real Professional Grade Self-Locking Snares. Not many other survival instructors are recommending using real snares. This leads a percentage of people down the wrong path thinking all they need is a spool of 22-28 gauge wire and they can snare anything. This small wire can be used to snare rabbits, squirrels and small marmots. One reply I have heard 100's of times is, "I came up to my snare and the area was all tore up and all I found was a piece of broken wire." What happened? It is hard for me to say without being there and seeing the area. My guess is they snared a coon, or what I call a medium size animal in the 12-60 pound range. Some folks call these size animals small deer. Or there was a rabbit/squirrel in the snare and a predator came by and stole it. It happens.

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Snaring small deer (beaver, raccoon, possums, ground hogs, etc), first thing you need to understand is how a Professional Self-Locking Snare works. The snare is made out of Aircraft Cable with a Special Lock that allows the snare to easily close, but when the animal tries to escape the lock prevents the aircraft cable from moving backwards and securely holding the animal until you return.  Someone called and told me that some guy on ESPN stated that self-locking snares didn't work because the animal would back out. When I got done laughing I told the customer then millions of animals over the years didn't know any better and never heard to back out. Think about it. Millions of animals have been caught with Self-Locking Snares  but this armchair expert is telling millions of people that they don't work. Kind of funny when you think about it

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Let us look at the real world. You are flying in to a hunting trip in the wilds of Canada. You are stuck because the guide took off with your money and never came back for you. I am not saying anything against Canadian guides or any other guides it was a scenario I heard about.  Chances are there will be beaver in the area. A very good chance because in a recent study the Canadian government said that there is just as many beaver today as there was 400 years ago, maybe more. Adult beavers will be in the 35 to 60 pound size on the average. If you try the small wire recommend by most survival manuals the beaver will go through it like a hot knife through butter. All you will find is a tore up area and a piece of broken wire

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If you have a Buckshot's Emergency Snare Kit you will have 14 professional grade snares. What does this mean in real world terms. To figure out the strength you need for the right snare you need to understand how animals fight the snare. An average animal can put 5 times his weight into breaking strength. Simple math on 20 pound coon can put 100 pounds of breaking strength on a snare. A 200 pound deer can put 1000 pounds of breaking strength on a snare. Now, the next thing you need to understand is once brute strength doesn't work the animal will then start chewing on the cable. That is why 3/32 Snare Cable with a breaking strength of 1080 pounds is recommend for small deer because of chewing. When chewing doesn't work the next thing the animal will try is rolling on the ground twisting the wire all up. You can take a piece of 22 gauge wire and try it yourself. Wire it off to a sapling and grab a hold and go around in a circle. Within a minute maybe 2, it will be broken off.

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On most small creeks that have beaver dams you can snare the beaver. Raccoons run the dam length wise and the beaver will have a crossover. Also, if deer are in the area you should find a trail crossing on the dam or below it.  In ten days with Buckshot's Emergency snare kit you could snare 4 beaver, 2 raccoons, 6 rabbits or ground hogs and 2 deer. (please understand snaring deer is illegal and this can only be done in an emergency). What is that in pounds of animals ? Say 40 pound average on the beaver = 160 pounds, 2 raccoons at 15 pounds each = 30 pounds, we will say 2 pounds each for the rabbits and ground hogs = 12 pounds and last but definitely not least, 2 deer at 150 pounds each for = 300 pounds. Total weight 502 pounds.

To be fair lets compare and say you had the same success with plain wire snares. You caught 14 rabbits or squirrels. 2 pounds each = 28 pounds. Pretty simple math. 502 pounds compared to 28 pounds. Who you think is going to be living longer and have a better chance of survival??

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