can you snare a

[Guest foxtrack]

right boys ive seen the wire boys on here can snare anything from a fox to a mouse

but have any one ever caught a stoat or weasle.

i know its a tall order but can it be done

[Butler 396]

I know for sure peg&gun has he posted the pics a while back

[Guest foxtrack]

I know for sure peg&gun has he posted the pics a while back

well im gob smacked id love to see them pics

it cant be very common more by accident i would havr thought

[DUCKWING 302]

WELL LADS ,

 

IT CAN BE DONE , THOUGH MY CATCHES HAVE ALL BEEN WHILE SNAREING RATS , IVE HAD WEASELS STOATS AND A FEW MINK WHILE DOING STREAMS , PROBABLY WHILE THEY WERE HUNTING RATS AS WELL

 

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DUCKWING

[moley 115]

WELL LADS ,

 

IT CAN BE DONE , THOUGH MY CATCHES HAVE ALL BEEN WHILE SNAREING RATS , IVE HAD WEASELS STOATS AND A FEW MINK WHILE DOING STREAMS , PROBABLY WHILE THEY WERE HUNTING RATS AS WELL

 

ALL THE BEST

 

 

DUCKWING

 

i have snared plenty of mink by design , only ever had one stoat in a snare set for squirrels on a log over a stream, had a couple of weasels and a stoat in mole traps

[victoria vixen 0]

WELL LADS ,

 

IT CAN BE DONE , THOUGH MY CATCHES HAVE ALL BEEN WHILE SNAREING RATS , IVE HAD WEASELS STOATS AND A FEW MINK WHILE DOING STREAMS , PROBABLY WHILE THEY WERE HUNTING RATS AS WELL

 

ALL THE BEST

 

 

DUCKWING

 

i have snared plenty of mink by design , only ever had one stoat in a snare set for squirrels on a log over a stream, had a couple of weasels and a stoat in mole traps

 

In the US, most states require that snares are made of multi stran wire which is why we use snare cable instead of single stran wire. Still it's of intrest to most of us how you do it over there. Pretty great indeed! Here we use 3/64 and 1/16 size cable on minks, squirrels, and animals of that size. A stoat over here is a weasel (or ermine in their winter coat in the northern states...all weasels do not turn white in winter). Most trappers use a #1 longspring (foothold) to trap weasels or posibibly a killer trap such as a 110 conibear. Pretty good that someone could snare a "stoat". Although the Canadians snare Red squirrels which are close to the same size.

[snareman 3]

right boys ive seen the wire boys on here can snare anything from a fox to a mouse

but have any one ever caught a stoat or weasle.

i know its a tall order but can it be done

stoats are usually caught in rat snares if going under a briar or a weed , out in open runs they run far higher , even higher than a squirrel , and a squirrel runs higher than a mink along wooded streams , on saying that i,ve snared two stoats around the body in rabbit snares set at 6 1/2 inches with the big noose set on the middle of a beat , and snared a large dog mink at the same height one morning in a pegged wire , on a rabbit run in a grass field , along with the rabbits , it was clean round the neck , and wasn,t to pleased to see me , i,ve also snared stoats in 4 strand rabbit wires set on fence lines . snareman.

[Guest foxtrack]

right boys ive seen the wire boys on here can snare anything from a fox to a mouse

but have any one ever caught a stoat or weasle.

i know its a tall order but can it be done

stoats are usually caught in rat snares if going under a briar or a weed , out in open runs they run far higher , even higher than a squirrel , and a squirrel runs higher than a mink along wooded streams , on saying that i,ve snared two stoats around the body in rabbit snares set at 6 1/2 inches with the big noose set on the middle of a beat , and snared a large dog mink at the same height one morning in a pegged wire , on a rabbit run in a grass field , along with the rabbits , it was clean round the neck , and wasn,t to pleased to see me , i,ve also snared stoats in 4 strand rabbit wires set on fence lines . snareman.

so snareman would you say that the capture of stoates and weasles

are by chance or would you think you could get them with the aid of bate and lure

[NightRunner 0]

Most guys use rat traps for weasels today, they KO em. Check out this link for all the weasel info ever som of the best written.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weasel Trapping

[DUCKWING 302]

HI NIGHTRUNNER ,

 

SNAREMAN ON HERE HAS BEEN USING THE RAT TRAP FOR A LONG TIME , HE TOLD ME ABOUT BEEFING UP THE KILLING POWER OF THE SPRING BY WEDGING WASHERS UNDER THE SPRING IT REALLY DOES WORK !! , OVER HERE WE TEND TO USE A PERMANENT TUNNEL AT THE BEST SITES .......... SOME KEEPERS WHO THE ITALLION STALLION AND I KNOW IN SCOTLAND USE A FIR POLE OVER GULLEYS ALONG THE MOORLAND ROAD WHERE THEY LOOK AFTER THE GROUSE , THE POLES ARE NOTCHED FOR THE PLATE OF A FENN TO SIT FLAT WITH THE TOP OF THE POLE , THE TUNNEL IS FINE MESH ........... THESE 4 KEEPERS ON THIS MOOR KILL OVER 750 A YEAR WITH THIS METHOD ,

 

THANKS FOR PUTTING THE LINK UP .... I HAD MISSED THAT ONE

 

 

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DUCKWING