the pole idea would let you prep many of them at night, (or in some "hard to find you" sort of spot), then set them up quickly, at night and service them the next night. I've had much better luck with fishline, and you need a pretty small loop, too. Birds are QUICK, man. If they weren't, cats, dogs, etc, would have them for breakfast. If you can't grab them about flyswatter quick, you'll miss a bunch of them, and they'll get smart about your traps, too. If it's shtf, gathering up a bird or two aint worth the exposure of being seen moving, especially in fairly open country, in daylight. Gill nets, trotlines, turtle traps, crawdad traps and fish traps are a far, far better answer, tho. If it's not shtf, why bother to trap birds, eh? It's quite illegal to do, in almost every state. Mousetraps will catch sparrow sized birds, rattraps will catch up to pigeon sized birds, and normally, they are killed instantly, not flopping around for a minute or more, making a lot of noise and attracting a lot of attention. If a looter found such, he'd almost certainly try to ambush you when you came to service your trap.
Almost anyone can hit you from 100 yds away, with a .22 rifle, and there's 10's of millions of .22 riflles, and you will die of the infection, too. it's really hard to watch 360 degrees, all the time, up to 1/4 mile away, against a guy who's prone and using cover.
Many a man here in the US can hit you at such a range and has the scoped rifle to do it with, too. There's really no reason that you can't cache a lot of trotlines, snares, gill nets, etc, at your BOL, you know.
