bunny traps

[Yager]

anyone have any designs for a good rabbit trap

[Shaun Byrne]

The best is a box trap burried in the ground with a ballanced trap door in the top. 5 or 6 Rabbits at a time is not uncommon but watch out for unwanted guests!!!

[Jiff]

agree 100% probably the best i've ever used,hard work but very affective.

[Yager]

never herd of em hey could one of you draw me a diagram thanks

[Hawkmaster]

Here you go!

[Yager]

thanks apreciate it ive made them before but never that complicated

[Shaun Byrne]

The box trap is basicly a box as big as you like burried in the ground, usually alongside a fence. The top of the box is solid apart from a ballanced tilting trap door. A hole is made in the fence to create a run for the rabbits in line with the trap door. The obvious happens, rabbit through fence, steps on trap door, drops in box, trap door swings back up ready for rabbits mates. The only problem is these traps will catch anything and it is part of the excitement not knowing whats in there. I've had Foxes, stoats, rats, weasels and rats but you might have to deal with Rattlers and the like I guess.

[Colohen]

H4wka
Could you do a diagram of the trap door ? This sounds like a good one.
Been useing Hawkmasters type so far back he was in diapers , works sometimes , better for skunks then rabbits over here !

[Varmint]

Another important point about the box trap is to site it, but keep it locked for a month or so until the rabbits have established it as a safe route.

First day you set it, you'll get a bonaza!

It sometimes pays to sprinkle the trigger plate with dry sand or soft soil so that you can monitor the tracks and amount of traffic going over it, before it is triggered!

Good Trapping!

[Shaun Byrne]

Good Idea about the sand Varmint.
I normally use a basic wooden tunnel through the fence to guaruntee the rabbit has to walk on the trap door. I'll try and get a few pics, we have a few traps set at the moment.

[Ian Wileman]

Why do you want to trap rabbits? I thought the birds were supposed to do it themselves? Alternatively, a really good rabbit trap, costs about £14.00 for ten.....purse nets (oh ye...and you will need a ferret or two as well). lol.

[Hawkmaster]

Might be to export them down here to us in Devon? lol

[Kevin Massey]

i think its illeagal to hunt with ferrets in the usa.

correct me if im wrong on this

kev

[Shaun Byrne]

Why do you want to trap rabbits? I thought the birds were supposed to do it themselves? Alternatively, a really good rabbit trap, costs about £14.00 for ten.....purse nets (oh ye...and you will need a ferret or two as well). lol.

We only trap one piece of land and this is why:

Harris's (2) 63 Rabbits so far this season.
Ferrets 100+ so far this season
Traps 100+ so far this season

Lamping man, with airgun 300+ so far since beginning of Sept.

So you can see this site has a major bunny problem and the Manager needs them sorting.

[Kevin Massey]

hawka what you need there is a field meet :wink:

kev

[Shaun Byrne]

I went for a walk with the dog up there on Tuesday after dinner. I walked into a couple of lads ferreting from Leicester (50 miles away) without permission and not 200 yards away from them was 5 lads from Leeds (80 miles away) without permission. We had to be police vetted and have written permission before we could even think about hunting. Those figures I gave weren't exaggerated and maybe on the light side. Not going to give the location away but its very private, has been managed up until about 5 years ago and has had no hunting of any kind from then until this year. Its about 60 acres of wood, paddock and rough grassland.
The 2 gangs of lads ferreting had over 80 rabbits when they left, the security guards asked them after they asked them to leave. I fear our "land of milk and honey" may be hammered by poaching!!

[Hawkmaster]

YES

[Colohen]

Ian
To train new raptors.

Maxi
Some states allow it . Arkansas laws conseder it to be "disturbing the natural habatate" which make little sence when they allow dogs like dish hounds which can do much the saame thing.

[North East Harris Hawker]

i think traps are a good way of boosting the freezer in the summer months, especially if you are thinking about a breeding project

[Sean]

Any pics yet h4wka?