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doug1980
01-02-2009, 06:26 PM
Watched the Marine Corps Survival School Training and saw a really cool snare that they used. It had the snare wire, then a figure four trip that was attached to a counter weight. Now I have never used a snare before so I'm not sure if this is standard but have never seen one like this. The ones on Survivorman are nothing like that so I was wondering which would be better? I'm guessing the counter weight would be more effective, but in a survival situation simple is better, right?

Ole WV Coot
01-02-2009, 06:44 PM
My personal opinion after watching a Survivorman marathon while under the weather. You're talking about a snare that lifts the animal off the ground and kinda hangs it. Well he used a snare the easy way but consider him as a person who couldn't find a cross on a church and for entertainment value mostly. He just likes to eat fish bait, and he swallowed something that crawled to his head.

Beans
01-06-2009, 07:13 PM
A USMC snare?
A woman and a beer. Will catch a Marine everytime.
Semper FI

flandersander
01-06-2009, 07:43 PM
Like a twitch up snare. Never tried it, but plan to. This summer maybe, when the ground isn't frozen.

klkak
01-06-2009, 07:51 PM
I've never used anything more then a loop hanging in a trail. Simple, fast, effective!

Ole WV Coot
01-06-2009, 11:53 PM
You got it Klkak, simple is best. Nothing to screw up and it works. Fancy don't do better.

flandersander
01-06-2009, 11:56 PM
Fancy don't do better.

I dunno, i bet a ferrari could beat a 67 geo. Do better in a race thats for sure.

Gray Wolf
01-07-2009, 01:32 AM
I've never used anything more then a loop hanging in a trail. Simple, fast, effective!

Simple and effective are the key words here!

klkak
01-07-2009, 01:46 PM
I dunno, i bet a ferrari could beat a 67 geo. Do better in a race thats for sure.

Ummm........Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but they did not make the "Geo" in 1967.

They did however make a GTO!:D
http://www.gusvette.net/MyGarage/My%20Garage%20Photo%20Album/5-1967%20gto%204th%20car.jpg

doug1980
01-07-2009, 01:48 PM
Sweet car. It depends on the driver, a faster car alone won't win a race.

trax
01-07-2009, 01:59 PM
Yeah, I let the 67 geo thing slide considering flanders youthful enthusiasm, that's a nice goat there klkak. yours?

doug1980
01-07-2009, 02:01 PM
Looks like a model car to me.

klkak
01-07-2009, 02:16 PM
Yeah, I let the 67 geo thing slide considering flanders youthful enthusiasm, that's a nice goat there klkak. yours?

I wish...,

I've had a 1964 326ci Tempest, 1966 396ci Malibu SS and a 1976 427ci Camaro (this one had a little over 600 hp. I got my first ticket in this car)

flandersander
01-07-2009, 03:11 PM
I agree, it does look like a model car. Ok Klkak, you can have a hot wheelz gto, and i'll have a new ferrari enzo. We'll race up a small hill.

klkak
01-07-2009, 03:23 PM
The Enzo can accelerate to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 3.14 seconds[9] and can reach 100 mph (160 km/h) in 6.6 seconds.[5] The ¼ mile (~400 m) time is from 10.8 to 11.2 sec at well over 130 mph (210 km/h) and the top speed is around 368 kilometers per hour (227 mph).[citation needed] It is rated at 12 miles per US gallon (20 L/100 km; 14 mpg-imp) in the city and 18 miles per US gallon (13 L/100 km; 22 mpg-imp) on the highway.
My 1976 Camaro ran almost those same 1/4 mile times. I never tried to see what it's top speed was but it must have been really fast cause I got a ticket once while sitting at a stop light.

flandersander
01-07-2009, 03:46 PM
My 1976 Camaro ran almost those same 1/4 mile times. I never tried to see what it's top speed was but it must have been really fast cause I got a ticket once while sitting at a stop light.


Wow that must be fast. And yeah the enzo isn't really my favorite, it was just the first that came to mind. My favorite is the 2005 hennessey viper venom 1000. 0-60 in 2.5 i believe. Thats fast. My dream car, if I didn't live out in the middle of nowhere, would have to be the Maserati birdcage. http://muntelehermon.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/pininfarina_maserati_birdcage_concept_car_2005.jpg Its a concept car, but its still cool. That would be a great job, to design concept cars.

S.E.R.E Guy
01-08-2009, 12:53 AM
Back to the snare, it's actually called a Canadian Ace

Gray Wolf
01-08-2009, 01:50 AM
Ummm........Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but they did not make the "Geo" in 1967.


The '69 and '70 GTO were the sweetest IMHO!

Ole WV Coot
01-08-2009, 10:23 PM
Made good ones in the '60s. I do believe a 4dr Chevy BelAir made in '58 would make today's "muscle cars" look sick flat out. Even throw in a TurboGlide transmission.

nell67
01-08-2009, 10:35 PM
My dream car would be the '64 1/2 Mustang,saw one....once:(

klkak
01-08-2009, 10:53 PM
Back to the snare, it's actually called a Canadian Ace

Canadian Ace is a brand of beer!

The snare set-up is simply called a "figure 4 snare"

crashdive123
01-08-2009, 10:54 PM
I've been snared by Canadian beer a time or two.

flandersander
01-08-2009, 10:55 PM
I believe its called a twitch up snare.

klkak
01-08-2009, 11:41 PM
I believe its called a twitch up snare.

This is a "Twitch-up snare"

Beans
01-09-2009, 12:25 AM
My dream car would be the '64 1/2 Mustang,saw one....once
I had a 64 1/2 mustang, FB, 4 speed with a 200 CI motor. the trans in these were junk and kept *breaking even behind a 200 CI engine.

* popping out of 1st gear

RBB
01-09-2009, 08:21 AM
The '69 and '70 GTO were the sweetest IMHO!


For four months in 1972 I worked for a delivery service in LA. My delivery vehicle was a 1970 GTO. While the Goat was nice, it was all just too strange. That was enough big city life for me.

trax
01-09-2009, 12:26 PM
Back to the snare, it's actually called a Canadian Ace

That's interesting, I don't know of any Canadians who use more than a loop on the animal's trail like klkak said. All I ever used. I thought Canadian Ace referred to our military pilots (they all have to be aces cause if they get shot down they have to pay for the plane themselves :D :D :D)

S.E.R.E Guy
01-10-2009, 02:19 PM
If set up correctly it's a pretty reliable snare, i've used it to catch tons of squirrels and rabbits