PVC Bait stick Trap

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okay in this video I'm going to show how to make a very simple homemade trap that you can make several of very cheap and carry with you and you can load them with bait ahead of time or in the field and they work very good for small game and what I have here is I have a piece of 3/4 inch PVC that's 5 foot long a dollar less than a dollar 93 cents I believe this was have Menards I have an oak dowel rod that's about three foot long it was a dollar 33 a box of 16 penny common nails a couple bucks a wire coat hanger ten for a dollar now I'm going to set this video up to show you how to manufacture and use this trap I'm going to show you how I do that right now

okay so I've taken my multi-tool I've cut a piece of PVC about six inches long now I've got to drill a series of holes in here and since I don't have a drill with me but I do have an awl on my multi-tool I can use the awl for that the first holes that I want to cut in this aren't one end of this PVC preferably my smoothest or my non-smooth end if I have one and I want to drill these holes basically perpendicular to each other

in other words I want them to be straight across from each other is the word that I'm looking for there so I'll turn this over and drill another hole directly above that one just like this eyeball that on the other side to make sure it's pretty even this would go a lot faster if you use the drill I'm just showing you how to do it the hard way in case you don't have a drill okay and we can read that out pretty good and there we go

we have a hole directly through that I'll show you what that's going to be used for in just a minute okay so we've got several holes drilled in a circular fashion around this tube now in a real situation if this wasn't just a demonstration I'd want to punch those holes all the way through so that I had a multitude of holes going in basically an X pattern around the outside of this and that is to release the scent of the bait basically this is going to be our bait stick we're going to fill this with bait whether it's some kind of a squeeze tube bait or whether we just jam peanut butter down inside of it but whatever it is we're going to fill this tube up so that the animal can't get it out he has to work at the tube because he can smell it

but he can't really get at it he could lick it a little bit but he can't get at it so he's going to work at this bait stick to make this trap go off the next thing that we need for this trap is we need a steak and for that we're going to use this coat hanger and we can get a couple different steaks out of each one of these coat hangers so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to cut this thing off about here and pretty much even on this side and that gives us basically a fork and we can even now for a couple of but I've been in this thing by two so we get a good clean square in this Bend just like this that's what we're going to want okay once we have that we need just basically another piece and we can use a nail for that and that's why I got the nails instead of this was to use one nail we could use a piece of that coat hanger and it would work to put this nail because it has a head on it it's going to work out real well for what I want to use it for so we'll just open this box and nails here you get one out and that's going to be another piece of our trap so we have three pieces now we have our bait stick we have our fork and we have our stake for the other side of our bait stick now we need a trigger system that's one I got the dowel rod for so I'm just going to take my multi-tool saw out here and I'm going to cut a trigger that's about Oh two inches long or thereabouts cut that off into this down so this doubt will make you know ten or fifteen triggers anyway now this piece of dial you should be able to get a lot of traps out of this for the three or four bucks that you're going to spend on the components now that I've got a trigger I'm going to take that trigger and turn it into the toggle by just putting a groove in it and I'm actually going to offset that groove on one side so it's not exactly in the center of my talk I wanted a little bit off center and I'll show you how that works in a little bit I'm just going to saw into it a little bit all the way around just to give myself that toggle okay so the next thing we want to do is we want to take a piece of our bank line and we want to tie a loop in that bank line that's going to be our noose and that loop doesn't need to be a whole lot bigger in diameter really then our bank line is we want to slide through it but we don't want it to be real real loose so we're going to tie a pretty tight knot in that back line and you can see that loops not real big okay then we're going to take our Bank line we're going to cut about oh six foot piece of it or a little more we'll get our multi-tool knife we'll cut that off real quick

okay now we'll just feed this back through our loop to give us our snare loop on the one side so now we have a snare loop on one end of this just like this okay that operates pretty good and this Bank lines tarde so it slides pretty good now once we decide to size a loop that we want and we can pretty much judge that by the size of our bass stick we can look at that see how they want that loop once we not big with the loop then we just take our toggle and we tie it in right above our loop and basically what I do with that is I'll put that I'll tie it once through the notch and then I'll half hitch on both sides of the knotch and tighten that up as tight as I can get then I'll have fish the other side as well and tighten it down as tight as I can get it so that I have a half hitch on both sides of my trigger just like that and easily what I'll do is I'll just take and tie an overhand right there between those half hitches and tighten that down as tight as I can get it so if that trigger is not going to slip out of there and now I have a trap and I can fold up and take with me okay so now I found an area with a nice springy branch right here I've trained most of stuff I don't need off of it I've got my track components and I'm ready to set my trap so the first thing I need to do is set my components aside for a minute and basically tie off to this tree the way I want to do that is I want to figure out how low I want this spring device to come down and where it's going to come down at on the trail and that's going to dictate to me where I'm going to tie this off and that looks just about right to me so I'll tie off to that real quick and all I'm going to do is wrap this cords around it I want to cut any of it off because I want to take it with me when I'm done okay once I know where this spring device is going to be and I've picked out my trail I take my stake and I shove it in the ground I'm have to dig out a trap bed right here in the snow that's okay I want to get this thing down exactly where I need it and get my fork in there so it's not going to pull out so the deeper I get it in there the better off I'm going to be okay okay now that we have our fork in the ground all we need to do is measure again remember this is our bait stick so we're going to measure how far we want this and just tack it into the ground just like this and we'll swing it out of the way okay so once you've got your snare tied to your tree and you have figured out your link down to your device then you can stake it off and set it where you want it to a hair-trigger remember that you have bait inside the tube and it will be perforate it all along the tube to let the Sun out at that point all you need to do is set your loop around your tube just like this stake it out to the sides if you need to give it stiff make sure it's where you want it cover it up with some debris so the animal comes in and puts his head inside the trap he gets caught you