I bought some Breakaway rabbit snares from a member on here and set 25 on one side of a dale, on the other side I set a further 25 conventional rabbit snares.
When I checked them the next morning I had lost 8 rabbits to the Breakaway system failing, 3 of which broke away just as I was walking up to them, the only rabbit to be held in a Breakaway snare was a half grown one.
I checked the other conventional snares and had caught (and held) 11 rabbits, so I thought I would weigh the rabbits to make sure they weren't on steroids.
The heaviest weighed 1.8kg and the lightest weighed 1.4kg and