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Have you ever wondered how do hunters hunt without guns or bows and arrows? Many people just use traps to get a rabbit eating your carrots out of your yard but it can be used for so much more. Traps can be used for animals, ants, and even unwanted intruder.(Types of Traps).

Traps can be used for many things like when you see an annoying fly buzzing around and you can’t hit him with a fly swatter you go immediately to the fly trap. The traps that people like most are the animal traps. (Types of Traps) They are mostly used by fur hunters. The Hunters rather capture it more than killing it with a gun. The indians used it to protect their homes and families. The indians used to trap a wolf then skin it and wear the skin and would go into a pack of buffalo so the buffalo would not hurt them. Then they would take off the skin and kill one of the buffalo ( Types of Traps).

There are many types of traps and about 50,000 animals in the world that can be caught by a trap because they can fit in the trap. The steel - jaw leghold trap which is used more often than the others has sharp jaws to break the bone of the animal so it will stay down. It also has a pan - tension device that activates the jaws to snap shut (Types of Traps). The Steel - jaw leghold can catch coyotes, foxes, raccoons, and skunks (Trapping). Then there is the padded leghold which is copied off the steel - jaw but with pads. Only 5% of trappers use this type of trap because of how much it damages the animal (Types of Traps). It was designed to be safer, but the speed of the pad crushes the bone and hurts the animal. The padded leghold can catch a wolf, badger, bobcat, and lynx (Trapping). The conibear trap has two squared metal pieces on the metal platform that are hooked together and when you push them down it sets the trap. There is a trigger and when something steps on it, the squared metal pieces will come up and get the mouth of the animal. Conibears can catch rabbits, wessels, armadillos, and squirrels (Trapping).

The Snare trap is a unique type of trap because it does not have a jaw. The snare trap is just a metal string that wraps around the animal's leg. It is made out of a light wire cable and a small nylon cord. The snare trap can catch cats, beavers, opossums, and sometimes dogs by accident (Types of Traps). A simple homemade snare can be made with a guitar string. First you need to get a guitar string then you put the end of the string in the hole at the other end. then you get a few sticks and stick them in the ground and put the string on the stick. Finally you set the trap and put the bait and wait for your catch.  

There is a lot of traps in the world and have lots of purposes. Traps were made by the indians to live so they could survive. Most people think that trapping is bad. It is being nicer than shooting the animal (Types of traps). The trap was made to help and make catching easier. The indians needed warmth so they built traps to kill the animal and skin them to wear and be warm. Today there is many different types of traps for different things like the ant traps. The Ant traps have an odor that attracts them and then they die because they get stuck in some glue and stay there and die (Types of Traps).

There are many people who need to learn on how to catch animals with a trap. First you set the trap. Then you put the bait on where the bait goes and cover it up with leaves or something to blend it in (Fur Trapping). Then you wait for a while and maybe go home and come back later. The trap needs to be checked about every 15 to 30 min. Then once you catch the animal you need to gently undo the traps and get the animal out of it once it is dead. There is many hidden traps like the pit trap which is a hole that is covered with leaves and twigs to camouflage it. The snare trap can also be hidden but it is really hard not to move it ( Musgrove).

There are many ways to use traps on many other things in the world. There's so much out in the world to explore and hunt. There is a lot of rules also about trapping like you need to have a licenses.

Work cited

"Get The Facts." Types of Traps. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 May 2016.

"Trapping." MDC Hunting and Fishing. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 May 2016.

Musgrove, Bill, and Gerry Blair. Fur Trapping. New York: Winchester, 1979. Print.