Lots of snaring info in the archives section of this forum. Go to Archives, General Trapping, then page down the alphabetic to "snare."

Snares is like Newt stated it is easy and do not have to worry about get your hand caught in the trap like a foothold or body grip.Also a snare just one can be use to catch different animals . It is the easy to use trap .All you need to do is just set the loop and height of the snare for what ever animal you after . That is why I post about the snare like I did to make it easy for the OP to understand about the use of them and how far to set off the ground. It is just a simple trap to use.

So far No One has given you what you need to catch a animal in a snare(or trap) .

You must set on LOCATION.

If snaring was so easy there wouldn't be any critters left to catch.
They forget to tell you about the refusals and the knocked down cables and where you just plain miss a critter because it just slips around the loop. Leaving a empty loop just hanging there. And If they say this doesn't happen then they haven't hung many snares. It's a great tool but It's not by any means perfect.
Oh and then you have to worry about the magnetic field those cables give off.

I know all about the empty cables closed loops and misses. And I've only hung three.

It will get better.

That's not snaring beav, that's cable restraints do for you. If you could use a good dispatch snare and get them set in thick entanglement or fence crawl throughs, you'd have a lot few of those problems. Still not perfect as you stated but not as bad as you make it sound.

If snaring is not easy how come many trappers snare hundreds of coyotes a season. Once you learn the eccentricities of snaring coyotes it is relatively easy, you just have to get many snares out where the coyotes travel. As far as knocked down cables go it does not necessary occur because the coyote detected the snare. It often occurs because the coyote gets distracted by something else and turn its head to the side while approaching the snare and hits it with its neck or shoulder and knocks it down. Also with setting snares high if one goes under the snare with its head down, on the next trip, or another coyote, it will come through with its head up. No different than one going around a snare and the next going into it.

With regard to any magnetic field this is the first I've heard of it and I suspect it's a bunch of BS.

I’ve bought snares, watched the videos, read the books and until recently, didn’t have the confidence to use them. Two weeks ago, I decided to go after coon in the snow. Set 3 cages and 8 snares. Over the next week I experienced knocked down snares; fired snares (probably wind); snares COMPLETELY closed with a few strands of fur in them. The snares I was using were 5/64, 1x19, loaded with a slim lock type device. My loops were 8-in wide because the snares kept firing with smaller loops. The snares were 4-6 inches above the frozen snow. This venture was giving me LOTS of lessons about what not to do.

I switched to tight fitting wammies. And I added cam locked snares. I also switched out the the support wire with the new wammies. In the end, I got 3 in snares. One was in a cam locked model on 5/64, 7x7, the other two were in slim locks on the 5/54 1x19 cable.

It’s been a good learning experience. I now feel more confident in my ability to use and make catches with snares.

As has been said by others, you HAVE to be on trails. Success comes with trial and error. I’m a firm believer in the value of failure because it forces you to analyze and learn or quit.

We can't use snares on land in Illinois. But I will repeat what John Graham said at Coyote Days last summer. You don't want to use cable restraints, you want a dead coyote, not one that chews that is running around with a snare on its neck.
With that said, it would be nice if the experts in each state that regulate would listen to the expert that have used their entire life.
I know, politics enter every time. Just wishing.

Snare is the easy trap to set and use. The only problem with them is they are only one time use and if you use the right locks you can re use them.

For what you said for refusal you get the same with any other type of trap if you really look into it , like footholds if they not set right and conibear if the animal got wise up. Nothing if fool proof , that is why it is call trapping. If it was so easy to trap there would b more doing it then there is now.

Go to Beavs coyotes post you will be educated about the magnetic field !

I still think it's BS to excuse/cover up poor snaring practices.

I agree !

I think this is a good place to start:

Rich Faler's Cable Restraint book https://www.fntpost.com/Products/Rich+Faler's+Cable+Restraints+The+Art+of+Live-Catch+Snares+Book

Lots of good color photos and descriptions.

When that's all you can use Is CRs then that's the hand your being dealt. We can't use any cable smaller then 3/32 that In It's self makes the snare more visible. We can't use entanglement that also makes the snare more visible.

Once I switched to 1/19 cable and had a inline swivel in the mix I never had another chew out.
It's far from perfect but It's what we have to work with.

The most effective cable color scheme for me was spiral wrap combo of medium light grey and medium dark grey.

For 3 years I've been trying to snare coyotes. So far a grand total of 3 caught. Setting mainly cow trails in sandhill pastures. After there is snow, I see where they come right to snare, stop and go around .I'm using 5/64 7x7 with death blow locks. Have read and tried about everything to no avail. The grass probably averages 12 inches high, so not like bare ground

Maybe someone can shed some light on this for you and everyone else.