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Survival Trapping - The Pen Set

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I'd almost as much of the native survival school today we're going to do a pen set up with a l'ecole stay tuned alright so I'm going to hear basically put a circle offense with a single door coming in which is where my leg hold is going to be I'm gonna put my bait right in the middle so the critter and circle around so finds the door going to walk right in hopefully right on my trap that's weird it's weird how you know hunters and gatherers nowadays have become the minority like if you can look at the life huh right yeah you know why is that so weird you know will built on that iana me exactly oh dude I mean look at your own tools were only fully replaced like three eight five and ten thousand years ago and they found hand it is a two and a half million years old so at least ninety-five percent of our history if 998 the son of our history has been with stone tools yeah just hunting and gathering nevermind even metal tools oh honey yeah already kind of weapon yeah I mean really but that's people don't look at it like that oh geez how do you do that well well go back every person that ever existed know how to do that go back through your history in your family and somewhere along the line your family is freakin hunted okay who you are yeah alright this is where I'm at this is my pen single door going in I'm going to put my bait right in the middle and I just have sticks all lined up I put a couple on the front staggered just kind of give it more of a thick natural look instead of just a hard line going all the way around so let's the doorway one for my foot hold right there some I work on that right now can you get that we gotta go alright

now you never know there was a trap right there of course they stepped on that's the idea and the dusting that I put over it was extremely light it's just enough to cover it especially on the pan so check that out right there is my trap sitting right there oh right here perfectly flat the surrounding area you can gently see where it is but it's absolutely not substantial it's all about camouflage ok so my trap is right here right the doorway so I'm gonna just try to funnel them in a little more so take a nice a nice straight handle on it try to get them come in right into don't come in the side okay last thing I'm going to do Travis right here put a stick right in front of it kind of low so hopefully the animal pickets foot up and step right into the trap so I have to stick going across right here right in front of the trap so for those step right over it right into my trap I'm just going to use fish get some sardines and mackerel be pretty cool if I can catch a couple fish and just chuck him in here it'll be fun fun to do one there that's good thing about building these pens is that once you build them they exist not going anywhere so I want a straight shot so right around here Becky didn't get in here that's big stinky pile of fish all right there's the chunks of fish right inside the door

and there's my trap there's my little right in front a little bit of fencing as you can see right here and right there trying to get them to go right in the middle right to the bait this is what it looks like so this is the pen all the way around the trap is bed really well looks really natural you never know it was there so there's the pen okay so there's the pen sets real easy basically just make a pen sticks for your bait in the middle make a door put your trap right at the door put a little fencing to try to guide them in it's about it this minute survival school preciate views comments you support in the next one take care

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NativeSurvival

NativeSurvival

Mitch is a Wilderness Living Skills Instructor, he has been featured on The History Channel's program "ALONE" and written articles for Outdoor Magazines; he owns and operates The Native Survival School which provides woodland living and survival classes, as well as offering quality outdoor gear he's designed. Defintely, he is a master at bushcraft's techniques.

You can find all his videos on his YouTube channel.

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