I miss snaring......old pics of laying and catching a few rabbits.

[Johnathon 15]

I loved snaring rabbits but moved to a new area and never got back into it. Heres a few pics of me filling the pot.

 

[3175darren 1,102]

Do your best get back into it,try try try someone somwhere will want some rabbits clearing

[revij22 113]

not had much success myself any tips

[tegater 789]

I still can't get used to wiring rabbits on fencelines. I was always brought up to wire them on open runs. I'm not saying its wrong, but there must be more chance of belly catching them on a fence, than in the open.

 

I still catch loads in the open with the wire, and who knows, I may catch more on the fence. It just doesn't have the same appeal, to me.

[Johnathon 15]

I didnt have much choice on this land. It was an inner city plot and the public had access to it so I could only set at last light and collect in the morning. Even then I couldnt set out in the open becuase I might catch someones dog instead.

 

I never really had a problem with belly catches, maybe the odd one or two but never a string of them.

 

The best hints or tips I could possibly give is to BUY woodga's snaring DVD. Thats what I learnt from, and then its just practice frm there on in.

Edited November 29, 2011 by Johnathon

[tegater 789]

I didnt have much choice on this land. It was an inner city plot and the public had access to it so I could only set at last light and collect in the morning. Even then I couldnt set out in the open becuase I might catch someones dog instead.

 

I never really had a problem with belly catches, maybe the odd one or two but never a string of them.

 

The best hints or tips I could possibly give is to BUY woodga's snaring DVD. Thats what I learnt from, and then its just practice frm there on in.

Yep fair play mate. As I said I am not saying its wrong, and with foxes, I sometimes have to do the same where I live, as the fencelines are the only wiring points.

When I was younger though as a kid, in Shropshire, we had plenty of open field runs where the wire was lethal, and to the extent of catching 3 bunnies a day, in the same wire, if you could check them enough.

 

Its good seeing how others do it though. Thanks.

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

I ve seen that first pic before didnt you used to be called rabbiter or something like that?

[peeps_76 17]

i used to love fence snaring bunnies!

 

we cant do that up here now. havent set a pegged wire all year as only a few of my wires have deer stops fitted and havent got round to doing the rest. must do it so i can get back to setting wires!

 

2010 snaring orde has really changed things for us!

 

regards Peeps

[patnay 0]

great post and good pictures, well done, i am just starting out, hope i can do half as good.happy new year to you.

[B.P.R 2,798]

I used to snare when I done the

Gamekeeping. Enjoyed it but badgers caught in fox snares around the pens was a nightmare. Had to pin them with a fence post and cut the wire.

 

Never had much success at the rabbits. I had better luck with foxes. I got taught to build a tunnel out of wood and leave it on a run for a week or so with sand on the floor. Keep checking the sand for footprints and then set the snare. Worked well but not the best.

 

I got shown a few ways, to set them on runs where the rabbit 'jumps' to clear small obstacles such as fallen branches or stones.

 

Also to put out hay bales with something in it (can't remember exactly what it was, maybe barley?) and set it up on some sticks off the ground 6inches or so. Set the snares on the tyre tracks in the field with the bales on the same track. Apparently the rabbits keep to the dry tracks in the wet......

 

I used to give the head gamekeeper a hand at setting and I was the poor fecker up at 6am checking them all. The ones he set were a

Success but I done some and they

Weren't too productive......

 

Fox snares nearly always on fences, around pheasant pens or live traps. I

Only know the ways I was taught by 1 person and not everybody uses the same methods.

 

I have a load of snares in the shed, I'd

Love to try it again but I've heard there's a lot of new laws out that are restricting it. Not done it for a while but I'm guessing the

Snares i have which are 4 years old will be illegal?