how does a snare trap work?

Answer 1

hi there , a snare trap is a piece of wire of large enough diamiter to hold what it is you are trying to snare... we use light copper wire for rabbits and small gage cable for coyotes and foxs. make a small loop in one end of the wire about three times bigger than the thickness of the wire, bring the other end through this loop and pull it up till it forms a hoop about 6 inches across now tie the free end around a branch of a tree beside the rabbit run and useing a couple twigs hold the loop in the center of the run 3 inches off the ground, now when the rabbit runs into the loop and feels tighten it will pull away hard , as it does the noose tightens and the wire bends back over the little loop and locks it from backing off and he chokes to death.check to see if you can snare in your county.im in canada and we can no longer snare animals, other than beaver.

Answer 2

PBI: How do snare traps work?

Bruemmer: A snare trap is basically a steel cable that, as the bear puts his paw onto a pad in order to reach into the trap, the trap flips up and the cable flies up around his foot. And the bear jumps back and then he pulls the snare tight. The snare itself was attached to huge 45-gallon drums, filled with rocks, to make probably half a ton or so of drag. And the bears would fight that pretty hard at first, and then would be very philosophical about it, Once they figured they couldn’t get out, they would just sit there. We would come with our tranquilizing gun, tranquilize the bear, weigh and measure the bear, take out the premolar—you can age the animal by that—and then tattoo the lower lip, tag the ear, and take fat samples because already then there was worry about lead and mercury. Even back then. That would be deposited in the polar bear’s fat. And blood samples... in the States and Canada they were interested in blood samples, because nobody had done work on polar bears. Up to then it had been all observation of polar bears but just simply killing them. Early studies in the 20s, 30s, 40s, they just basically shot the bear, weighed it and maybe skinned it, and maybe sent the skin to a museum. The idea of capturing them alive only became possible once you could tranquilize them. Before that, even if you caught one alive, then what?

Answer 3

There is more than one kind,.
One type the animal gets his foot caught in and the wire loop is spring loaded by a bent tree or other mechansism.
When the animal tugs on it, it trips the spring and holds the wire tight or in some cases will pick the animal up into the air.

The other type goes around the animals head and does the same thing after that
I have a friend who does this for a living. Here is a link to his website.