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Paiute Deadfall Trap
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Posted on 07/01/2014 1:30:42 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion

Paiute Deadfall Trap

The Paiute is a very quick trigger mechanism. It is also fairly easy to set. Unlike the Figure-4 trigger, it uses cordage. Examine the photos carefully and you will get an idea of how this trigger works.

The bait is placed on a long thin horizontal bait stick. This bait stick is held at both ends by friction. When the bait stick is moved, it slips off of the short trigger stick that the cordage is tied to (wrapped around the vertical stick). This allows the weight to fall. Be careful to place the deadfall so that it does not land on the vertical stick.

It is advisable to place the vertical stick on a flat stone. This will allow the vertical stick to fall out of the way as the weight falls (in the photo below, it will fall to the left).

[If interested, I commend the website to you to see photos of how this effective trap is created. You should consider bookmarking this...]

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Food; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: food; survival; trapping
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1 posted on 07/01/2014 1:30:42 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Lots of other great stuff on this website...


2 posted on 07/01/2014 1:31:13 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

eating bushmeat is not a smart thing to do.


3 posted on 07/01/2014 1:35:42 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: RitchieAprile

“eating bushmeat is not a smart thing to do.”

What exactly are your objections to eating ‘bushmeat’ as you call it? Have you hunted or trapped much?


4 posted on 07/01/2014 1:38:30 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: RitchieAprile

>> eating bushmeat is not a smart thing to do.

OTOH, starving to death when game is plentiful seems kinda mentally deficient to me.


5 posted on 07/01/2014 1:42:03 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Remeniscient of Les Stroud “Survivorman” using this identical trap on one of his shows to totally squish a ratty looking ground squirrel. Can you say overkill? He then proceeded to hang it over a fire and try to scorch the hair off it. One of the funniest and grossest of his shows. :-)


6 posted on 07/01/2014 1:42:24 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: dljordan

I do not hunt or trap at all. Wild animals carry disease
and disease laden parasites, which I would just as soon avoid.


7 posted on 07/01/2014 1:42:57 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: RitchieAprile

As opposed to meat from animals pumped full of antibiotics and steroids? lol


8 posted on 07/01/2014 1:42:58 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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I eat meat from animals that have had no drugs, that were fed natural feed, and had chamber music played for them
during their lives.


9 posted on 07/01/2014 1:44:43 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: RitchieAprile

Also... not sure what passes for culinary best practice on YOUR planet, but here on MY planet, we use this thing called “heat” to (as we put it) “cook” that “bush meat”.

This “cooking” (forgive me if it seems odd to you!) not only improves the flavor of our “bush meat”, but also kills these little things called “germs” that can make us what we call “sick”.


10 posted on 07/01/2014 1:45:36 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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this does not kill virii (hanta and ebola are two examples), nor does it prevent the infection during the preparation stage.


11 posted on 07/01/2014 1:47:25 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: RitchieAprile

>> I eat meat from animals that have had no drugs, that were fed natural feed, and had chamber music played for them
during their lives.

I see that in Washington State, y’all knock off work and start smoking dope around noon, local time.

I’m jealous. No happy hour here until I quit work at about 5 or 6 PM. How do y’all afford it? Federal aid?


12 posted on 07/01/2014 1:50:15 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: RitchieAprile

IOWs animals that are just as vulnerable to parasites and infection as wild animals. LOL


13 posted on 07/01/2014 1:50:53 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: RitchieAprile

chamber music played for them
during their lives.

Stop yer killin me.

Like Kobe beef, fed beer and massaged with gin.


14 posted on 07/01/2014 1:53:25 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Nervous Tick

It appears you lack a counter argument, and so revert to ridicule as a substitute.

Typical maneuver in Elvis Country apparently...


15 posted on 07/01/2014 1:54:19 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I could never get those things to work unless I shot the little bugger first and then threw him in there. Which sort of misses the point of the whole thing, I guess, unless you’re after squirrel pancakes.


16 posted on 07/01/2014 1:54:35 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: RitchieAprile

Tell you what: you eat your brown rice and sunflower seeds, wear your hemp loincloth, beat your man-drum, and wish you had the balls to eat REAL food.

I’m gonna skip all that and head straight for the real food.

By the way, all that silly anxiety over nothing is bad for your health. Did you know that?


17 posted on 07/01/2014 1:55:23 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; ...

Preppers’ PING!!


18 posted on 07/01/2014 1:56:26 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: RitchieAprile

I don’t mind a few pathogens. I like to think of it as giving my immune system a little exercise. When it sees one, I want it to go “Here, kitty kitty kitty!”, not “OMG! WTF is THAT?”


19 posted on 07/01/2014 1:57:56 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: RitchieAprile

I don’t need a counter argument to counter your vacuous argument.

And I didn’t “revert” to ridicule; I carefully selected it from my quiver-full o’ rhetorical weapons as it was appropriate for THIS job!

Roll yourself another big ol’ doobie and ponder that.


20 posted on 07/01/2014 1:58:19 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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