Primitive Trapping - Zero Degree Twitch Snare

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are you doing today this is Mitchell donated survival school today I'm going to go over the zero degree which trap stay tuned

you

stop I'm going to use this demonstration is dead in half alive at the same time so what I'm going to do is just cut off some of the live branches not too many of them

took off one now help it have less drag so has good power so far for this trap I have a why stick sharpen ends have a straight stick shop an end with a little piece of a twig stuck on you know drive my why stick in the ground all right it's in there now my bait stick the three-piece trap and then work on what size I want somewhere in this direction dropped a little point one in the other end I'm going to just car flat so there's my why stick a bait stick it's going to be pinned underneath that so I'm going to get that spacing just right somewhere around here I thinks a little longer bigger than needs to be so I can trim off and fix anything I need to fix now to make this easier to see I'm going to remove all these leaves I wouldn't normally do that I want to be as camouflage as possible this is just for demonstration purposes all we need now is a snare it's going to create a toggle firstly I'm going to do is tie two half hitches

Misato

that's all set this is the engine this trap it's a twitch trap because when it goes off like a twitch done now I need to tie this to my toggle and leave some extra room to build my snare it's better to give yourself more quarters anything

just I'm a small bowl line at the end of the quarters

I'm just going to feed the cottage through

and the not itself through its own loop there we go there's my snail so I've done so far Stud two half hitches to my engine at the end of my rope tied my snare my trap is right underneath now we need to tie the toggle in and set it up I'm going to measure about where I want my toggle now I'm going to just tie it at that location tying a constrict or not doesn't slide

it's good for toggles that's what it looks like close up I'm going to show you something that happens sometimes sometimes your engine is too powerful for your why stick see that pulls it out it's a very strong engine amusing so I just have to get a larger more stout or why stick no big deal

okay now that I've beefed up my y stick it does hold so that's good so it wants to flip out right here just trying to find its way out like that should fit something like this oops you want to be careful is going off my face

I don't want this to be very solid I want it to barely be able to hold itself okay

sighs have to put my snare on the bait stick

this is what I have I my post right here a little twig update stick go into my toggle which is tied to my engine also tied there is my snare as you can see so that's where I put my bait obviously I want the target animal to push this down to set off the trap that's how it works because when this moves out of the way

that toggle comes flying out with the snare attached the engine blipping it up catching your prey all right I'm way off to the side so I got a toggle on the eye or anything like that I'm gonna Majan then I'm right here eating away boom snare

so because this trap ones in line the bait stick runs in line with the cordage I had to call this a zero Degree twitch trap other angles can be used if you went this way would be a ninety degree to which trap because it the bait stick turns 90 degrees from the angle over the cordage so I want to take this time to thank Steve Davis for developing these traps and showing them to me so what I like about this foot strap it doesn't take a lot to build just in a couple pieces it's pretty simple to build it's basically just cordage tied to an engine with a toggle on it with a V a post stopping it and the bait stick pinning it that's it now it's also a good trap to use for multiple animals you can spear nuts things like that tons of different things berries you can go out to sow different animals with this it's insane

you go up to small things like squirrels or a little larger say like rabbit or Coon opossum anything like that depends on what you put on there same trap can be used for any range of animals depending on what size you make it I could have got a squirrel with that as well

no problem now my engine would have held the animal up off of its feet that's also important

this is my snare right here it doesn't reach the ground this that's fantastic because then that means that they can't leverage anything they're hanging that's what you want because once they can start using their legs and they can stand up then they can start chewing they can start maneuvering getting out they can start backing out things like that but they're hanging but it's going to you know panic obviously the cordage can be made with natural cordage doesn't have to be Bank wine like I used here you can use whatever cordage you want to make or use it can be babish hide cordage it could be seen you cordage it could be route cordage it could be bark cordage leaf cordage whatever you can dream up this image with the native survival school appreciate your time see you the next one take care