Larsen Traps

[Hawkmaster]

Do you use one?

[Sniper]

Not used one myself,but a good friend of mine catches a hell of a lot magpies in his,and on one occasion his harris got caught in there as well..tempted by a morsel a suspect
:oops:

[Hawkmaster]

Does his have a side or top sprung door?

[North East Harris Hawker]

where do you get hold of these traps? they look like a good way of bumping up the freezer in the summer months :idea:

[Hawkmaster]

Phil, Makes them at a real good, not sure how much though, you can PM him or we may be blessed to get an answer here? LOL

[North East Harris Hawker]

where is he though? i doubt p+p will be cheap !

[Hawkmaster]

£12 to anywhere in the country.

[North East Harris Hawker]

crikey thats a steal, but how much are the traps? theres an industrial estate near me thats wick with crow and magpie..... :roll:

[OutFlying]

Do you use one?

Yes, top opening, 3 compartments - centre compartment holds decoy live crow, compartment either side to trap corvids. Made myself, catching dozens through the summer.

[Finnish]

I don't use one but a friend of mine dose and he has always got maggies for everone,Jim do you have any pics of yours.

[NightOwl]

there was a link on another site on how to make your own - looked pretty straight forward from what i can remember.

[OutFlying]

I don't use one but a friend of mine dose and he has always got maggies for everone,Jim do you have any pics of yours.

Lee, I can take a photograph but can't compress it to send to the forum. If your on broadband, I'll send it direct to you.

[BFC 007]

http://www.trap-man.com/

[Jack Merlin]

I make my own to the Game Conservancy design. Easier with a band saw.

Don't know how you trap maggies down south but I just lifted my traps. I put them out with a crow decoy near a favourite nesting site. The residents come down to drive off the "intruder" and get caught. These are disposed of and another pair move in. And so it goes on until they give up!

Crows this far north are too clever to be caught in a trap baited with anything other than another crow and then they only work during nesting when they are naturally aggressive to any other crow invading the territory. We don't have magpies.

I can take some pics if anyone is interested.

[Finnish]

Yes put some pics up Jack.

[Jack Merlin]

I'll do it tomorrow.

[Jack Merlin]

There are two catching compartments (one set, one tripped in pictures) and one compartment for the bait bird. There ought to be two perches in the bait bird compartment, one under cover.

[Jack Merlin]

View from the other side!

[Hawkmaster]

Good Job.

[NightOwl]

Thats identical to the pattern for the trap i seen.

[Chris S]

i used to use one when i worked on the farm i found it hard to catch the decoy bird so in the end pulled a maggie out of the nest and hand reared it worked a treat because you have a tame bird in the trap plus he calls all day for food

[GoneHawking]

Just had the Firearms officer round to deliver my Firearms/Shotgun certificates from my house move, He has a larsen at the bottom of his garden and has caught 14 magpies already, the maggie inside is a really good caller, going to get a trap soon and catch some of the little ******s myself.

[OutFlying]

my larsen.

[GoneHawking]

Outflying, did you make it or buy it?

[OutFlying]

I made it, it was made up from 3 wire baskets from a shop. I cut off a few extra's, made a wooden frame for the top with the trap doors and tie wrapped them onto the wire section.

Caught dozens of magpies last year and farmer thought it was the bees knees. Haven't seen a magpie round the farm this year but caught 5 adult crows so far - now waiting for the 2005 hatcher's.

The advantage of using vertical bars is that your decoy crow/magpie does less damage to itself on them when bating about rather than chicken or square mesh.

[GoneHawking]

Looks good nd certainly seems to work well too, the farmer wouldn't happen to have a very good shoot on the estate would it, in the Burford area?

[Bill]

Hey guys, don't forget that the only legite reason for trapping corvids is pest control. Some people trap them "cos they don't like them". That's prosecutable.
I trap them to prevent damage to game birds and song birds. :wink:

[OutFlying]

Looks good nd certainly seems to work well too, the farmer wouldn't happen to have a very good shoot on the estate would it, in the Burford area?

No you've got me mistaken for someone else.

Another Jim :?

[OutFlying]

Hey guys, don't forget that the only legite reason for trapping corvids is pest control. Some people trap them "cos they don't like them". That's prosecutable.
I trap them to prevent damage to game birds and song birds. :wink:

used on a sheep farm for pest control, as a side line also helps the game birds and feds the hawks. :wink:

[Bill]

. . . feeds the hawks

On it's own that wouldn't be enough. Guy got prosecuted for shooting starlings in his garden, to feed his hawks. If he'd said they were Shyting on the washing he'd have been ok.

[OutFlying]

Bill, as I said it is as a side line for the despatched corvids which are fed to the hawks. The primary pest side is the damage to the young lambs and local bird population, but once caught why waste them.

[Jack Merlin]

The advantage of using vertical bars is that your decoy crow/magpie does less damage to itself on them when bating about rather than chicken or square mesh.

You are right. Chicken mesh is nasty stuff. But the square mesh seems to work OK.

But I like your idea! That's what is called re-cycling! Buying timber and weld mesh is expensive but this year I had a production line going and I am hoping the traps will last a few years.

[OutFlying]

will be making a second over the weekend, will put photo's of before and after up.

[Varmint]

Oi Bill, Does that mean that if i shoot some casual caller whos on my place after hours, id get away with it if i said he was shitting on my washing????

[Bill]

Oi Bill, Does that mean that if i shoot some casual caller whos on my place after hours, id get away with it if i said he was shitting on my washing????

I would think that perfectly reasonable Adrian. :lol:

[Jack Merlin]

Oi Bill, Does that mean that if i shoot some casual caller whos on my place after hours, id get away with it if i said he was shitting on my washing????

You meant you TELL them when you shoot trespassers??

I just boil 'em up for the dogs and say nothing. Mind you, I have to be quick to think up a reason why the odd human skull is rolling around in the kennels...