snaring

[logun 91]

can also be foot snared

[weekend.rifle 44]

i agree that you cant be too quick to judge, as we all clicked on this thread for a reason

 

i have no idea how you would do it, or whether it is time and cost effective, or even fun, but a challenge it most definatly is.

[micky 3,325]

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.

I have just read a book called <GULLAG BOSS> its about how the prisoners survived in the Siberian camps, the snow was very deep and almost covered the bushes ,partridges fed on the buds and the prisoners set horse hair snares among them,this provided enough meat plus some to preserve.

[J Darcy 5,871]

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.

 

I didn't think grouse would feed on wheat.....

[cammy12 176]

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.

 

I didn't think grouse would feed on wheat.....

i bet they would after 3ft of snow for 3months, the grouse and white hairs were on the lower feilds the last time we had snow for while, hunger makes animals do funny things

[micky 3,325]

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.

 

I didn't think grouse would feed on wheat.....

i bet they would after 3ft of snow for 3months, the grouse and white hairs were on the lower feilds the last time we had snow for while, hunger makes animals do funny things

I don't think the stooks would be left out till the snow came, the sheaves would be put into the stack to await the thresher.

[cammy12 176]

whats a stook? i presume full lengths of grain piled up??

[micky 3,325]

the grain came off of the binder in a tied bundle , this was called a sheaf, several sheaves would be stood together. this was called a stook, it died out in the 50s when farms became bigger and more mechanical.

[cammy12 176]

cheers for for response, i wasny around in 50s but if you look back in some game records for the big estates the numbers of grouse are unbeleivable, so it wouldnt suprise me them droping onto grain feilds for a scratch about.