zip ties as snares

[Bushwhacker]

No. Too much friction and waste of time modifying one. Far too easy to nibble/bite through.

 

[Bowlander]

I'll second that.

Not keen on snares myself, especially just for the sake of it. Shooting and using lurchers would be my preferred method.

 

[bikething]

Shooting and using lurchers would be my preferred method.

Do you carry those in your survival kit?

 

[FGYT]

Even using them as a "whip" snare would be difficult!! To be effective, any snare needs to run freely!! Even if they did manage to trap "small game" it would be doubtful that a quick kill would result I'd forget the idea. Also, I wouldn't consider carrying zip-ties in my survival kit when paracord or brass wire will do far more jobs than a zip-tie !!

Snares arnt ment to Kill even whip ones ( you need a pretty bigstrong Whip and beefed up trigger to hold it even for a rabbit)
they should have a stop to prevent it going to tight.


ATB

Duncan

 

[Bowlander]

Do you carry those in your survival kit?

Yep, bedlington x whippet and winchester 101 stuffed in a golden Virginia tin with me at all times!

TBH I don't have a survival kit - just a leatherman and a packet of zip ties .

 

[rimmer]

why would you need to theres always something you can use as cordige its just a mater or knowing how best to use it and in a real situation whos to say you would have them unless you make a habit of keeping a pack in your pocket

 

[Bowlander]

I was only joking about carrying a pack of zip ties, I just have 2 or 3 in my bag.

I spend most of my time on the fell tops where there ain't anything other than Heather and grass. The leatherman/tie combo has proved its worth many a time.

 

[MattB]

Also, even if you could get it to work surely you'd have difficulty securely attaching the other end to something?

 

[bikething]

Also, even if you could get it to work surely you'd have difficulty securely attaching the other end to something?

Cable tie it to a tree?

 

[MattB]

Ha!

In all seriousness though, if you think of a cable tie it's a single loop. If you're using that loop as a snare, how do you attach the other end? It's a plastic tape, so you can't really tie it to anything...

 

[Bowlander]

Ha!

In all seriousness though, if you think of a cable tie it's a single loop. If you're using that loop as a snare, how do you attach the other end? It's a plastic tape, so you can't really tie it to anything...

Just tried this out - you are correct, not sure how the guy in the you tube vid does it, probably with some fine brass wire!

 

[fishfish]

i snare 52 weeks of the year for rabbits and i can say with confidence that zip ties wont work,even the best snares miss more rabbits than they catch,i set 60 snares to get 3-4 rabbits ,admittitly this is down to the nuber of rabbits being at an all time low here.
as stated snare do not usually kill a coney,if they do die in one its usually due to tangling round some thing and it tightening,traditionally snares are used in conjunction with a 'dog leg' this is a stick put in the groundclose to the snare that the coney will tangle round and quicken its death ,live caught coney are very stressed which is bad for the meat in my oppinion,as for spring snares ,well ive made many different types but as i said the ratio of snares to catches is so small you would spend lots of energy making 60 spring snares,the only spring type device i have found usefull is a sprung fishing line.