie the free end to a tree or branch.
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this is highly illegal, but in a life or deeath situation..anything goes...
an old trapper told me he used to lighten up his laod while on the trapline in the n.w.t. he would haul the wolf,badger,wolverine and bear traps, and buy 3-400pc razor blades .
he would then save his fat and grizzle from the skins and add bacon grease and all along his trapline within eyeshot he put a string of these razorblades in a small sappling about 10 inches from the snowline...
he would simply score and split the sappling and slide insert the blade...
then he would slather it up with the lard.
arctic fox,and cross fox,marten,pine fisher would lick it all up and not even know they were bieng cut!!!!
they would usualy bleed out within 10-20 feet he said and its super quick!
then he re greases it and with the blood all over he said he carried an old russian bolt action mil surp gun, to kill fox and wolves and bear that came in to investigate for a quick meal.
makes ya think huh!
pretty cool i thought.
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Heard a similar story about killing wolves - freeze knife blade(s) up in the ice of a pond/river, slather with blood and wait...
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A cheap and easy trap for possums and coons is to take a 55 gal drum and lean a board up to the top. A ramp one can walk up. Just put sardines or some other choice meat in the drum and they will jump in and be there when you check it in the morning.
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dang... thats a pretty good idea. CODYU LUNDIN lived in the wild for two years, a bit of a hippie, but he has some great survival traps. my grampa tought me one, AND no string is reuired. simpily dig a hole, sharpen stakes with a knive (possibly flintknapped knife) and put them douwnward in the ground. the snare, in my mind, is a more reliable trap, for it keeps the animal alive, thus keeping the meat fresh- but ive heard stories about people's rabbits being stolen by other preators from the animals distress calls, its a mix of ideas. a russian kid i know can make a few sapling snares within a few minutes, but to be 100 percent honest, im not sure how much of an anvantage they have on the humble snare ;D