Asian Trail Spring Trap

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to go over a couple things with you guys today and show you a couple traps I learned in Asia one of them was a trap these on game trails that's a killing type trap and it's not a dead ball a little bit of a different trigger system then won't even show to the past it's kind of a reverse figure four and as they snap down tied killing trap so I've got just a couple pieces of cut here already I cut a live stab one of each and a couple more pieces and I've got my trigger system we're going to go through those will show you the trigger system up close in a few minutes or set this trap up as if this were a trail going through or animals would walk so stay with me we'll be right back okay so I took that stop I'm going to shove it underneath the log it's good if you've got a heavy thing on the trail that you keep sticking under because what you want is you want this to become a slap spring okay and you can pin it down if you've got hard enough around you can pin it down in a couple different places you can see how soft this ground is that you could put it down bury it on one end underneath the ground and pin it down to areas like this and that'll hold it down too as long as your grounds not so soft that it pulls out like that so that's why I use the log on this one and what happens is the presence of this trap is that you put it on a trail where a game is going to come across the trail and you can use this for a lot of things in Asia they use this a lot for monitor lizards and snakes and things like that the trigger system I'm going to show you how close here real quick okay so we've got our log our sapling jammed up under our log here to make our spring I've got a flat piece of bark laying here underneath for my trigger mechanism to sit on the target area is going to be right in here for this trap so this work we're gonna bait it I'm gonna give you a close-up now for this trigger system show you how it works okay so what you've got here is you've got a reverse figure four trigger that basically has got a cutout on one side it sits on top of your support stick your deadfall or your spring sits on top of here in this shelf then you have a trigger which gets compressed against like this hold your trap up and when that trigger gets tripped or pushed down it releases this I'll show you how to set that right now so you put your trigger mechanism together like this and slide it underneath your trap you got to kind of finagle it and hold it with your hands because if your traps gonna be strong enough to kill anything it's got to be pretty heavy-duty

okay so now our trap would be set we need to make sure that our trigger mechanism is right underneath our trap so you might have to adjust things just a little bit to get that to happen because you want that trigger mechanism straight underneath that log so he's basically got to put his head underneath there to eat all right now you've got a level playing field there a level playing underneath and the animal comes in feed smash he's dead there's plenty of force there to kill a good sized squirrel or anything else that would come across that trap and that is a reverse figure four killing type trap that they use in Asia or small

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