Good tips on alternate wire sources. All I have ever used was the brass colored stuff. I used to get it at hardware stores and fairly cheaply. Rabbits make little runways through the snow that are easily seen as they are fairly packed down. These trails are used often. Find a choke point between two trees or branches that a trail cuts through. Put your wire there. Its nothing fancy really. Just make a tiny loop, tist the wire, then loop the rest of the wire through the tiny loop you made. Now you have a slip knot, or noose type deal. Open up the noose, wire circle, whatever you want to call it to the size that you want. Aprox. 6-7 or so inches wide, whatever you are comfortable with. Thing is, if too wide it wont lock up around the rabbits neck. Anyway, make the choking loop, then snip off your excess wire, leaving enough to position the snare between the branches and tying it to one of the branches in a secure manner. If no tunnel between bushes, make one by chopping branches near you and force funneling the rabbit through your branches, on his regular trail path. You can corral rabbits a little. You can also get rabbits the hang around an area by chopping some newer bush then just tossing it were you want them to be. You will come back and find the snow trammped and rabbit wiz, crap evident. There really isnt much to this. You can set up a ton of snares in no time. Check them every day (morning)as Ravens or other predators will get at them. Snap off a visible branch by your trap or tie a piece of colored string in a bush above and close by the snare. Snaping a bush and pointing it down also adds the benefit of focusing that spot for feeding as the rabbits like the tender bush end chutes and buds. The brass colored snare wire is stiff enough that when you bend it into position, it will stay there by itself. Im sure there are more and better tips from others, but this has worked for me.
