to catch a paintballer, my best figure four so far

hwpaintballer

hwpaintballer

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Not many people know this but paintballers main source of food is fudge rounds, so I decided to try and catch me one (after all I am Hunts the Woodland paintballer)using a figure four, I was going to sit it up in their natural habitats out on the field, but around this time most of them are still hibernating, and after seeing a few sightings of them around the internet I figured that would be the best place to start. So I set one up next to my computer using a 17lb computer chair resting on the figure 4 with some bait on it, I'll let the pic do the talking.

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I give the trap an "A",
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(true story: I got bored, been stuck in the house for a few days so I decided to practice some bushcraft skills. I took a short hike, maybe a mile, up into the woods until I came across a tree that had fell, so I cut off a branch that was about an inch and a half in diameter into about a 5-6 foot stick, then I back tracked (:D which back tracking in the snow is like cheating it's so easy). Went home and proceeded to make a figure four, tested it out and after a little modding here and there it held up a 17lb chair, so I went and got me a fudge round for bait, I put it on carefully so it wouldn't set off the trap, as soon as I touched the fudge round though it did just as it was supposed to and all the weight collapsed on my arm/hand. And no hwpaintballer doesn't actually stand for Hunts the Woodland Paintballer ;) )
 
yes real names,my name is not exidor.my mom called me(hey prick!) for alot of years but thats not it either it's Dan.

anyone els?
 
Wicked funny thread HW.... I always wondered how to catch a paintballer without shooting him/her first :D
 
Nice figure 4! I liked the way that you set it up to catch yourself. I know how it feels to be trapped in the house and becoming stir crazy.
 
Funny to see that im not the only one making traps at home to pass the time. Only difference is that your figure-fours seem to work, while mine dosent. Either its so solid its locked into place so that an elephant couldnt trip it or its so wobbly and slipping that i cant get it to support anything. Cant seem to figure out what the secret is to make it work. Any tips?
 
kmm said:
Funny to see that im not the only one making traps at home to pass the time. Only difference is that your figure-fours seem to work, while mine dosent. Either its so solid its locked into place so that an elephant couldnt trip it or its so wobbly and slipping that i cant get it to support anything. Cant seem to figure out what the secret is to make it work. Any tips?
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If it's too solid then your notches are probably to deep, if it's too flimsy then a stick's probably trying to work it's way out of the notch and it's not deep enough, or it's hitting it at a funny angle. It took me a few hours to put the trap up, that's counting the short hike and and all the small work with multiple breaks to go play around on the web. When I finally finished I set it up and amazingly it worked about the first try, so I went to find my sister to see if she would lend me her camera she said sure. We both went into the room and she ended up bumping the chair and it fell apart, then it took me another 30 minutes of fine tunning for it to work again.


Good looking figure 4 bhamilton :thumbup:
 
On the second trap. If you make the arms of the 4 a little longer and put the 4 out from under the weight you don't run the risk of the vertical stick catching your weight as it comes down. This can happen more easily in softer ground where the vertical may have gotten pushed in some and then doesn't fall out of the way when the trap is sprung.

If you have to place it under the weight make sure to put in on something solid like a rock and place it at a bit of an angle.

Could just be the angle of the camera though.
 
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