If they are bread for coon hunting they will put the coon to bay, make it hold up and hide in a tree, then you follow the sounds of the barks to the tree and give it a 22 caliber pill. I have 3 beagles at home, they are used for deer, love having dogs around but I cannot while I am in school.
Snaring hares pics
- Thread starter sjemac
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- Oromocto, NB
Got this one this morning. I've been down in Hilden NS (just outside truro) visiting the in-laws for almost the past week and been back in the woods "playing" to keep myself busy....only ####ty thing is that it's stormed practically every day so it's not the best snaring weather. picked this guy up this morning and i've got my fingers crossed for tomorrow morning before the THE NEXT storm starts. I can tell by the tracks that there isn't a whole lot of rabbits back there but there are a few.
For any newbies...I used your basic copper snare wire, 4-5" loop about 2" off the ground...snared underneath young softwood...I didn't have my camera when I checked the traps so I couldn't take a pic of the set up.
For any newbies...I used your basic copper snare wire, 4-5" loop about 2" off the ground...snared underneath young softwood...I didn't have my camera when I checked the traps so I couldn't take a pic of the set up.
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- Oromocto, NB
I hear you there...my dad taught me how. He used to say have a loop at one end, feed the wire through and make another loop at the other end, and tie that too some parachord or whatever you have so that the wire doesnt twist and break or anythign like that (i seen someone else write the same thing earlier in this thread).
also if that doesnt work and the rabbits aren't setting in your snares, put a flat rock and some pepper right bellow the snares...that way they smell the pepper, sneeze and hit their head on the rock!
As a kid I used to do this at my parents' cottage in the La Naudiere region.
Volume was key - my lines were anywhere from 50-75 snares. I had to note their location to keep track.
Upon arrival on Friday night, I would grab my snowshoes, pack sack, and flashlight and set out to "open" all of the snares I had closed the previous Sunday. Then I'd go out again Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, and finally Sunday afternoon when I would close them up for the week. Ah, the enthusiasm of youth. My thighs ache at the thought of that much snowshoeing.
I always used that thin brass wire - can't count how many pairs of pliers I lost in the snow. I would cut a small spruce tree and lay it across the trail, removing the "now vertical" branch(es) creating an opening right over the trail.
Usually, a snowfall would cause them to alter their routes and it meant a lot of work to rearrange everything.
It was a lot of fun.
A word to the newbie - too small is better than too big. DAMHIK.
Volume was key - my lines were anywhere from 50-75 snares. I had to note their location to keep track.
Upon arrival on Friday night, I would grab my snowshoes, pack sack, and flashlight and set out to "open" all of the snares I had closed the previous Sunday. Then I'd go out again Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, and finally Sunday afternoon when I would close them up for the week. Ah, the enthusiasm of youth. My thighs ache at the thought of that much snowshoeing.
I always used that thin brass wire - can't count how many pairs of pliers I lost in the snow. I would cut a small spruce tree and lay it across the trail, removing the "now vertical" branch(es) creating an opening right over the trail.
Usually, a snowfall would cause them to alter their routes and it meant a lot of work to rearrange everything.
It was a lot of fun.
A word to the newbie - too small is better than too big. DAMHIK.
- Location
- Oromocto, NB
Just got back from checking my snares and got #2...a bit bigger than yesterdays. He was a bit covered in snow because it started to snow so I brushed him off and stuff but the pic will give the basic idea how i got this one. basically it was an uprooted tree and he was travelling between the roots and I put a snare between to roots right on his path...very easy concept!
- Location
- Oromocto, NB
lol never actually tried it...that's just what my dad use to say to me when i first started snaring and couldnt seem to catch any
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- London,Ontario
Excellent thread!
I am wanting to try my luck at snaring myself. We have lots and lots and lots of Hares up this way.
But my main question is, what do they taste like? I heard they are very gamey. I shot one earlier on this year, skinned it and it is still in the freezer.
Tell me guys. The smell when you skin them, "you know that wild smell" is that what the meat tastes like?
That is really the only thing here that is left open through out the winter, Grouse just closed today.. So I am very much wanting to know your opinions on Varying Hare and perhaps some simple/quick recipes. If I like em I will hunt em this winter.
I want to get into snaring myself, just bought a new GPS so I can mark my spots but would appreciate some info/pictures of simple snares.
Nlevandier:
I believe it was you who put up the last pictures, one with a few snares and a rabbit. Is that all there is to the snare? make a loop and just loop the wire back through it and the remaining end just gets twisted onto a branch to over hang 2" off the ground?
Sorry, I never had a father or uncle to show me the tricks of snaring when I was a kid growing up because most of my family never hunted.
Again, great thread!
I am wanting to try my luck at snaring myself. We have lots and lots and lots of Hares up this way.
But my main question is, what do they taste like? I heard they are very gamey. I shot one earlier on this year, skinned it and it is still in the freezer.
Tell me guys. The smell when you skin them, "you know that wild smell" is that what the meat tastes like?
That is really the only thing here that is left open through out the winter, Grouse just closed today.. So I am very much wanting to know your opinions on Varying Hare and perhaps some simple/quick recipes. If I like em I will hunt em this winter.
I want to get into snaring myself, just bought a new GPS so I can mark my spots but would appreciate some info/pictures of simple snares.
Nlevandier:
I believe it was you who put up the last pictures, one with a few snares and a rabbit. Is that all there is to the snare? make a loop and just loop the wire back through it and the remaining end just gets twisted onto a branch to over hang 2" off the ground?
Sorry, I never had a father or uncle to show me the tricks of snaring when I was a kid growing up because most of my family never hunted.
Again, great thread!
I don't skin them if I am not going to use them right away. I put them in the freezer, hide and all. The skin is an airtight seal and I have had rabbits frozen for almost a year with no telltale signs of burn.
When you are going to have a cook up, all you need to do is take them out and leave them for about 2-3 hours and they will thaw enough to remove the skin easily. The stomach can be removed as one almost solid chunk as it will still be frozen to some degree. It makes a lot less mess too!.
I cook them up in a slow simmer in Guiness with tons of onions. The gamey smell when you skin them is not at all like you will taste. For an even nicer treat, try bottling them.
DAMN! Got a urge to set up a line this weekend!
When you are going to have a cook up, all you need to do is take them out and leave them for about 2-3 hours and they will thaw enough to remove the skin easily. The stomach can be removed as one almost solid chunk as it will still be frozen to some degree. It makes a lot less mess too!.
I cook them up in a slow simmer in Guiness with tons of onions. The gamey smell when you skin them is not at all like you will taste. For an even nicer treat, try bottling them.
DAMN! Got a urge to set up a line this weekend!
Some good points here, setting them higher will decrease the number alive in the slip in the morning ,as mentioned try to anchor above head height. My rule of thumb for the noose is one fist height palm down above the ground and big enough to put my fist through, subjective I know but am of average size with average sized hands. Brass wire is flat out the best as it kinks and locks easily. My best luck comes in boggy areas with fairly thick chin height spruce trees, low branches offer shelter to varying hares and these area's next to a dirt road or seismic line usually produce very well. I try to mark my slips with surveyors tape at eye level and usually run 30-40 in a one acre area.
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- London,Ontario
Thank you for that info.
Really eh, you leave the insides in and put them in the freezer whole? Won't that effect the taste of the meat at all? Interesting.
I just happen to love Guinness, interesting recipe there. Can you describe what they taste like? like chicken? anything to compare it to? or is it a taste all of it's own?
I mainly want to know if they taste wild. Like deer for instance. Does it have a bad after taste etc.
Thanks again
