How To Make An Eskimo Squirrel Snare
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- HOW TO MAKE AN ESKIMO SQUIRREL SNARE
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3:47 I asked my inuit (war vet) buddy about that "bit" tied to the cordage....
he says that its actually a Stopper and a Hand hold (handle) for carrying multiple game or strangling bigger game. They used alot of these old style Noose with handles, for seal hunting.
that bit, is used as the spring trigger system for the snare. cheers.
Nice, makes sense, more then one use. Seems there could be 3.
Very good sir thank u so much , well done sir from usa thank u
that bit tied to the string could be a trigger when connected to a springy branch. so put bait on that piece of wood and what ever spring action you have attached to it will set it of when bait is taken
Like it he made it nice uniform fits in my backpack well done
Much of the same British wick design method. Can use the same copper/aluminum/steel tubing. Drill and smooth out a hole at the tube end, and make all the cordage weavings. Bury the metal tubing (and extended cordage) so that it can't be seen or smelled, and the peg is put between 2 trees/limbs, or wrapped around a shrub/tree trunk as the stake down - much like a lark's head and toggle knot. Only the snare and the bait shows. When the animal pulls out, the metal tube pops up out of the ground - scaring the animal to run off, and hang itself by the tightening loop. The animal can't chew against the metal, and remains caught by the snare trap. Definitely a good design. A greater design is the same filed prongs in the snare end jabbing into the animal's face and neck (and potential stabbing and bleeding out). Otherwise, with dexterious spot welding, attach small-length (1/2 - 1 inch) piano wire tines at the tube end. The same stabbing and jabbing leads to impaling and bleeding out.
I know this may a bit late but I reckon the added wood may be used similar to the poachers snare you showed that used a stick to stop a rabbit escaping too far down in the warren. The squirrels that are to be in the arctic tundra will most likely be ground squirrels and that toggle like piece may be to stop venturing to far down into its burrow once snared. Just a thought?
Anyway always enjoyed your trap making vids Malc
ATB
Thanks mate. it could be something like for sure
Nice one mate thanks for showing, interesting. 👌👍👋🇬🇧
I think the other piece can be attached to a stick that goes in the ground. Maybe also the extra rope goes between the small stick and the stick that goes in the ground to hold the rope tight a bit so it can be higher off the ground. That would make sense. Just like modern wire traps.
fantastic! and you made it so simply too
Nice info Video mate!
thank you a lots
Brilliant! Can be applied to all kinds of snare traps! Fox, Coyote, Wolf, Deer, Mink, just about anything. Mention of bone is exceptional, easier to come by then antlers and plus better then wood. Wood is great (that's what she, um, never mind, lol), Bone ever better I think. If wood then use hard wood and then fire harden it, if bone can also fire harden. Great vid Malc! Love seeing new/old stuff hardly mentioned.
Pretty sure the second stick is supposed to represent where the snare is tied to a tree or a branch or something so the squirrel can't run off with the snare.
Nice idea to stop the critter chewing it’s way out! I suppose we could adapt this and use a piece of copper pipe etc.. nice one mate thanks for sharing. Best wishes brother 👍🏽👍🏽😎
Great video malc
Looks good mate
That wood pice could be trigger mechanism for spring snare
yeah could be cheers mate
Are there squirrels in the Arctic?
Very good question . I saw that trap In a book and they had called it the eskimo squirrel trap but in the old days the called quite a few different people "eskimo"
the peice of stick is used as part of a power snare trigger
Cheers mate
Pretty sure it's to regulate the size of the noose and to tie off onto a tree. Bring it closer to the antler/bone and it's a smaller noose. Just like a different size of a conibear is used to trap certain animals the bone would be used for that. Hopefully this makes sense.
that could be right mate , cheers , a few of us started to think it may be to stop chew outs as in the old days they no doubt didnt have wire so this would stop or slow down an animal from chewing out of a natural material snare .
That stick. I think I figured it out Malc.
The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition - Bruce Lee
Reminds me of an Indian (um, Native American) Joke...
American Indians was having a feast, the young girl wondered why they had to cut off the ends of meat before placing it onto the pan and roasting it for the yearly feast and celebration, so she went and asked her older sister, "why do they cut off the ends of the meat before cooking it?" Sister Said "I don't know, It's tradition, go ask mom.". So she goes to her mother and ask mom, why do we have to cut off the ends of meat before cooking it? Mother says" I don't know, we always done it this way, it is tradition, go ask grandma." The young girl walks up to her grandmother and ask, "Grandma, why do we always cut off the ends of the meat before cooking it?" Grandma says... "Because meat too big or pan too small". lol.
Ok, so the reason that the extra stick is for traps made out of hollow bone or hollow hard stems of plants that went right through, no hole, which means they glided on cord. Over years the trap probably got modified, instead of going all the way through a hollow chamber, it got converted to what Malc is presenting, either methods would work, the new improved method Malc is showing wouldn't really require the extra piece of adage of wood. But if using a hollow bone or hard stem of a tree or plant would require piece of wood fixed to stop bone or hollow stem from riding up. Best reason I see for having it, two modifications of same trap. Just obsolete method not given up on, but still there for us to learn from. Like with most things, most ways, everything has a reason, even when we may not understand it, if we learn from it, then we grow. Even if century's later. :-)
Wait a minute what will happen if the squirrel bite the wire that you are holding and it's not a wire
Its Inuit know
Maybe the end piece is simply for carrying or choking out animals that are still alive
may I ask you which knife is that you got thanks and good video thank you
its a ganzo i think i,ll see of i can check what model
Actually that knife is a spyderco
Didnt realise Eskimo ate squirrel
LARRY FISHER neither did but. But after checking online Eskimo can be all sort of different people :
a member of an indigenous people inhabiting northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia, and traditionally living by hunting seals and other Arctic animals and birds and by fishing.
Dry lands not a myth, I've seen it!
You think they all live on frozen ocean and in the North pole? lol.
You didn’t set it and show how it works, it’s all theory till then😉