Rabbit Snaring 101 - Wire Survival Snares
Survival snares and traps are one of the best ways to get food in a long term survival or wilderness living situation. Snares are cheap, quick, and very effective if set in the right way and in a good location. This video will focus on wire survival snares and rabbit snaring 101. I'll show you how to make a wire snare, how to set a snare for rabbits, and also talk about the differences between wire snares and modern cable snares. On the History Channel's Alone, you're allowed to take snare wire as one of the 10 items. Here's how I used mine and how the cast of Alone Season 9 is using theirs. Snare wire can be found at the link below. This wire will work great for a squirrel pole as well.
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I grew up snaring rabbits over 60 years ago using brass snare wire. All the videos I have ever watched you are the only one that showed the proper way to straighten the wire.
How can you straighten the wire with your hands in any other way?????
@@ngrey5092 You can’t get it real nice any other way but I have seen people try to straighten it with their fingers.
@allanlavallee7171 how can I make a lock with the normal snare wire? I'm a bigginer
Love this video! Really appreciate all the work you do putting making these!
Just watched the season 8 final ep last night, searched for snares today and was thrilled to find this. Great job!!
When I was in the army we used the trip wire that was used for the claymores mines..., worked perfectly.
Great little survival snare video Clay, simple and no doubt effective in a pinch!👊🤠👍
The best explanation on snaring I've seen.
I never understood the mechanism of how it would tighten. Thank you for making this instructional video. I was watching Alone and there was one lady who was snaring rabbits and I was like “yes! I need to learn this!” Frigging food prices are out of control. Some day, I want to be completely self-sufficient.
Go for it!
You were definitely my favorite to win season 8. I’m glad you won and I hope the money put you and your family in a good place monetarily. Good job brother!!
Thank you Clay for your expertise and your wire recommendation. I appreciate it.
Hey Clay! Great video ! I loved season 8 and I rooted for you from day “One” when you won, it was like my favorite teams winning the World Series, the Stanley Cup, and the Super Bowl all at once! Your perseverance was nothing shy of inspirational all the way to your victory. Then to see your beautiful family and how they embraced you back was a sensational and endless win! I love the series so much and sometimes while I’m practicing my own survival tactics here in the hills of PA I pretend I’m on the show while I video myself lol. I also am super stoked about getting your book that I just ordered two seconds before writing this comment. So I just wanna thank you for not just showing the world your skills but more importantly, your words of wisdom that helped me with clarifying things I’ve taken for granted without even being way out in the middle of nowhere but right there unnoticed in front of me. Bless you man and your beautiful family.
🍆 🚴
This man may save my life in the future. Thank you
I was raised up setting traps but never used a snare. Good information. 👍
As natives of Idaho, my wife and I were rooting for you when we watched Alone. You represented our state awesomely! Thanks for the video!
Awesome! Thank you!
Simple and effective in a pinch. Awesome in a survival situation.
The type of wire and chin lifter is great information! Cheers!
Got a little rabbit snaring in Army 45 years ago. I use picture frame cable. Other than that ever thing is the same. Snow on ground makes it so much easier to find trails.
So simple and easy to understand. You are a legend sir, thank you for your service. The stuffed bunny had me going 😂
Congrats on the win and thanks for the video. Learned a lot...
This was amazing information, and is exactly what I was looking for. I needed to know how they work, and how to set them up. Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
super informative! Thanks Clay! ✌️
Thank you for the valuable information.
Thank you for this Clay.
I picked this guy to win Alone.. high survival skill level, family motivated, serious outdoorsman
Always learn something watching you. I just finished watching your season of alone on Netflix. It was awesome. I know it’s hard but I really wish they would’ve showed more in the show. I’m super curious why you never build a little canoe or boat though.
Great video. Very informative. Thank you
hi clay seen many videos over the yrs on rabbit snaring but yours had some good tips on it id never seen before so well happy .trouble is live in the uk and cant test them here thanks for sharing
can't believe more people haven't seen this, could be really useful...
Love snaring have done alot of it in the past iv had some success. Have found fence lines are great and in the jumps in crops work well too
Also rabbits don't always die because of the snare. Some times you need to give the a love tap or pull the neck.
Thanks man! I hope I never need to use this knowledge as I am living in the burbs…but, good to know. Congratulations on being the last in season 8!
I have been waiting so long for someone to make a video showing this. Thank you so much brother👊👊. I've been using cable snares for ground hogs,very effective.
Lol, there's videos out there that were made 3-9 years ago, you just had to look em up bro
i used to use guitar string, slinky's LOL. great video, love the channel, glad you did it!!
Excellent tutorial.
Thanks for showing us how this essential skill is done. I wish it was legal in my state.
I have snares, connibears, foot holds, and dog proof traps. I ordered the damn wire anyways. Smooth tutorial boss. I like your explanations.
Awesome stuff Clay 👍
Thanks for the placement/sizing tips. :)
Here in the UK we use copper wire for rabbit wires as you say they done let go . I've not snared rabbits or foxes for donkeys years, even since I caught my Jack Russell in a fox snare , she was unharmed luckily. I shut her in while I was setting up but a family member let her out not knowing. It was only by chance i backtracked and heard the little rascal barking i found her. Great video and given me inspiration to dig out my snares and have another go.
That was lucky!
Great video and helpful thank you 👍 Mandy in Devon uk
Best rabbit trapping video out there!. I'd love to see a video on trapping squirrels.
Love your videos Clay. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Hello clay, I was watching this video and you mentioned Alone and I realized that you where the person me and my family where all voting for to win! I really love your videos, keep up the good work:)
So cool!
Hey Clay, if you make your loop at the end of your wire in the shape of the number 8 and fold it over so you have two loops. It creates a lock
Interesting, I’ll have to give that a try.
@@clayhayeshunter let us know if it works for you! And give us a tutorial
I have to see a visual of this to be confident I know what you're saying.
I want to understand this.
@@chancecarlton8403 same...
Thankyou. Great information
These are great videos... I noticed how the rabbits but the vegetation at a 45 angle like you said in your other videos
Nice video. Thanks for sharing.
Been talking to Rusty the President of the Idaho trappers association for a few years now in hopes that they can get snaring rabbit legal in Idaho. Would be a great way to feed yourself while out on the trap line! Thanks for the video, great content
Agreed, I’m planning to talk to the commission about it.
@@clayhayeshunter beings how you have worked for them I hope you can get it done. Would be a great asset to feed yourself in the field
Well Done Clay !
Thx man, good snare.
Excellent video thank you
Awesome content Clay.
Something about choking out the cute stuffy had me in stitches
Good stuff. Thanks.
Thank you!
I watched season 8 of "alone" and was rooting for you from day one! p.s. nice deer!
Nice this will help in the future
Congrats on winning alone!
Just come across your channel loved what you done on Alone some good tips I've never used a snare before atvb Jimmy from England 😎😎👍
Don't follow this advice of you live in England, search for a man called Glenn waters. A man called woodga also does a DVD on rabbit snaring and he catches thousands a year.
I've recently come to like brass wire 22 gauge snares. They are very soft so give if you get something large. That's something I picked up in N, Canada from Mors Kohanski's guys n galls. Karamat wilderness ways. Great video boss!
Thanks
I've been watching/searching for wire trapping videos as well. There's a lot less information out there on wire vs cable since cable is so ideal. Great video and thanks for the information!
Snares are amazing at catching animals. It's a numbers game so best to set a lot to up your chances of success. Some states have laws concerning how close you set them to each other.
Good stuff!!
Great video
Thank you that was good show and tell. :))
👍 Three Rivers Archery 😄 I hunt with a long bow, great fun. Cool video
Nice 👍
great information
Good idea on the fluorescent colored boxers cut up for flagging 😁👍
Excellent content
I’m watching episode 11 now 😂 !!! Your awesome 👏
Thanks Sofia
I always wondered how snares worked. Now I know! Thanks!
Same way we do it here in Newfoundland. Works great!
Right on
Thanks.
Very good and clear demo! Not easy with Snares as they are hard to see on video
Very useful
Right when you had had it with the gill net, and everyone was starving and tapping out, I thought about it and looked up the rules to see if trapping was allowed. I was wondering why nobody was simply setting small game traps. That place had to be loaded with rabbits, martels, squirrels etc. Sure enough as I kept watching, low abd behold you went to the snare and got instant food! Which brought ne to here to see how you did it. Great job and good thinking to prepare for the show. Boy did it pay off. Is that a book I saw in the backround? U wrote a how to manual? Gotta read that guide to survival. Cool stuff and congratulations.
Great vid. Pretty much learned the same technique going through Navy SERE school back in 1999. Question: any particular way that you secured the non-loop end of the wire to the shrub?
nope, just make sure it's tight and secure.
I wrap the eye portion around a small stick twice to form the eye. The stick provides leverage for making the securing wraps tight as well as making a perfect eye.
Saw a video where it said to take your initial loop, twist it into a figure 8 and fold it onto itself then feed your wire thru. Makes it into somewhat of a lock on the wire
Been snaring rabbits and foxes for 40 years in Scotland. Along with fishing with an otter board. Yes I was a serious poacher in my youth. Country man all the way. Just ordered a Samick sage 50lb bow for a mid life crisis poaching escapade. I have rifles and shot hundreds of deer. Just want one taken with a bow. Anyway Clay. Love your channel. My wife got Encephalitis two years ago and I am now her full time carer. Just need the time to get out and hunt.
Damn bro you really trying to get cancelled. If you're going to admit to poaching at least say that you're regretful of it. Sorry about your wife.
Fantastic bow.
@@yugen poaching is a different word in the UK. All land is owned by someone even if it’s the forestry commission or the woodland trust etc. Poaching here is very different to poaching in the US
I’m more concerned about you being arrested and potentially jailed for hunting with a bow in the UK… be careful
Then you'll know this isn't the best way to snare rabbits or hares. For rabbits make the snares 6 inches off the ground with a larger loop that covers the whole width of the run. For any Americans doubting this we snare thousands of rabbits in a year over here, I don't there's many men who snares over 100 rabbits a season in the lower 48.
bro makes it look easy
THUMBS UP!!! SURVIVAL!!!!
The stuffed rabbit demo has me 💀😄
Thanks! I appreciate ya bud
Any time!
I got a giggle out of the stuffed rabbit example! XD XD XD
@clayhayeshunter, Hey Its Adam again. Question, have you tried the figure 8 on the loop so that it will lock on itself?
Thanks for the info. Do you have a vid on how you clean the rabbit and easy cooking methods?
Good video. It must be a little chilly where you are. It’s hot as hell here in Bama
I think you Clay would look great in a snare!
I would rather watch you over any TV program any day brother!
Thanks Jay
Thanks for sharing, Clay! With talk of food shortages, some may not have to wait for winter. Looks like you picked up one of Teresa's wool pullovers? She's the best! Good shootin to ya, Steve
Yep, I’m liking it.
Where can I get one of those? Can I order it from a website?
another great video, been trying this type of snare on my land but no luck. thanks for some new ideas. Hope I win the Alone sweeps it would be cool to talk to you
I'll do a more detailed vid this winter.
We used to use picture wire ( brass multi wire ) with the steel core taken out. Also a more pear shaped loop, foot snares too.
Thanks
Welcome
Great video you can get snare wire in the craft section of Walmart it's called crafting wire I got 26 guage it's perfect for small game and very pliable you get about 270feet for about 4 dollars
nice
We’ll done Clay. One thing I would add, and I have yet to see in Alone is using the hare snares with a bait pile. They love fresh cedar, poplar, willow boughs and tops. Cut the bait and pile it up. Set on the trails leading to the bait pile and in the perimeter of the bait pile. Works like a charm. Let them come to you.
Great point. I'll go more in depth on a future video. Drift fences work great as well.
I was also curious about the wire snares. I have snared just about everything you can here in WV but, like you said, with cable. I doubt the wire would hold a beaver. Shame. Beaver are very easy to snare, I’ve taken several with snares. Nice video
I've never attempted wire for a beaver but I think you could triple it up and make it into a drowning set with good results.
True,good point
On Cable Snares for Beaver they recommend a Sliding Lock to maintain the tension. A Trappers Supply will have them for DIY, or completed.
I went to a survival show a while back in CDA Idaho. When you create your small loop, leave the excess and turn it into a hair snag. What this does is if the animal tries to back out of it, they are unable to because the hair snag pokes into their skin and they will stop from trying to back out of it.
I knew you was going to win whenever you chased the bobcat away. I said "he'll be the last one left".
I've a smallholding in Cumbria, UK that's plagued with rabbits this year. It's time for me to become proficient at snaring, as I can't get near enough with my air rifle.
Never snared before, looks like an interesting way to take an animal
In the UK elder is the best snare propping sticks. Don’t hold a scent and split easy.
Strip some old extension cord and use the copper wire. Never lost anything using it. Super strong, super cheap, never opens up. Find scrap bits almost anywhere.