How to Build a Premium Snare

hey fellas me trapper here welcome to another edition ensnare scope now today I'm getting ready to go on what is probably gonna be the last out-of-state snaring trip for me this season as a result I'm building some new snares now what I want to talk about today is how to make sure that your snares are properly swiveled and why that's so incredibly important for keeping your catch now just personally I believe that after the aircraft cable itself the swivel is the most important component on your snare the swivel is what allows the animal to twist and twist and twist without kinking the cable up thus weakening it and allowing them to chew through a lot easier so let's take a look at what I do how I do it and some of my thoughts on the matter including why you need to make sure that you're buying quality American components instead of cheap Chinese junk and what the difference between the two is first of all let's take a look at some of the tools that we're gonna need and some of the supplies were going to need in order to build our snares number one we've gotta have cable itself this is one by nineteen aircraft cable 5/64 inch diameter this is extremely good cable very strong cable now after you've got your cable you're gonna need your various pieces and parts we've got stop buttons we've got Farrell's we've got swivels I'm using the Thompson snare tools I really like those on the as far as the end swivels now my mid line swivels and what I'm talking about today is a barrel swivels and I've got different sizes of barrel swivels we're gonna talk about stainless steel and copper components you're gonna need a measuring tape one of the things that's very critical is a piece of cable cutters when you go to start cutting your cable do not use a pair of pliers with side cutters use an actual pair of cable cutters and then never ever use these to cut wire these are these are critical to get a clean cut now I also have a wager now normally this is mounted to my workbench and bolted down but as you can see this thing is heavy enough you can use it in a portable environment like what I'm showing you on the back of my truck so you can actually build these snares on on location if you need to now these Dewalt boxes here are some of the best ways to keep your components organized you I can put different sized Ferrell's different size stop buttons in different boxes here I have my support collars everything you need is right here it makes it easy to transport the stuff is not going to spill out and it's just a great way to keep your snare building supplies organized so now let's talk about barrel swivels and why I think they're so critical ok let's take a look at a traditional snare swivel which is this component right here most of the time if you go out and you just buy a random old snare what I call a POS plain old snare it's gonna have this as the swivel and it's going to be on the end of the snare just like you see here that's going to be the only swivel that most people put on their snare to me this is a big mistake because what happens is is when the animal is caught the animal is going to swim around or jump around and they're gonna get tangled up and brush tangled up around trees and it completely defeats this swivel because it's on the very end now you'll notice this is a snare that's made by southern snares calm and it has an inline swivel and this is a barrel swivel on it what this does this place is a swivel directly behind the smaller portion of the snare what this does is this means that even though you're terminating your snare here and you're connecting to a tree or an anchor or an earthing or what-have-you you've got a secondary swivel that is close to the animals and at our close to the animals of body where they've been caught and it's much much more difficult for them to put this swivel out of action compared to this swivel now I still use these on my snares but not really as a swivel but more is just a termination point where I can cable off to an extension cable and earth anchor a tree or what have you but this right here is what's going to save your catch this is what's actually going to provide the swivel action on the cable not this now these barrel swivels come in different sizes and here are three of the most commonly used at least the ones that I use the most the top is in number six swivel the middle is a number eight swivel the bottom is a number twelve now I use the number twelve swivels on hog snares that's really the only place that I use those because they're so expensive but they do vary they do last and they are very very strong now the interesting thing to me is to look at the number six and the number eight there's virtually no difference in size but what you will see is a difference in the thickness of the material in other words you're talking a difference in holding strength or holding power not so much the size of the swivel itself now the next thing is the difference between US and Chinese equipment now these are the rated or stated specs for a number 12 swivel a us-made swivel is rated at 1500 pounds and the Chinese swivel is rated at about 600 kilograms which is about 1300 pounds in other words the u.s. swivel is stronger and is going to hold more before it breaks the other thing about a Chinese rating is I honestly can't say that I have a whole lot of confidence in this number right here just because it's printed on a piece of paper that comes out of communist China you know this may be correct it made me may not be but I do have confidence in this number right here so there's not only a difference in the size of the swivels but there's a difference in the rating based on where your snip swivels come from all right let's build a snare what I'm gonna build is a two-piece beaver snare and what I've got is I've got 40 inches of my aircraft cable I've got my terminal land swivel that we're gonna use later this is a Thompson snare swivel I have really gotten to where I like that Thompson snare swivel and compared to the traditional type of swivel and this one it's a lot stronger it works much smoother and this has a quick-connect end on it which I really like I'm gonna have a washer which goes with this once again not all hardware is created equal look at how thick and heavy duty that washer is I've got to stop buttons I've got to double Ferrell's I'm using a number six barrel swivel the reason I'm using a number six is because this is for beaver and beaver are not that hard fighting animals they're out in the water swimming around and I'm gonna be using a low pro Lock I really got enough to where I like these low pros it's a very fast firing lock very smooth and I've got a pair of pliers to help me normally if I were at my shop I would have my needlenose pliers but this is what I've got so this is what we're gonna use so the first thing to do is let's get our cable uncoiled now earlier I mentioned how to use cable cutters and I want you to see if you can if we can zoom in on that see what a nice clean cut you get with table cutters if you tried to cut that with pliers or side cutters it would be a disaster so I'm gonna take this and I'm going to thread my stop button on it and then I'm gonna put a crimp on this I always put a double crimp that makes it very hard for that beaver to pop that end off that cable now this is important you'll see how this cable sort of has a has a lay to it in other words you can you can see how you roll that over that's because it was coiled that way on the spool and you always want to pay attention to what that lay is now what we want to do is we want to bend this cable back a hundred and eighty degrees against the lay so I'm gonna just take this and I'm working around the camera so bear with me let me get that just right Bend that back put a little set into it and that's what we're looking for is something like that now we want to thread the snare lock on so we're gonna go to the other end we're going to slide it through each each type of lock cam locks limb lock whatever they're gonna thread a little bit differently so you just sort of have to experiment with your particular lawsuit on there and then we come back through this end right here and you can see now we actually have something that's starting to look like a snare the next thing I want to do is I want to take my support collar which is just a piece of vinyl tubing and I want to slide it on so we have something that looks like this now you can see why we put that Bend at 180 degree bend in the cable and that's so it'll hang back down like that so now what we want to do is we want to put our barrel swivel on it so we take a double ferrule and we're going to slide it through one end here and then put the barrel swivel on it we're gonna Bend that back over there we go and now I'm going to crimp my double ferrule now at this point we pretty much have our snare done the actual snare itself you can see if I open this up to about a 10 or a 12 inch loop I'm gonna have my support collar there notice how close my barrel swivel is to my loop that's what I'm looking for now what we're going to do is we're going to build the second half of the snare on that connects to this end this is often called an extension cable so what we're going to do here is we're going to do the terminal end what we want to do is we want to slide that through like that put our washer on take our other stop button and let's go ahead and put a crimp on now you can see how that works you see how that swivels around and that's why you use that washer that washer provides that flat bearing swiveling surface right here now the way this works is you can take if you wanted to connect this to a tree what you could do is put that through like that and you can see now you've got a connection point right there or you can just wire that off so the terminal end of this is done now what we want to do is we want to attach it to our barrel swivel so I'm going to do the same thing we did last time just put that through there put it through there and let's go ahead and put a crimp just like that now let's take a look at our finished product we have our snare we have our support collar our snare lock our terminal end we've got our barrel swivel our mid length swivel right there we go down to the end of the cable and we've got our terminal swivel they can also be used as a quick link right there to go around a tree or what have you or just wire it off so now you can see we have our snare but it's got the traditional teardrop loop in it and that's not what I want what I want to do is I want to load this snare so that instead of a teardrop loop I have more of a round loop so to hold a round or leave that's one of the things I like about the 119 cable is it'll really hold a round loop now I've got an entire video on how to load snares where I do it at my workbench and show you I just want to do this here real quick and what I'm doing is by loading I'm putting a bend in about one third of the cable next to the airlock so this is just quick and dirty so this is what I want to end up with for a beaver snare I want you to imagine this loop being in the water about half out of the water half in the water and look at how wide of a target area that I have after I've put the load in it versus what it would have been like with a teardrop with a teardrop loop that beaver has got to hit this dead center with that I've got much more of a target for that beaver to hit and to get caught so hopefully you can see when you get into snare building there's a huge variety of components out there they're not all created equal you do get what you pay for and you can put exactly what components you want on your snare you can build them exactly how long how short you can do a mid swivel you can do an end swivel you can use stainless steel hardware American Hardware Chinese Hardware it all depends on what your needs and what your preferences are now I built that on the tail end of my pickup out here in the woods just to show you that you can put a snare together just about anywhere and you can even put a load in it by hand now if you're at home on your workbench when I get set up it takes me about sixty Seconds to put a snare together another thing is when I'm at home doing them in bulk I do them in batches in other words I cut all my cables to the right length first then I'll put the stop button zone then I'll thread the snare locks on so I'm doing them batch of a batch I'm not making one snare and then starting on the next one then starting on the next one so anyway I hope this was useful like I say take the time to buy quality of material and use a vendor that you can trust because if you're gonna go to all the time in the trouble to either buy snares or make your own get out in the woods when it's cold it's wet and it's rainy get in the water make the set by the lure you know you're throwing all of that away if you cut corners and use cheap equipment so anyway hopefully the next video out will be from my out-of-state trip hopefully we'll have some hogs and some beavers and some coyotes State [Music]

Channel: The Meat Trapper

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Keywords: beaver trapping, how to catch beavers, survival trapping, snaring, survival snaring, how to build a snare, prepper, meat trapping, trapping for meat, how to catch food, how to snare rabbits, how to trap turtles, trapping snapping turtles, how to catch turtles, how to catch snappers

Id: X1FRP1DbNQ4

Length: 17min 53sec (1073 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 25 2020