Re: Wooden rabbit trap plans from
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/15/20 05:31 AM
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There’s a very good one on YouTube, John Wooding. He says it’s for rabbits and squirrels at start of it. The ones I have are slightly small width and it prevents most possums. I think his plans are the same. The trap is more complicated to build but I like it the best of all. You won’t have a bit of problem with it. I didn’t do the door latch part but instead drilled a hole in the top and have a nail that falls when the door does to keep it from opening.
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Re: Wooden rabbit trap plans from
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10/15/20 07:11 AM
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Wolfie- You are looking for the Butzen Rabbit Trap https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=icwdmhandbookScroll down a few pages to plans. Brother & I caught 100's (maybe 1000's) of Rabbits when we were boys in the green, Pa. Game Commission Rabbit traps. Our local warden gave us the traps and then had to return at end of winter. This was back in the '50 & 60's. Wolfie, I still have one PGC Rabbit trap and will take picture as so as it gets daylight here. The pan (treadle) it ramp like. Similar to the one I used
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Re: Wooden rabbit trap plans from
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10/15/20 09:54 AM
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Any of yall remember Little Wolf and Buffalo Hump? I used to pick one of them up to sell fur every few weeks and they had a whole bunch of bunny traps made with a lever mechanism mounted on the top and a vertical door.
�What�s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.� Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Wooden rabbit trap plans from
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Wolfie- Here's pics of original PGC Rabbit trap- A simple, proven design with screws for hinges on door & screws for hinges on treadle. #9 wire for trigger attached to screw on treadle and fence staple on side wall. Notice #9 wire bent in slight L-shape to hold up door. Attached to side wall with fence staple then back to screw on treadle- Brother & I caught 100's (maybe 1000's) of Rabbits when we were boys in the green, Pa. Game Commission Rabbit traps. Our local warden gave us the traps and then had to return at end of winter. This was back in the '50 & 60's. You are looking for the Butzen Rabbit Trap https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=icwdmhandbookhttps://weircreekbeagles.com/rabbit-trapsScroll down a few pages to plans Yep I reckon that's the one theyre actually referring to then. See this is the trap that caught my attention it being a double door and all. I use basically the same trigger much in some if my smaller squirrel and frog traps just not with a treddel. And here's their single door that's basically identical to yours The deal is both the single and double door have the same description and I was hoping the double door had plans you could see as well. But anyhow just really wanted some plans showing the double doors trigger because that mechanism is actually used in alot if different regional DIY cage traps (the Bernie Nelson beaver cage from WA is a prime example ) and wanted to show its actually been around for a while. Documenttaion I guess you could say. Actually heres one if the frog traps I make with a simple trigger.
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Re: Wooden rabbit trap plans from
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/15/20 10:40 PM
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That trap looks kinda like the very first trap of any kind I ever had. I made it with my dad in the old house enclosed porch during a snow storm ...... probably 59 years ago. Only thing looks different was my trap door was fixed to swing down . We had 2 little nails in the floor corners. I used a stick to hold up the door. When a rabbit went in he knocked the stick down. The door must of been held up on his back. When he cleared the door going forward the door dropped and hung straight up and down. If the rabbit tried to back up the door could not keep swinging back because it hit the two little nails. I caught a bunch of rabbits in that trap and made a few more. Used apples, lettuce, corn, even super green and leafy alfalfa for bait. Still remember that.....Thanks Wolfie !!
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Re: Wooden rabbit trap plans from
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10/18/20 08:03 PM
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I've always made the drop door type with trigger stick in the back. But I'm kinda liking the swing door type. Thanks for the info.
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Re: Wooden rabbit trap plans from
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10/18/20 08:48 PM
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I have a WCS wooden rabbit trap. I let my neighbor who has some rabbits , put it in his rabbit cages with the door tied open. 'Seasoned it' with rabbit smell and a few chew marks. I let his rabbits make it better.
Pre-seasoned. Better than a new , unscented one.
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