If you are facing a survival situation, finding food is a pretty major priority and one way of doing that is to trap wild game.

Game is a great source of vitamins and protein as well as calories, which you will need in abundance in any survival situation because of the physical labor it takes to get through just one day.

Chances are, however, that if you are facing this type of situation, you do not have top of the line trapping tools at your avail, which means you have to make your own.

There are many different type of dead-fall traps and snares, but the model shown here is about the simplest to make and because it relies on tension to hold it together it would seem to be highly reliable.

The video on the next page shows you how to make this very simple, but effective dead-fall trap with a split-stick dead-fall triggering mechanism.

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