I just came back from 2 days of private instruction with Newt Sterling.

The first day we covered snaring and the second day we covered snare building.

I dont want to give away too much because there is a lot of information that he gives out to his private instruction students that he has never told anyone else.

But here are some of my observations from the course:
- Bring a notebook. I probably have 15 pages of notes from just 2 days.
- Bring a camera. He is totally cool about you taking photos.
- There is a lot more to snaring then I ever imagined. Same goes with snare building.
- Newt is prepared. He has pages of notes himself as reminders to what he wants to teach you. He doesnt hold anything back.
- It's a good thing he's old because if he was my age I never would have been able to keep up.
- I asked him what his biggest learning curve was and he told me 'Location and having the eyes to find trails'. He said it took him years to develop. We spent a lot of time in the woods and marshes and he picked up the most subtle trails I would never have seen.
- Newt makes everything look easy. And then you try and do it. And its not.

Here are a few pics but again I dont want to give too much of his stuff away.
Snare One building headquarters:

Snare Support. No whammies necessary.

A wolf snare example.


That's about all I got. If you have the opportunity to go definitely give him a call. He also is running a school from Jan 17-19, 2019.

He makes a dang good snare if you ever want to buy snares. And there is a huge difference between stainless steel cable, galvanized cable, Korean cable, other Korean cable and Chinese cable. Who knew?

Sounds like time well spent Brian

Sounds like money and time well spent. I can only imagine the depth of knowledge you gained. I know I learned a ton from listening to Jonesie for an hour when he came over to the trappers meeting. I’ll have to get over to Newt sometime and take the formal class.

That sounds like the class was worth every penny. I recently moved and found friends and neighbors are having problems with beavers ruining ponds, flooding fields and timber. I had't trapped beaver in 30 years so started removing beaver for them. I got into snaring and absolutely love it. I would love to have some actual instruction but I have found that most anywhere a conibear can go, so can a snare. Most of these beaver were harassed to the point they were very shy, and some showed sign of being trapped. I had conibears blocked and found that if I replaced it with a snare most often the beaver was waiting for me.

Brian, thanks for sharing.
Mac

Paying for instruction was the best $$ I ever spent on trapping. Thanks for sharing and good for you Brian! Fur in Dover better be scared come this fall!

Thank You Brian, You were a good student. Asked lots of questions.took lots of notes.

Newt, PM Sent

Back at ya