A serious hunter will not specifically kill his time and legs in order to get hare. Loop hunting often accompanies the main fishing. For example, I went to set the traps on the sable, at the same time grabbed a dozen loops. I noticed a suitable place in the birch forest - I established a loop over the hare path. The carcass of the animal for a bait will fit, and the skin will go into the offset for the implementation of the plan.
Time matters
A loop is put on the hare when the winter has already accelerated and gained strength. There was enough rainfall, hare paths cut deep into the snow. They don’t like to run these little animals on the virgin lands, they are making real “sidewalks” for themselves. Putting loops on a hare in winter is also, you know, art! It’s not suicides that are slanting, so as to voluntarily climb into the noose! An experienced hunter finds a place in which the hare does not dodge fate. For example, where the trail passes between two closely standing trees. To get to such a site, too, must be wisely. It is strictly not recommended to step on the path. The hare will notice and reproach: he didn’t lay, say, a path, so by what right are you trampling? He may even be offended and stop walking here. Pave aside another path, away from sin!
How to alert the loop?
The loop on the hare with its free end is tied to a tree trunk, and a ring of wire with a diameter of 15-20 centimeters should be perpendicular to the movement of the animal and hang 10 centimeters above the path. An experienced hunter also disguises the noose with bushes, blade of grass, which is knocked out of the snow next to it. Poor scythe! How many times had he squeezed between these very trees, and the grass gently tickled his fur. And then suddenly - once! Grabbed by the throat and does not let. The more the hare is eager to run away, the more the noose squeezes his neck.
Little tricks
Anyone who is interested in how to put loops on a hare should take note of one more subtlety. So that the scythe does not suspect anything, it is necessary to repel the smell of a person from the noose. For this, some boil loops in the same bowl with a coniferous or birch broom. Maybe the hare is not so finicky as we painted it here, it will not disdain to crush in a loop that is not boiled with needles, but it’s clearly not worth spreading the loop ring over the path with smoked fingers.
What wire is the catchy loop made of?
Now we will tell you how to make a loop on a hare. Popular literature recommends the use of a nichrome wire with a cross section of 0.7 mm for these purposes. It withstands breaking up to 30 kilograms of weight. Such a loop, believe me, will not only stop the hare, but also stop the fox! And the hunters said that the loop on the hare sometimes caught a larger animal than a fox, for example, a lynx. A little more than a meter of wire will go to the noose. A small ring with a diameter of five millimeters is made at one end of it, the free end of the wire is threaded into it - the loop is ready.
Currently, you can buy anything, including quality material for the loops. Previously, they did not really think about what wire the loop was made of. And they did not force hares to test the new product for strength. If it was not possible to get a good thin steel wire from a familiar beekeeper (material of suitable quality is pulled over the frames), old tires from trucks were burned. Or unwinding coils from old transformers. Any rolled up, even thin copper wire, went into business.
Repetition - the mother of learning
The most important thing you need to do to quickly catch the animal is to correctly set the loop. Make a knee by bending the wire at the base of the ring so that for the time being the loop on the hare is in standby mode and only triggered by contact with its potential victim. With practice comes the understanding of how large the diameter of the ring should be. Pay attention to how the animals fall into the loop: if the body - the trap is too large. Tightened and left - it means that it is small or not at the right level. The hare will bypass such a loop. She will bury herself in it, feel something was amiss, and - run out of steam!
Nuances
The hare must fit its head into the loop so that it is thoroughly pulled around his neck. Here is this animal and yours. And then there are times when the hunter at the place of installation of the rings finds only a cleared rammed in a circle. This means that, most likely, the loop was large, so the hare fell into her body. And since no one choked him by the throat, and really wanted to live, he ran in a circle until he twisted and cut the wire. So that the loop from twisting does not break, you can supplement it with a nylon rope at the end, and then tie the rope to a tree. It happens that the place will be such that not a bush near the path grows. In such cases, they use a "slap", that is, a peg, tearing out which, the animal will drag it until it gets entangled in the thicket. And in the thicket he will definitely go, because the peg rustles behind, and the hare begins to overwhelm the persecution mania. Out of fear, he gets stuck in the thicket and, of course, gets tangled up there. They also use a pole, which is buried in the snow at an angle to the path. The long pole of the hare cannot be dragged by itself, and then the scythe remains in place and surrenders to the mercy of the winner.
Preliminary Results
Here we are, without rushing, in a detailed way, we figured out how to put loops on a hare (or on hares). But an experienced hunter will only laugh at our naivety. He will tell that loops should be set only on “fresh” paths. That is, before installing traps, you should make sure that the scythe did not leave the path and still uses it, going to feed and back. If you have frosts all week and the snow isn’t snowing, then you are unlikely to distinguish the old track from the new one, which means that you will not be able to set your loops correctly. Snowstorm, snowstorm and other similar "charms" of winter also do not contribute to normal hunting. By the way, inspecting the hinges, it is advisable to walk, as they say, “trace to trace”. In this case, there is hope that the blizzard will not sweep your tracks, and you will not step on the hare path anywhere. You can re-read a lot of hunting literature, but never try the do-it-yourself hare. It was not for nothing that the classic said that experience is the son of difficult mistakes ... As the Marxists claimed, only practice confirms or refutes the theory. Armed with knowledge, it is necessary to test them in practice, that is, to hunt. Now you know how to catch a hare with a loop. But all the same, it is advisable to go hunting not alone at first, but in company with a more experienced friend, since there is always something to learn from him.
Living example
There are such aces - Mama Do not Cry! And many, most likely, met such. For example, one person can regularly go for hares and bring up to three dozen at a time. And the other company, although it is a threesome, the result is an order of magnitude more modest. And this one, and on you - a full sleigh of hares! It turns out that he goes skiing early in the morning and moves along the track, literally a hundred meters from it. Five kilometers pass in one direction and the same number in the opposite direction, approaching the house. And it does not climb into the jungle, and there are plenty of rabbits. And what’s the trick? The fact is that in the winter, hares are closer to human housing. Foxes, wolves, sable and lynx are afraid of people.
Yes, there are wise hunters, they can come up with a lot of things for effective catching of a hare ... And what a wise hare is!