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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
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12/28/25 07:56 PM
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Ohio
Trap Ohio
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Several years ago I was was reading up on snaring. I set my first snare on an active groundhog hole. First check was a huge surprise, a big skunk!
Last edited by Trap Ohio; 12/28/25 07:56 PM.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Trap Ohio]
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12/28/25 08:02 PM
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Indiana
Providence Farm
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Indiana
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Several years ago I was was reading up on snaring. I set my first snare on an active groundhog hole. First check was a huge surprise, a big skunk! Ha ha. My first tire set catch was in a bee yard. My calm bees became hot so I figured something was messing with them. Saw the trap was gone and grabbed the wire and pulled it trying to figure out what happened. My son saw it luckily because I didn't had a skunk and it was in the tire. I nearly yanked it right out. It was hind foot caught so would have came out backwards business end facing me.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
#8533225
12/28/25 08:25 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Rodney,Ohio
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Pretty sure it was a raccoon. Used the 3 hole system from Bernie Barringe's book. Still use that system today, mostly for beaver though since even when I recycle everything the snare still worths more than the coon.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
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12/28/25 08:34 PM
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Central, SD
Law Dog
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Fox or rabbit can’t remember what came first.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
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12/28/25 09:15 PM
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Louisville, Nebraska
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It was beaver for sure. I don’t have any pics of my first one, would have been about mid to late 80s . I remember making a lot of beaver snare sets that sort of looked like this and cleaning up on beaver. I could t afford 330s but I had a snare someone gave me with a washer lock and I made a bunch of them up with some cable and old washers I had in the garage: I pounded nuts flat as my ferrules. They weren’t annealed I just pounded them to grab the cable and they held just fine. I had a ball snaring beaver. Jim ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2025/12/full-34529-280253-img_9916.jpeg)
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
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12/28/25 09:36 PM
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Texas
Outdoor todd
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Texas
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The regular coon first night under fence
Loving every day as it comes.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: KeithC]
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12/28/25 10:58 PM
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Jackson Co, KS
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Jackson Co, KS
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I tried sharing chipmunks when I was very little, with no success. The first furbearer I snared was a raccoon, by it's hips. The snare clipped off a little of it's hair.
Keith We tried making snares out of fishing line to catch 13 lined ground squirrels when were very young. No success that I remember. Caught a few coyotes the first year I tried snaring. 3/32 cable and a big ol' washer lock from the Snare Shop in Iowa. If I remember right I literally hung them right over a cattle trail in one of our Summer pastures. Grass was clipped pretty low. So I am sure the snares were pretty visible. Still managed to snare 2 or 3 that first Winter and recall losing a couple to chewing out.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
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12/29/25 12:07 AM
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MT (Big Sky Country)
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My first snared animal was a coyote crawling under a barbed wire fence shortly afterwards I started catching a bunch of raccoons and a few more coyotes over that winter 30 J years ago !
You're friend along the snare line . Allan
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
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12/29/25 01:59 AM
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Rochester, MN
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A beaver. I expected it to be in the water when I approached. But it was on the bank. The cable was badly twisted and some of the individual strands were broken. At the time, I had no idea what I was doing. I do now.
Never too old to learn
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
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12/29/25 10:46 AM
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Ames, IA
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Groundhogs in my grandfather field, then a coon! And I though groundhogs messed u p a snare!
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure
Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
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12/29/25 12:19 PM
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Montana
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Red Fox, I was 12 years old. Was hoping for a racoon. Use to buy more traps with my coon money. Got $75.00 for the fox, saved that money to buy my .243
Let me sugar coat this
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
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12/29/25 06:11 PM
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MN, Land of 10,000 Lakes
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I had caught all the beaver in a colony except for the female. She wouldn't go near a 330 and the water wasn't deep enough to drown her with a foothold. So, I resorted to a snare which I had never tried before. I was surprised when I had her the next morning.
Every time I laugh, cough, or sneeze, my radiator leaks or my exhaust backfires.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: newhouse114]
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12/29/25 08:24 PM
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Indiana
Providence Farm
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Am I the only one to snare nutria? While I was I college I found I needed a heap more traps and had zero money to buy them with. Back then I could whip out a 48” snare if 1/16 aircraft cable and a corner brace for a lock for about 50 cents or less. Snared a heap of nutria back then. Never even seen one let along catch one.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: newhouse114]
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12/30/25 06:55 PM
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Louisiana
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Started off snaring hogs Am I the only one to snare nutria? While I was I college I found I needed a heap more traps and had zero money to buy them with. Back then I could whip out a 48” snare if 1/16 aircraft cable and a corner brace for a lock for about 50 cents or less. Snared a heap of nutria back then. I've snared a couple piles of nutria down here.
If it makes a track on this earth , I can catch it.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: newhouse114]
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12/30/25 07:02 PM
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Am I the only one to snare nutria? While I was I college I found I needed a heap more traps and had zero money to buy them with. Back then I could whip out a 48” snare if 1/16 aircraft cable and a corner brace for a lock for about 50 cents or less. Snared a heap of nutria back then. They sure taste good in a roux of onions Dang you, that just lite up my tastebuds
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Providence Farm]
#8534553
12/30/25 09:31 PM
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S. Illinois
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Snared a beaver using a set that the Bossman explained on here. A stick leaned against a tree with the snare hung between them with back breaker on the tree.
Your entitled to oxygen. Everything else is earned.
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Re: What was your first snare catch
[Re: Buzzard]
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12/31/25 11:03 AM
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S.W.Oregon
newhouse114
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Am I the only one to snare nutria? While I was I college I found I needed a heap more traps and had zero money to buy them with. Back then I could whip out a 48” snare if 1/16 aircraft cable and a corner brace for a lock for about 50 cents or less. Snared a heap of nutria back then. They sure taste good in a roux of onions Dang you, that just lite up my tastebuds As a starving college student, I discovered just how delicious nutria was! Makes an awesome sweet and sour stir fry also! Your guests can’t tell if it’s pork or chicken! Keep them guessing at least until after dinner.
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