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afternoon guys Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school I've got a trap set up over here that I want to walk you through today that I've been experimenting with before our trapping class to make sure it wasn't too complicated to teach in our previous trapping methods class coming up here next month this trap the actual trap itself or the killing mechanism of this trap was shown to me about 2009 timeframe by Paul Campbell who's now deceased so it's an honor for me to be able to pass this trap on to someone else my buddy Steve Davis was shot a video at an event out in California of him teaching this trap or demonstrating his trap that we had learned from Paul Campbell but that video is very fuzzy it's a shaky video because it's a guy you know with an older cellphone taking the video so it's not real clean it's not real clear and it's called caveman Conibear so what I thought I would do is I would see the video today reintroducing the caveman encounter bear so that you might get a better look at how it's constructed and how it works stay with me what I want to show you guys today is a very simple body grip style trap that's not difficult to manufacture that will be capable of killing raccoon and opossum sized animals fairly easily we're going to need to construct the scissoring device for this trap and it's very simple you lash two sticks together so that they create a V and at the top of those sticks you're going to put one lashing that's a simple loop at the top and another lashing that has a line going through it so that that loop can't spread out and be pulled together within the trap and we'll talk about that in just a minute the next thing you need to create is the trap housing what's going to house that scissor mechanism and basically all we've done here is driven two stakes into the ground that were the distance apart here and here then our scissor opens and then we have lash to stick to both sides to make a Travel Channel

the Vita operating on the backside we've put a triggering mechanism now you can use lots of mechanisms for triggers and engines with this simple setup of a scissor trap this is one that I prefer we have not fenced or guarded this trap in any way and we haven't camouflaged it yet at all so this is just a simple mechanics on how to set it up one thing that's important with this stick in the back you can see that it has a 90-degree edge on three sides it's flat here it's flat on the bottom side and it's flat on the back side it's just rounded on one side the reason for that is you can use a push or a pull type trigger with this trap a push trigger would be set up closer to the housing of the trap so that the animal would push against it to get to bait beyond it and set off the trigger a pull type trigger is used for animals like raccoons and opossums that eat with their hands and you want to pull type trigger very similar to the triggers that are used in modern-day Coon cuffs because that animals gonna reach into this trap with his hands and he's going to try to pull that bait now you've got to have enough space in here between the housing and the trigger itself back there that the animal is gonna get most of his body within this trigger within this trap housing before he decides to start grabbing that bait so you don't want this trigger close enough here that he can just reach his hands through the trap and start pulling the thing you want him to go all the way in and then start working at whatever you've got for bait in there the good thing about possum mccune is they just about anything so anything you can put on that trap trigger which we'll talk about in a minute they're probably gonna eat okay again we have a scissoring device here that opens and closes just like this when the line is pulled taut it closes this Center and that's what's going to trap the animal between these two scissors and underneath of these two rungs because this will sit inside here like that we set it up so we've got to have enough line here to attach to our trigger our trigger in this case there's just a long stake that's got a notch cut in it to sit on our trigger bar it's pointed on the end of shove a frog or a piece of meat up on or whatever we want to a piece of vegetable whatever we've got corn would work fine and then a notch at the top to tie it off and then it goes up to our trap engine trap engines are something that's very important to understand with traps like this because I see a lot of people teaching these type traps with a spring pull a spring pole is not going to be strong enough to crush that animal and suffocate in you need dead falling weight in this case I've got about a nine foot three inch hardwood live tree that I've cut that way of pulling on one end of the fulcrum you've got probably 40 pounds dropping on the other end to pull it all up into the trap will demonstrate that I've done is I found the tree with a Y entered a fork in it with two trees growing up out of one stump

I've lashed mule tape around it put my fulcrum over the top and attached my traps turning to the fulcrum then I've actually attached the func room to that wrap as well so that it can't move what you want is when this animals trapped in here you want the string to be tight the fulcrum to be dropped if you can get the fulcrum to be suspended off the ground when the trap is set and that's even better

if you can't as long as this dead tight and there's no slack and no bounce he's not gonna get out of there but let's talk about stepping this trap okay to set this trap we need to make sure that our scissor is in the right position to open then we need to draw our fulcrum down toward giving slot to the trigger and slack to the V as well and then we open the V up we can do this after the fact the important thing now is to get this trigger mechanism set and bait it so we need to get it on this triggering bar right here in place now we can fool with all this stuff we can get this opened up the way we want to and down and get things out of the way what's gonna happen here is when this goes off its going to draw this string up which is going to close this scissor and draw the animal not only both sides of the animal are going to be crushed or squeezed for lack of a better word probably not going to crush him but it's gonna squeeze him very tightly it's also going to draw him up into these crossbars at the same time what that's going to do is suffocate the animal because as he breathes out he won't be able to breathe in as deep the next time very similar to a dead falling type trap you can set this trigger up so that it's a push trigger or a pull trigger like I said but for this application a pull trigger is going to be better because that's how those type animals eat you've got to make sure that you've got enough room here your scissors wide enough yet the animal is gonna be out to crawl through there and if we fetch this off here and this off here when we leave that opening he's gonna go in there no question about that now let me show you how this trap Springs and how it works and how it walks the animal in there with a dummy possum so stay with me comes into the trap but here's our fake costume and he gets two feet in there he's over the top and he's working working the Sun and now he's got his body in there he's got enough room in there to get his hands to the bait and try to pull it to his mouth and he'll go in there don't worry about that and we're going to fence this off or cover this cubby up with something that will make it more appealing to him so he can't come in from the sides you can only come into it from the front side and once he gets into this portion of it it starts working this trigger with his hands then it goes off it will immediately lock him in pulling his body up creating a scissor and this thing is dead tight there's no slack in that thing whatsoever and it's tied to the fulcrum device at the top so that it can't move and that dude is surely surely it's gonna suffocate in that trap because there's no getting away from it you're not getting out of that and that is a killing type trap for raccoon and possum guys I hope you enjoyed this really quick presentation of this scissor type trap it's a very effective trap it's a little complicated and time-consuming to build probably a half an hour to build one trap what you can do is you can make some of these components ahead of time the scissoring devices the triggers things like that can be made ahead of time and then you can construct the final components on-site if you are in a position where you have to trap primitively remember that state laws do not permit primitive trapping in lots and lots of states so make sure that you are cognizant of that and pay attention to that before you just go out and set primitive traps all over state land I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters and the Pathfinder school and I appreciate your views I thank you for your support

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