Wilderness Survival Skills: Hunting and Trapping Animals  Learn
how to track and trap small animals. Tutorials include how to
set up a snare, a figure-4 deadfall and a Paiute deadfall.
March/April 1982 Clockwise from left: The "business end" of the
very effective rolling snare. The trigger mechanism. The
figure-4 deadfall. The figure-4 upper notch. The figure-4 lower
joint. (Note that the components just barely mesh. This kind of
assembly makes for a sensitive trigger) Detail of the Paiute
deadfall's trigger. The complete, ready-to-drop trap. It's best
to be cautious when setting the rolling snare.   Tom Brown, Jr.
was brought up in the ways of the woods by a displaced Apache
named Stalking Wolf. Today, he is one of our country's leading
outdoor authorities, author of The Tracker and The Search, and
head of the largest tracking and wilderness survival school in
the U.S. Tom has also agreed to do a series of special features
for MOTHER EARTH NEWS, articles that will help all of us learn
how to survive — in com