Got a PM from a gentleman from here asking if I could make a how-to.
I'm no expert on dead falls, and there are hundreds of ways to do it. Well, here it goes.
What you use as material for the trigger depends on what you got available.
In this case a piece of fairly straight grown pine from my firewood shed:
Then i split the piece into usable pieces:
Then I picked out three pieces that seemed ok, now you se the shape of the trigger:
Then I marked up for a notch in the upright piece:
The notch:
Then I marked up for the notch in the horizontal piece:
The notch in the horizontal piece, open at one end:
Now the notches on the vertical and horizontal piece fits together. And I've marked up for the other notches:
Last trimmings before the first test:
Does it work? After some small adjustments:
Darling! Duck for dinner!
It took about 15 minutes, and it is a good carving exercise.