I will share some secrets tomorrow... what size cable are they and how long?

 

1/8 84"

No telephone poles or fences where i hunt

 

Don't tie em to a fence!!!! That's a rodeo! Telephone poles work great if you know where they rub em!

 

Yall share please. I used to swear the Vietcong used them on some public land we hunted. They always had big hogs down. Those little buggas would not tell me a thing. I tried to infiltrate their camp many nights with no success.

 

hahaha

 

LOL!Yea,I have snared a bunch of them bassturds un intentionally!Very seldom choke em out,as said dont anchor to a fence,or you will be fixin fence.The Mexicans flat had it down to a science,I will listen in on Brady,cause Like I said,I never wanted/meant to....

 

...then you better either cross stake or use earth anchors....I have a cheap desighn with fender washers you cant pull out with a truck

 

fig i would attach to tree but i aint no trapper

 

A tree will work,just when ya think its good and tied off,do it better....like I said personally I cant recall chocking any out

 

gottcha

 

I just realized I’m going out of town tomorrow leaving at 8a.m. so I will start off tonight and remind me to finish up Monday! First off this chit takes practice and you will learn from your mistakes but 8 snares aint gona teach you crap…so I’m gona make this simple as possible …find their trail where they are going under a fence…then decide by their tracks how big they are. I use two different size snares one for hogs under 100lbs and one for the huge ones…<a href="http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj110/wbg444/?action=view&current=2012-09-20_21-23-53_516_zps7a6ffeb1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj110/wbg444/2012-09-20_21-23-53_516_zps7a6ffeb1.jpg" border="0" alt="Uploaded from the Photobucket Android App"></a>

And I put swivels on all my snares…personal preference…I have seen too many cables come un twisted and look like 7 strands of straight wire. <a href="http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj110/wbg444/?action=view&current=2012-09-20_21-11-51_708_zps876db952.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj110/wbg444/2012-09-20_21-11-51_708_zps876db952.jpg" border="0" alt="Uploaded from the Photobucket Android App"></a>
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And then I “load my snares” in this picture if you look closely you will see that both locks are in the exact same position, but one is tear drop shaped and the other is hung down low and is kinda round. The loaded “round snares” “in my opinion” are faster and smoother” it’s hard to load a snare that someone else made, you need to find the natural curve in the cable and then build it to that way..but you can kinda bend the cable where the end of the wire goes into the Lock bend it back all the way as far as you can “I shoulda took some close up pictures of what I’m talking about…anyways…In the very second picture you can see how I bent the wire down back to load it…bend it back as hard as you can make it touch it’s self<a href="http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj110/wbg444/?action=view&current=2012-09-20_21-23-02_313_zpse0eedbba.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj110/wbg444/2012-09-20_21-23-02_313_zpse0eedbba.jpg" border="0" alt="Uploaded from the Photobucket Android App"></a>

 

But after you find the spot where they are going under the fence if it’s a newer good quality fence you can attach it to it but I like to use earth anchors or drags….<a href="http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj110/wbg444/?action=view&current=2012-09-20_21-28-10_743_zpsdf2fe632.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj110/wbg444/2012-09-20_21-28-10_743_zpsdf2fe632.jpg" border="0" alt="Uploaded from the Photobucket Android App"></a>

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A small hog will sometimes wreck out a fence but a big hog will always break away…and I have never choked one out…I have had them caught around the neck and their ears were purple and they still had plenty of fight left in them…so earth anchor or a drag.

 

I will take a lot more photos Monday and show you step by step of what I like to do on fences…but on trails it’s a lot different …it takes a long time to figure out what works where.

 

...just quick jump in.....you always want to load any snare.....it does make em faster,and puts a slight pressure on the lock so it basically falls....the lock,when bumped.I like to take a shovel handle and hold the loop in both hands and see saw the lower part "gently",back and forth till you form a circle.When set the top of the snare and lock should be horizontal with the horizon.

 

Those are kick azz swivels too Brady,exactly what I use on my beaver and yote snares

Them Mexicans made swivels from 1" pipe,and nails and hand weaved the damndest one way knot I ever seen!!!Ingenious rascals!!!They were hog snaring fools!

 

…lol…damn Mexicans…lol…yea a 4” nail on that swivel set up is the chit…only thing to worry about is the crimps slipping on the cable…

 

O and be ready for non targeted animals...but by next week I will have you ready to go! i got to get in bed, sorry if I just confused the chit out of ya…

 

Great info from what I see bud,I used to hold em in 3/32 cable and never had a crimp fail,I had break away cam locks break,but thats what they were supposed to do think they were 350lb?

 

A drag is a great idea,wont jack your spot up....as long as your in country for it to catch some where else....I have some funny stories bout critters and drags!!!

 

We got 4 feeders with dense cover around them. The hogs have very defind trails that they use.

 

This is how I do trail sets. With the guide wire.

 

Watched that vid last night.

 

I un twist barbed wire and use one strand for the guide wire and have my own little ways of making it wind proof and if a hog walks by it and just brushes it, it won't fall. I will have to show u Monday...

 

10-4

 

My first snare hog was 317 on the scale and I tied to a fence and he ripped almost 100yrds of wire and lots of tpost out.of the ground before he burrowed up in a small creek! It was hell! Drags are the best I think plus its exciting tracking a drag!!

 

I dont wanta follow one up in a thicket...lol

 

Question...are you wanting to catch these hogs by ur deer corn feeder?

 

Not much of a deer feeder they wont come close.

 

I do know that there is a chance in catching a deer but i plan to use deer stops an set where the cover is tight ( low head room)

 

...lol..deer stops....that a thing a Yankee state made mandatory on snares to stop the cable from tightening on a deers FOOT! Not around the neck or the waste.