American Mod to the Asian Bird Trap Snare

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okay guys what we're going to talk about real quick in this segment is we're going to talk about improvising bird traps all North American birds aren't edible so it's a good meat source the trick is you have to find something that the birds eat in this case I've picked some berries some local raspberries I know the birds will eat those and I've got a simple new setup and I've used one piece or one ply from 150 pound test Bank line which means I've got a fifty pound test snare right here very thin Brown almost invisible and two more to back that up with right here from one piece of string that's only about three feet long so that gives me a good wise utilization of my tree so Kay I've made my noose as big as I want it tied my tog along with multiple 1/2 inches right above my noose and it will come down on the ground like this tied to a sapling or a spring branch and it will become a spring type trap okay these are the components for our trap we've got our bait - raspberries we've got three small sticks we're going to use four spreaders we've got a bait stick that's actually made from a honey locust and it has thorns on it that's what we're going to connect our bait - this will be our triggering stick we have a cocking device which will hold our triggering stick and we've got an outer side that will hold the trigger and stick on this side so let's get this trap set up right here below this tree and show you how this works

okay first I'm going to pull my stick down here my actual trigger and I want to see where I want my holding device and I want it about right here so I'm going to squeeze that fork together and shove it into the ground as low as I want it which is about right here and I'm just going to dig a bed out a little bit right here below that now the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to measure my trigger stick and it's going to be I've got a notch right here and right here that I can use depending on how bad I want to bury this so I'm going to go ahead and put this in the ground about the right height and distance just like this and I've got one into this kind of flattened out and the other end is not so now what I'll need to do with this is I'll need to take this trigger put it underneath here and put my triggering device on it just like this and I can set that so it's a hair-trigger very easily right on the edge just like that then I would take my noose if I had this baited which I don't yet I would take my noose and put it around this area on top of here and then use a couple of my spreading sticks just to kind of hold it in place and make sure it stays spread out I'll put them in at an angle like this just like that and then you have a set trap now let's get this thing baited up and then we'll demonstrate it for you okay so like I said I picked a couple raspberries and I used this stick that has thorns on it to hold my bait in place so I'm just going to skewer these raspberries on here just like this

and now that becomes my bait stick and now I can pull my noose back down underneath for my trigger cut my own trap there okay I think I'm going to flip that trigger over so the long end is up and the short end is down like that and then get my hair trigger set real quick then I'll take my noose and open it up the length size that I want and I'll put it around my I put on the inside of the steak and on the outside of these just like this right out to the trigger mechanism just like this so my intent is for a bird to come inside here and start nibbling at these berries and when he does that he's going to get his head or his leg or something caught in this trap and get jerked up and held in place and he can't go anywhere so he's going to be right here when I come back if he doesn't strangle himself before that you