Berliner Eisen (hunting)

The Berliner Eisen , also known as the gooseneck , is a trap that is used to catch predators . The trap consists of a ring-shaped construction in which two semicircular brackets are connected to one another by a spring.

Unstressed iron

In the unstressed state, the two brackets stand side by side upright and perpendicular to the spring.

Tense iron

When tensioned, they lie horizontally and are held in place by a lock, the so-called position. The spring is released via a thread that is connected to the position through which the trigger tube (the so-called whistle) runs and carries the bait . By pulling the bait, the stirrups ideally hit the neck of the animal and kill it instantly. This type of trap is therefore also called pull -off. Simply entering the trap by an animal should not trigger it, in order to prevent the painful trapping of only the limbs, as is possible with leghold traps, for example .

See also

• Animal trap
• To be removed

literature

• Julia Numßen : Handbook hunter language , all technical terms from A - Z compactly explained, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8354-1728-1
• Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaur's large hunting dictionary . Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 1996, (Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 2000) ISBN 3-8289-1579-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Numßen, p. 152; Haseder, p. 730