Snare wire for psk

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puukko

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Still working on the psk. Many others reference stainless 18 ga. (or other sizes) snare wire? Does anybody know of a good source? Is this just regular wire or do you need to go through a trapping supply company? Any help is appreciated!
 
18 is good for big critters

but I use 28 for small game, you can buy it at any local hardware store.

about 3 bucks for a 100 feet
 
small guitar or banjo strings will work- get teh straight wire, not the 'wound' stuff. At a pinch i've tried ripping apart electrical wire (copper). It has worked okay but not great. Fishing line is great, but you need to prop it up with a couple of twigs or make the loops very small; that will catch bird feet, but won't strangle them, so in the name of decensy check your traps every hour or so by using binoculars.
 
Go to a marine store and get ss leader wire. You can pick the size you want. Above suggestions are good.
 
I like using 22gauge stainless wire.
 
I found a roll of inconel lockwire at a navy surplus yard inside the local garbage dump. Inconel will not rust and stands up to twisting very well(since it's lockwire) The roll is so large that I sometimes can't find the loose end when I want to cut off a piece. I also picked up some 7 strand stainless steel deep water fishing line. Then there is the .024" music wire which is kind of stiff but once you have it formed it stays that way.

Ciao
Ron Cassel
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Inconel will not rust


I wouldn't have singled this out except for the fact that yesterday at work I had wrapped some work stuff with Inconel wire at work and put it in the sonic cleaner in a beaker of bleach and a half hour later it was rust city, so maybe it won't rust except in the presence of bleach.
 
KILLAFORNIA,
It sounds like using it in the cleaning medea with bleach is causing a kind of inconel oxide which is kind of like rust but is more the results of chemical reaction.
I doubt that the same solutions you are using will be found out in the bonnies where the wire is intended to be used as snare wire. I have a set of wind chimes that I made from old condenser tubes which was inconel and they have been hanging outside for several years and have not developed any "rust" at all.

FWIW
Ciao
Ron Cassel
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inconel is a nickel alloy, so its possible that the bleach (sodium hypochlorite, a strong oxidiser) reacted with the nickel to form nickel oxide.
 
Bleach is nasty stuff on certain metals. Get some old spoons, make a mix of bleach and water and dunk them in so that one touches the other. Leave it for a couple of hours and when you come back it will have burned a black etch into the stainless steel.
 
Hi Folks,

I have been experimenting with the wire they use for making bead necklaces, it has a breaking strain of about 10+ Kg or 22Lbs, it is quite fine and plastic coated, being so fine it will hardly be noticed by small prey.

I got the idea from a guy who posts on my forum who had been making them for some time but using fishing wire instead, on field trials his had a better count than the traditional brass wire snares that are normally used. The benefit of these is that they are very light weight and more compact, therefore you can carry a lot more of them in your PSK. For more details on UK PSKs try going to www.ludlowsurvivors.com or the forum at www.ludlowsurvivors.co.uk.

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We were talking about snares and snare wire at work the other day; I had mentioned that I had used fine gauge stainless wire and one of my friends mentioned that he had tried it but that animals could see or smell it as their tracks often lead around the snares. He mentioned that he had had the best resuslts using monofiliment fishing line. Aparently the critters could't see it because when he switched from SS to mono he improved the catch and the tracks stopped going around the snare.
You do have to tie special knots in monofiliment to keep it from cutting itself (anyone who has used it for fishing knows this).
I plan on giving this a try this summer.
Enjoy!
 
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