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On Wednesday, I got together with my buddy Phil to play in the woods. I always like to have a particular focus when we get together because it doesn't happen very often and it's good to get something accomplished. Wednesday's focus was heritage traps and scenery
and to finally play with my BK-9. I had to find out what the hoopla was all about.
By heritage traps I mean traps and snares that were used by early peoples. In yesterday's case, it was a trap from the Ord Shelter. (seen here - trap 'a') dated at nearly 2000 years old, also a trap that we had played with before - the Miwok Spring Snare.
When we set this trap up earlier somehow we had missed an important point and that was that the trigger stick was tied to the cord. We did not have success setting it up previously, so we thought this additional information would help. Now, in the previous post, baldtacoII had suggested an improvement to the trap that would work very well, but we like to replicate the original trap so we wanted another kick at the can.
The other trap that I had wanted to revisit was my take on the nail trap trigger. I originally saw this in Ron Hood's video, Traps and Trapping (highly recommended). I have played with this trigger quite a bit and really came to appreciate its versatility and effectiveness. I did a thread about it before in W&SS but for some reason, people had trouble with it, so we wanted to get it on video.
Recently, we have had some really strange weather, but Wednesday was a treat- 14 degrees Celsius ( 57 degrees F) and sunny. There's a beautiful little creek that runs through this area and because of the fairly rapid change in elevation, there are quite a few falls, rapids, etc.
So we finally found a nice, flat spot with an overhanging branch and set up. First off, we revisited the Miwok trap. The trap as it appeared in Survival Skills of Native California (ignore the 2 small drawings at the top):
Well we tied the stick on and tried it -
not really an improvement - it kept wanting to pull the cord of the corner sticks, so we tried the trigger stick through the cord loop and it worked fine. Phil also decided that he preferred the Wishbone style bait stick
So, we left it at that. If anybody has had any experience with this trap, I'd love to hear about it.
On to the Scissors snare. As it appears in the Ord document:
We tried to set up the Scissors snare as per the original diagram
- once again it sucked. It could be our shortcoming, of course. I would be interested to hear comments from people who have made it work as shown. Everytime we set it up it twisted upon lift off, pushing Justin (the rat, Pierre's son) off to the side, which you may be able to see in the following video:
[video=youtube;MPjKDQu4aA0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPjKDQu4aA0&feature=youtu.be[/video]
(to be continued)
On Wednesday, I got together with my buddy Phil to play in the woods. I always like to have a particular focus when we get together because it doesn't happen very often and it's good to get something accomplished. Wednesday's focus was heritage traps and scenery
and to finally play with my BK-9. I had to find out what the hoopla was all about.By heritage traps I mean traps and snares that were used by early peoples. In yesterday's case, it was a trap from the Ord Shelter. (seen here - trap 'a') dated at nearly 2000 years old, also a trap that we had played with before - the Miwok Spring Snare.
When we set this trap up earlier somehow we had missed an important point and that was that the trigger stick was tied to the cord. We did not have success setting it up previously, so we thought this additional information would help. Now, in the previous post, baldtacoII had suggested an improvement to the trap that would work very well, but we like to replicate the original trap so we wanted another kick at the can.
The other trap that I had wanted to revisit was my take on the nail trap trigger. I originally saw this in Ron Hood's video, Traps and Trapping (highly recommended). I have played with this trigger quite a bit and really came to appreciate its versatility and effectiveness. I did a thread about it before in W&SS but for some reason, people had trouble with it, so we wanted to get it on video.
Recently, we have had some really strange weather, but Wednesday was a treat- 14 degrees Celsius ( 57 degrees F) and sunny. There's a beautiful little creek that runs through this area and because of the fairly rapid change in elevation, there are quite a few falls, rapids, etc.
So we finally found a nice, flat spot with an overhanging branch and set up. First off, we revisited the Miwok trap. The trap as it appeared in Survival Skills of Native California (ignore the 2 small drawings at the top):
Well we tied the stick on and tried it -
not really an improvement - it kept wanting to pull the cord of the corner sticks, so we tried the trigger stick through the cord loop and it worked fine. Phil also decided that he preferred the Wishbone style bait stick
So, we left it at that. If anybody has had any experience with this trap, I'd love to hear about it.
On to the Scissors snare. As it appears in the Ord document:
We tried to set up the Scissors snare as per the original diagram
- once again it sucked. It could be our shortcoming, of course. I would be interested to hear comments from people who have made it work as shown. Everytime we set it up it twisted upon lift off, pushing Justin (the rat, Pierre's son) off to the side, which you may be able to see in the following video:
[video=youtube;MPjKDQu4aA0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPjKDQu4aA0&feature=youtu.be[/video]
(to be continued)
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Funny, though, how the combinations always seems to work for him 
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