Snare colour?

[THE GRIFF 8]

Just bought some shiny new brass rabbit snares, they stand out like a sore thumb, has anyone any tips for dulling the colour down a bit.

[Sjt657 191]

Green spray pain !! Honest lay the snares flat spray both sides works a treat !!

[micky 3,325]

painting them is a silly thing to do , in fact why bother doing anything ?

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

Leave them as they are,no need to spray them

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[THE GRIFF 8]

I thought there might be a way to speed up nature, like speed up the time it takes them to tarnish. They look really bright down the fence line compared to the older ones that are set next to them.

[THE GRIFF 8]

Would just leaving them outside for a week or two be a good idea before setting them up

Edited March 17, 2012 by THE GRIFF

[micky 3,325]

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this was set an hour ago ,its a new snare and the picture has been taken from about 3 feet.

[TWOTWOTHREE 152]

Hi

Just let them colour up in time naturally, even marked wires sometimes turn mr invisible I've trod on a few on pulling in overcast morning,a bunny or fox when travelling with a bit of a tread on will not see it,

Atb

[IanB 0]

Doesn't really matter with peg snares Griff, when set correctly the rabbits should be travelling at speed on the run, so its pointless...

 

Now fence snares, especially now and summer with the longer hours of daylight I would personally leave your snares out to weather, it costs nothing, takes no effort and dulls them down, when rabbits are moving slow through fences they can see a snare at times and avoid them..yes you can catch with shiny new snares, but if weathering them takes no effort and decreases your chances of a refusal, why NOT do it?

[THE GRIFF 8]

Doesn't really matter with peg snares Griff, when set correctly the rabbits should be travelling at speed on the run, so its pointless...

 

Now fence snares, especially now and summer with the longer hours of daylight I would personally leave your snares out to weather, it costs nothing, takes no effort and dulls them down, when rabbits are moving slow through fences they can see a snare at times and avoid them..yes you can catch with shiny new snares, but if weathering them takes no effort and decreases your chances of a refusal, why NOT do it?

We have hopefully just about got the last few rabbits left on the ground I have being using them on, but when it snowed a few weeks ago we could see the footprints going upto the snares on the fence and stopping at the snare and going back down the run and going through another gap in the fence, and this was with weathered snares.

It just goes to show some rabbits have wised up to them. We have now had 49 rabbits off the border of the cematry since boxing day and the last 2 weeks is the first time the flowers on my grans grave have not been eaten within the first 48 hours, they haven't been touched for 2 weeks now so I think we have finally got somewhere.

In the last 12 months we have probably had about 200 using the snares, ferrets, rimmy, and shotgun.

Edited March 17, 2012 by THE GRIFF

[IanB 0]

Doesn't really matter with peg snares Griff, when set correctly the rabbits should be travelling at speed on the run, so its pointless...

 

Now fence snares, especially now and summer with the longer hours of daylight I would personally leave your snares out to weather, it costs nothing, takes no effort and dulls them down, when rabbits are moving slow through fences they can see a snare at times and avoid them..yes you can catch with shiny new snares, but if weathering them takes no effort and decreases your chances of a refusal, why NOT do it?

We have hopefully just about got the last few rabbits left on the ground I have being using them on, but when it snowed a few weeks ago we could see the footprints going upto the snares on the fence and stopping at the snare and going back down the run and going through another gap in the fence, and this was with weathered snares.

It just goes to show some rabbits have wised up to them. We have now had 49 rabbits off the border of the cematry since boxing day and the last 2 weeks is the first time the flowers on my grans grave have not been eaten within the first 48 hours, they haven't been touched for 2 weeks now so I think we have finally got somewhere.

In the last 12 months we have probably had about 200 using the snares, ferrets, rimmy, and shotgun.

 

Good going mate, can you not get the owners to get the fence line rabbit proofed and get some drop boxes fitted.

[Lab 10,979]

Put them in a bucket of Virkon S overnight........

[micky 3,325]

 

 

 

like Ian says ,it costs nothing to weather them so why not ,these were set last night and they are brand new ,five of the seven set caught ,though mrs fox had two and they were all young rabbits ,i don't think weathering would have made any difference

[Rolfe 2]

The secret is to always have some snares weathering whilst still using the old ones When I used to run big snare lines I sometimes had 250 wires out at one time and would get through them at a rate of knots, so I always had freshly weathered snares to replace the unservicable ones as and when required. Just hang a bunch of new wires outside for a couple of weeks they will soon dull down..........to be honest.......at night and on fast killing runs it doesn't make much difference if they are new or weathered........the rabbit should be hitting at speed. Where I think it DOES make a difference is on fence wires where the rabbit has time to see and smell new snares..........often avoiding them completely.

[THE GRIFF 8]

Doesn't really matter with peg snares Griff, when set correctly the rabbits should be travelling at speed on the run, so its pointless...

 

Now fence snares, especially now and summer with the longer hours of daylight I would personally leave your snares out to weather, it costs nothing, takes no effort and dulls them down, when rabbits are moving slow through fences they can see a snare at times and avoid them..yes you can catch with shiny new snares, but if weathering them takes no effort and decreases your chances of a refusal, why NOT do it?

We have hopefully just about got the last few rabbits left on the ground I have being using them on, but when it snowed a few weeks ago we could see the footprints going upto the snares on the fence and stopping at the snare and going back down the run and going through another gap in the fence, and this was with weathered snares.

It just goes to show some rabbits have wised up to them. We have now had 49 rabbits off the border of the cematry since boxing day and the last 2 weeks is the first time the flowers on my grans grave have not been eaten within the first 48 hours, they haven't been touched for 2 weeks now so I think we have finally got somewhere.

In the last 12 months we have probably had about 200 using the snares, ferrets, rimmy, and shotgun.

 

Good going mate, can you not get the owners to get the fence line rabbit proofed and get some drop boxes fitted.

The cematry is council run and they say that some people like to see the rabbits.

I have permission on the surrounding land from the estate but arent supposed to get any rabbits within the cematry ground. This is what has made it difficult over the last 12 months, but I think I have finally cracked it. I even got basc involved at one point as I thought any land owner was obliged by law to control rabbits on there land, it seems it is quite a complicated proccess to prove if rabbit numbers are under control or not and the complaint would have to come from the farmer that owns the field next to it, he wasn't prepared to start the a legal battle with the council.