setting snares

[micky 3,325]

This field near me will be alive with rabbits in the next few weeks,the problem is they are very hard to catch,the ground is sandy and full of stones,they never make runs what you can see till the wheat is a foot high then you can snare ,or trap them in bgs, the trouble with that is by the time its grown that high ,the rabbits have had the first twenty yards,iwas at a loss what to do last year so i asked G.W.this year its a late crop but like all boy scouts.

cheers Glen.

[micky 3,325]

This field near me will be alive with rabbits in the next few weeks,the problem is they are very hard to catch,the ground is sandy and full of stones,they never make runs what you can see till the wheat is a foot high then you can snare ,or trap them in bgs, the trouble with that is by the time its grown that high ,the rabbits have had the first twenty yards,iwas at a loss what to do last year so i asked G.W.this year its a late crop but like all boy scouts.

cheers Glen.

[Holdaway 2]

A good piece of advice that from snareman.

 

Chalkwarren told me a very similar thing also.

 

H

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Been using this method for several years,...and as my auld Sensei would say,...it's LETHAL...

 

All the best,.CHALKWARREN...

 

 

 

 

[badgeroy 3]

A good piece of advice that from snareman.

 

Chalkwarren told me a very similar thing also.

 

H

 

What were the secrets then?

[micky 3,325]

A good piece of advice that from snareman.

 

Chalkwarren told me a very similar thing also.

 

H

 

What were the secrets then?

The answers in the soil . i grew up with that, who said it ?

[Holdaway 2]

Kenneth Williams played a gardener called Arthur Fallowfield in the BBC radio comedy series Beyond Our Ken. His reply to any question was (in West Country accent) "The answer lies in the soil".

 

Is that it?

 

H

[micky 3,325]

Kenneth Williams played a gardener called Arthur Fallowfield in the BBC radio comedy series Beyond Our Ken. His reply to any question was (in West Country accent) "The answer lies in the soil".

 

Is that it?

 

H

i think your right mate , i was thinking Percy Thrower.

[micky 3,325]

This field near me will be alive with rabbits in the next few weeks,the problem is they are very hard to catch,the ground is sandy and full of stones,they never make runs what you can see till the wheat is a foot high then you can snare ,or trap them in bgs, the trouble with that is by the time its grown that high ,the rabbits have had the first twenty yards,iwas at a loss what to do last year so i asked G.W.this year its a late crop but like all boy scouts.

cheers Glen.

just to add, this land has been roughly hoed as the seedlings are breaking through,woodga has pointed out that there will be better results if the runs are smoother ,this will be done after the next rainfall when the land is more friable

[pegandgun 52]

Why did you not just snare the rabbits along the grass verge instead of all that work scrapping those runs into the soil....P&G

[Rolfe 2]

Why did you not just snare the rabbits along the grass verge instead of all that work scrapping those runs into the soil....P&G

My thoughts exactly the same as that P&G..........! Often i will position wires just before they emerge onto open fields and these "Headland" settings can prove very productive at times. A favourite location is where rabbits have to cross a dyke before emerging out on to the feeding ground.

[micky 3,325]

Why did you not just snare the rabbits along the grass verge instead of all that work scrapping those runs into the soil....P&G

I dont seem to be able to catch them any where else but out in the field. What looks like a verge is a deep ditch,in a week or two it will be a mass of nettles and brambles i knock a few over with bgs, but snares set out in the field seem to work best for me

[snareman 3]

Why did you not just snare the rabbits along the grass verge instead of all that work scrapping those runs into the soil....P&G

what do you mean all the work, there are times when the edge feature is so over grown with nettles and brambles , that you can,t set any wires , they are not always as easy as the edge that is shown in the pictures i have snared as many as 200 along easy edges as shown . so do you think that i would make runs or tell anyone else to make them , if the edge feature was void of cover , not on your life as i for one avoid unnecessary work thats not needed everytime, ive snared well over a hundred rabbits on one field that was eaten out 50 yds 300yds long , it was just eaten down to the dirt no visible runs whatsoever , nothing but pebbles and rabbit droppings , with a heavy overgrown edge like a jungle, the farm manager was demented , so i made the runs 8 ft long only , every few yds which was done in jig time , and nothing hard about it , the next morning there were sh#t along quite a lot of them, after four nights it was along them all . hoop snares set job done .

[peeps_76 17]

Hi guys. i have never heard of this before and it looks interesting.

what do you use to make the scrapes/runs with and how damaging to the sown seeds is this?

 

thanks and regards

[pegandgun 52]

I could take the rabbits along that edge no problem snareman and thats the only edge a i can see on that picture so thats the one ime refuring to.And i know that the scraping of runs into the soil works as ive done it.Ill be up to see you Glenn after this court case so havce your fists up as you are going to get the beating of your life you old b*****d