Bushcraft and Survival Skills

Survival Bow Trap

• A survival bow trap is dangerous to man as well as animals, use and construct with extreme caution!
• To construct this trap, build a bow and anchor it to the ground with pegs.
• Adjust the aiming point as you anchor the bow. Lash a toggle stick to the trigger stick.
• Two upright sticks driven into the ground hold the trigger stick in place at a point where the toggle stick will engage the pulled bow string.
• Place a catch stick between the toggle stick and a stake driven into the ground.
• Tie a trip wire or cordage to the catch stick and route it around stakes and across the game trail where you tie it off.
• When the prey trips the trip wire, the bow will fire an arrow into it.
• A notch in the bow serves to help aim the arrow.