African Bird Trap

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afternoon guys Dave Canberra at the Pathfinder school I brought a new trap back with me from Africa that I wanted to show you guys and the thing that intrigued me about it was it was so similar to the trap trigger system that I teach in the Pathfinder school and there's just a couple modifications that they use over there to catch what they call Franklin and guinea fowl Franklin are very similar to like a quail and everybody's pretty familiar with what guinea fowl looks like and one of the cool things that they showed me over there about this I thought was really cool

a lot of times when I use a fork stick you know in the ground for my trigger system if you get soft ground it's very hard to get that trigger system to stay in if you've got a very strong spring because it wants to pull out well they have a lot of soft ground in areas over there in Africa especially where these birds are at because they're constantly digging it up trying to find seeds and nuts and whatnot so what they do is I'm in an area right here in the woods where the ground is pretty soft and what they'll do is they will just take a stick I can find what it's not too dead right here around them and they will first they'll dig a hole in the ground in the soft dirt and they'll dig it down you know just about six or eight inches is about all they'd dig it down you hit a root that's not a big deal you're going to bury it anyway in just a minute then what they do is they find a like a green tree branch of some kind dig this out just a little bit more got a ditch dead digging sticks I'm using here then they'll find a green tree branch of some sort and it can be one like this is the one I'm going to use my spring device so I'll go ahead and turn them it down just a little bit just to get the limbs off of it where I'm going to use it out right here so this is going to be my spring device right above my hole then we'll take another green stick and maybe I can use this one right here that came off of there pretty pretty brutal so I mean that's fine something a little bit better than that we walk back here grab one up another tree that's pretty green

okay so I've got a branch right here this pretty green and pliable that's what I want all I'm going to do with that is it doesn't matter if I've got some tag laying on here I thought that's a little better for me actually because I'm only going to use this part of it right here all I'm going to do that that one broke so that was not quite going to work here we go I wanted to do it dad's I'm just gonna wash out up stick it down this hole and I'm going to bury it in the hole with that loop sticking up like that they bury that down in there pretty good with only that loop sticking up and that basically camouflages this area with debris and it also holds that loop in the ground pretty good then they just set their smear up the same way that I've showed you guys in lots of videos with a small loop on each end one loop smaller than the other and one loop will just be to put it over the tree and the other loop will actually be part of my snare so I make that loop pretty small then I figure out about how much coolidge I'm going to need and I usually cut a little extra heel I can always wrap around my branch take out the slack so this loop here doesn't matter how big it is it's only going to be a slipknot so I'll put that through the loop just like this so I create a slipknot I can put on the limb I'll put it up here on my limb tighten it down and then see what I need here by taking my other loop and fastening it into my snare just like this I want my snare to be you know how about make sure I'll have a stick sticking up out here I'll need want my snare to be about this big probably so I've got some extra here because I'm going to pull this thing down all the way about right here so I'm going to go ahead and wrap some of this around this tree instead of wasting the cordage because I can use the snare over and over again at different locations so I don't want to waste that quarters because this will become a permanent snare in my kit what I want what I'm doing is I want that loot big enough to catch my bird and I want this to pull all the way down to where I want on the trap which is about right here so that's pretty close to being about what I want my trap it a couple more times just to give it some good spring then what I'll do is I'll open that loop up to the size I want it and right above that loop is where I'm going to put my trigger so I'll just kind of marked out with a finger remember works at all right so now what I need to do is I need to find myself a trigger stick here and I'll just find something laying around here it's not too dead hopefully I can use for that something like that right there probably work line and like I said I'll make this loop the size I want it for my trap marked out with my finger come up above it wrap around it twice put a half-inch on one side and a half it's on the other side and I can scoot that so that's a little bit longer on one side than the other which is what I like to do is scoot that whole clove it's nothing just create down just like that and then I've got a trigger system and I can cut that off I want to now what I want to do is I want to test it and you can see it's not going to pull that up out of the ground because I've buried it in there so good all right so now I've got my trigger system on here and it's ready to go now comes the trick of this trap there's a couple more components to this trap that are a little different than the ones that we've generally teaches the pass on your school so the first thing I need to do is find a piece of bait so again with this trigger system now you've got a dog bone trigger and here doesn't have to be this long and like I said instead of coming in from the bottom like we teaching the Pathfinder system with much of our triggers the same t-bone trigger is used but you come in from the top like you would on a Paiute deadfall and you wrap it around and this becomes at that point your trigger but you've got to make sure that you leave this snare loop on the outside and over the top of that horseshoe then when you put your bait on the ground and you get your little triggering device and like I said you can set this to just a dead hare trigger pretty easy you just have to finagle that nut a little bit to get it where you want and then with this loop instead of putting it directly on the ground like I said you lay it over the top of your trigger system right here and stake it out and around it just like this so the animal comes in and bites the nut and tries to get it out he gets caught in the trap and that's what you want then your animals car so anyway I'm Dave Canterbury at the Pathfinder school I thought I'd show you this African bird trap which could be used very easily for small game anywhere in the United States as well uses the same dog bone trigger system that we teach in a Pathfinder system and it's just another tool or trap that you can add to your toolbox for willing to suffer lions I appreciate your support and thank you for joining me for another video

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