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Your videos are shorter, clearer and far more informative than similar videos produced by others. You have natural ability as an instructor my friend.

👍 Greetings from a Belgian bushcrafter

Best one so far.

This one's great! I have seen others setting this trap up, but requiring some notches and stuff. Using the "hooks" on the poles to hold cross bars in place is ingenious and makes this much less fiddly and time consuming.

Showing the trap in use at the beginning motivated me to watch the entire video.

Funny thing: we had a mouse in our house. We could see his path and knew his pattern but he always seemed to dodge every trap we set for him. Finally, I took a tip from what I had learned from some of the trapping videos I have watched and decided to create a funnel using (of all things) a couple of pool noodles. Mr. Mouse was caught the very evening I set the trap. Narrowing the path of your prey is essential to success.

Thank you for the information.

Great demonstration

Nice 👍

The "platform" becomes a "treadle". Nice going.

Nice explanations.

Nice. I hadn’t seen this one before. I like that with a bit of knowledge and practice and a bit of ingenuity you could build a lot of these in very little time.

Good trap, brother and an excellent demonstration!

Love that Brooklyn accent. Next time, use white or colorful cordage so that it shows up better against the forest colors. The platform is a "treadle", because it moves when pressure is applied. Platforms are structures which don't ordinarily move.

Tyvm

Well done! Especially like you showing the knots being used on larger hi-vis cordage. That should be mandatory on vids involving cordage, especially snares. Skeeter season soon, but such is life in the South. ATB!

Another cool trap technique Matt! 👍🏼

I've been waiting on your next video, as usual I was not disappointed. Great job.

loving this series Matt. I know that this could be modified as well for catching fish near the waters edge. exchange the loop for a hook and run it out into the water. Appreciate this series a lot. Great job, great presentation!

Good vid Brother

New to your channel... very informative. Thank you for sharing. Bless

I'm new at this type of stuff , but I'm learning slow to perfectly to no in what to do in when stuff hits the fan in survival thanks on the video sir . Be safe out there God bless u .

Excellent video. Thanks!

super nice...!!! Nice chamfered stobs.....attention to detail....!!

I like the idea and look forward to trying this. Thanks for the share of knowledge.

Nice..... I learned a new trap and a knot..........

a very nice trap. I like the noose knot you use. Not a knot I have ever use, will have to try it out.

Thank you another great video ,,, I also liked that you pointed out primitive trapping should only be used for real survival as it is illegal almost everywhere in the world

Knowledge is power and like always praise the Lord Jesus daily

Thanks for the video. I was wondering when you are going to finish your navigation series? I believe the next video was called making the map.

Hey, this is the exact type of snare my grandfather,father, and great uncles use! They’re from west Myanmar and all learned to trap game as young boys and now experts. They used this snare except in a way bigger version. My grandfather has sent me photos of muntjac deer he snared hanging from the limbs! They prefer to make these snares right before rainstorm, to destroy the human scent since animals there are super skittish. My grandfather has caught sun bear, lots of deer, and some asian golden cats. However, my great uncle was even more successful. He snared 2 tigers on the late 80s as well as a leopard. Anyways, very cool video.And how’d you learn to make this snare?

I like it! Do I spy a scissor trap frame off your right knee?

id do ione thing different i'd use the potchers snare]

Has your hat been Mercerized?

Son, what are you planning to trap with that? Cause no animal I know will get in that thing? No bait, no concelment, no attractant, there is just no draw to get an animal to step on elevated sticks. Also your trigger is not sensitive enough. It won't even pass for a trail set. To obvious. Now if you got cordage, a spring snare can work as a passing trail set. That seems to be what this started out as. But animals are like Democrats, you got to offer them a free lunch to draw them in. First, study edible plants. Plants are nailed to the ground and can't out run you :) But to take an animal in a trap takes more than just owning a trap! Trapping is just like business, location location location :) Let's say some mentally retarded, drunk racoon stumbled around and stuck his foot in that thing. How you gonna kill him? Remember you got him by the foot, not the neck. You hang him up all night by the foot, he is NOT gonna be sociable HEHEHE!