Thread: Snaring rabbits

This is an interesting discussion. I definitely see the appeal of snaring, very grassroots... I spent some time in Africa many years ago, and the young boys in the village had a great technique for snaring rats. The rats would make these tunnels through the long grass by the river along their most travelled routes. The boys would set up a snare with a stick and some string and put the loop so it was sitting vertically in the tunnel. Then they would start 30m up river and walk in a line down toward the snare whacking the grass with sticks and chasing the rats through their tunnels and into the snare. Really good fun, the only downside of participation was having to try the rat once caught and cooked....