snaring

[Liam Strover 0]

Anyone know how to make pigeon snares

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

You for real

[the durham digger 127]

Iv heard it all now....... can you put me in touch with your drug dealer??

[si8433176 6]

Lol, you just need to make a noise like a piece of corn and lasso it when it comes in.

[Danny7299 0]

Too many eggnogs ?....

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

eggnog now theres a blast from my child hood loved that stuff

[micky 3,325]

I should think any thing with a neck can be snared its just knowing how to go about it, I have seen on various tv nature films deer ,gorillas,tigers and many other creatures caught,on u tube you can even see crabs caught in a snare. My grand father was a gamekeeper and told me that pheasants and partridges were often caught in horse hair nooses ,there is a very old film of the Scottish Islands that shows how the people survived by taking gull eggs off of the cliff faces and snaring puffins. So the lads question is not as daft as it sounds ,pidgeons can be snared ,but I for one would not know how to go about it.

[IanB 0]

I should think any thing with a neck can be snared its just knowing how to go about it, I have seen on various tv nature films deer ,gorillas,tigers and many other creatures caught,on u tube you can even see crabs caught in a snare. My grand father was a gamekeeper and told me that pheasants and partridges were often caught in horse hair nooses ,there is a very old film of the Scottish Islands that shows how the people survived by taking gull eggs off of the cliff faces and snaring puffins. So the lads question is not as daft as it sounds ,pidgeons can be snared ,but I for one would not know how to go about it.

 

You could snare ferals using wheat, and a snare line setup..

[stealthy1 3,964]

Anyone know how to make pigeon snares

 

 

I know how to make wire snares

[blackntan 1]

I agree with Mickey, don't be too quick to ridicule someone's idea, I don't believe there's many creatures on this planet that can't be snared. It would need a bit of thought and ingenuity in some cases but I reckon could be done!

Intrestingly during and just after the second war thousands of grouse were snared when they came down to visit corn stooks in the fields that bordered grouse moors especaialy in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire. In those days it was a way in which some tenant farmers and crofters paid the annual rent or the local poacher could make a bob or two.

[j j m 6,533]

Is it not easier to shoot them

[The one 8,457]

Aye there easier ways to get them

[foxing machine 144]

[blackntan 1]

They had to be snared, shooting wasn't an option, one shot would have alerted the keepers and would have chased the birds back onto the moor and had the farmer or crofter been caught they'd have lost their tenancy and their livelihood.

They were snared in the years when there were huge numbers, my old boy told me that by late afternoon mid September the stooks would be black with them and a bag of fifty or sixty could be taken, lifted under the cover of darkness.

Just another example of the efficiency of the snare!

Cheers.

[blackntan 1]

I forgot to mention, the snares were set on the actual corn stooks not on the ground and as the grouse fed on the ears of grain the head would go into a noose.