[Sca-cooks] Death to Tree Rats! Was Fruit Trees

[Daniel Phelps]

Was written:

> how do you make a wire noose snare?
>

It has been over 30 years since I was shown how but it is pretty simple.
What you want is a flexable piece of steel wire like a fishing leader.  You
bend it into a just over squirrel head sized loop and tie it back on itself
with anyone of several slip knots.  Some premade fishing leaders might not
require anything but bending and clipping back on themselves.  You then lay
a 5 foot or so branch from the ground to the tree at about a 45 degree angle
and attach a number of the nooses about three feet up the branch.   Mr.
Squirrel runs up the branch sticks his head in a noose, keeps on going and
hangs himself.   There was an SCA merchant who used to make pellet firing
crossbows.  Of course you could shoot the beasts with a sling shot/wrist
rocket using ball bearings.  No noise, pretty cheap and not a firearm.  Or
you could Jim Bowie them with a throw knife,  David sling them, Mingo them
with a tomahawk, dart them with a blow gun etc, ... just takes practice.

Daniel