Reverse Figure 4 Dead fall Trigger

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school what we're gonna do this morning is we're going to talk about the reverse figure-four deadfall trigger and the reverse figure four deadfall trigger is a very good triggering device to use if you are micro trapping and I'm talking about mice rats Chipmunks things like that are going to set this trap off very easily it is a pushdown type device just like the figure-four depending on how you set it up but it's a very very sensitive trigger system sometimes it's a little touchy to set up and take some getting used to but I'm going to show you the tips and tricks to make it easy today stay with okay this is a properly set reverse figure 4 deadfall you had the bait stick more than half way back in the back of the trap you have a 30 degree angle or there abouts on the deadfall itself again that's the biggest mistake I see with people making deadfalls is the angle is way too high giving the animal the opportunity to escape before the deadfall comes down small animals like rodents and ground squirrels are very very fast you have to have the least margin for error possible now the way this trap works is it's an interlocking device with a slide lever here that the trap slides down on kicking everything out of the trap except for the bait stick and you have a notch here holding the bait stick and around here that goes against the pole here and I always leave that round as well I don't flatten that out and then you have a notch here that creates your levering device okay so the animal comes in and all you have to do is touch the end of this bait stick and the traps coming down it doesn't take much force you can see trap components are outside the trap except the bait stick just like the Paiute deadfall in the figure four all right let's talk about trap components three sticks just like the figure four just a little bit of reverse order on this thing and a little different action of the mechanics what you're going to do is you're going to take your upright or your post stick and you're going to just make a point on the end of it just wedge both sides I usually dress the bottom of it you don't have

you know from the sideways those pieces won't go around so much okay so we put that in the ground then we have a stick here that has a couple notches in it it has a seven notch here with ton of a flattened area here at the top and it has a seven notch on the reverse side here just like an l7 trigger so this would be an l7 trigger from there down okay same concept this rests on top of this post and becomes a pivot because our deadfall rests right on the edge here

which pushes everything out of the way when the trap goes off our base stick goes against our pole here and you have one log cabin notch in that and then a point and this comes down and rests right here just like this pushing friction against this pole and so you have weight leaning down on top of this which is pushing this into this and this into your support pole as soon as this is dislodged the trap goes off because this will slide down letting the weight come down push everything out of the way okay so when we set this trap up we're going to take our support pole and we're going to put our pivot stick here just like this and we're going to put our deadfall device right here and we want that pole to be on the outside of our dead falling device this support pole should always be on the outside and you should be right at the edge of that pivot then you just take your stick and put it in the notch here drop it against this pole just like this and let go it's a very simple trap to set again when the trap goes off these two pieces are kicked outside the trap