5 Survival Traps and Snares that WORK! – Primitive Traps



When it comes to finding food in a survival situation, traps and snares are a key survival skill. In this bushcraft survival video I’ll show you how to make 5 survival traps and snares that work. We’ll first take a quick look at the simple and effective wire rabbit snare, then move on to the spring pole snare. In case you don’t have a good sapling close by, I show how to make a lift pole snare, aka a flip up snare. Then I’ll show how to make a baited cubby snare with both a sapling spring pole and a Spanish windlass trap setup.

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32 Comments

  1. the second trap reminds me of the simpsons episode where homer sets that same trap and when the rabbit goes through the snare the tree flings the rabbit like 1000 yards.

  2. I’m 55 years old, broken back, can’t feel but half of my right foot, 18 year Army veteran from backwoods Kentucky and I challenge this boy’s survival crap anywhere on earth for 60 days. I’ll even pay his air or bus fare.

  3. Hey man great video if I may add one thing though . I would never recommend to any person to carve wood on their thigh. One mistake could cost you your life in minutes .

  4. With this video, I've seen, along with a few others on water filtering, to know I want to be a sub, so I did! Have you ever thought of using old guitar strings as snare wires? I have never seen it suggested, yet every time I restring mine, it is the first thing that comes to mind as a "re-purpose". Is there a reason that it wouldn't work? Do you know of any primitive live trapping methods. I know that live food can be kept alive until needed in a cage or small pool of water, in the case of fish, but what is a good method to catch the game in the first place? I have seen some small bird traps, but I'm asking about bigger game. If you've done a video already, please direct me to it. Thanks for making all your content. It is truly well produced and worth watching.

  5. I don't think that first snare will work Clay. That stiff picture wire is the last thing you would want to use, they'll just back right out of it unless you catch them right in front of the hips and even then. Been successfully snaring for twenty years and from my experience you'll just have a lot of empty traps unless you spook him down the trail right in front of you.

  6. Haven’t read your book so maybe the following is in there. Sometimes you can’t check traps right away and you don’t want to kill an animal and have it spoil. Solution is to trap live. Game from small sizes to birds can be trapped and stay alive for 2-3 days or more. Please show this type of trap construction. I’ve built cages from small branches that work very well.

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