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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JMF" data-source="post: 35123" data-attributes="member: 869">The plastic tubing is for sliding over 9 or 11 gauge wire on a snare support. You can buy these in metal as well but they are specific to cable size and wire size. With the plastic ones I can push them over multiple size wire and they hold nice and tight. I bought a 100' roll from McMaster Car that is rated to 100 below for $20 to my door.  That's enough to last a lifetime.Theory behind kill springs:An ordinary snare with a lock can be set to kill, or to hold an animal alive. What kills the animal is continuous applied force to the cable around its neck. Entanglement is used to apply this force, gravity being the force on the cable that kills. A lock does not kill the animal, a lock only prevents the loop from opening. When a coyote pulls the snare tight the blood is cut off to the brain from the constricted arteries and the animal passes out. If it is tangled when this happens, gravity from the weight of the animal maintains the force on the wire and the animal dies quickly. If there is no entanglement, the animal passes out and there is no force applied to the wire, it will come to and will not do that again, instead it will start chewing etc. With a kill spring, when the coyote lunges he compresses the spring and the spring applies constant pressure tightening the cable, and quickly dispatches the animal. This is why you see coyotes laying dead in a snare with a kill spring and the cable is not tight between the anchor point and the animal, and no sign of struggle or disturbance. It is very easy to tell if an animal has been killed quickly when you skin it there will be no edema in the head, and very little disturbance at the catch site.</blockquote>

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