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.
In the unstressed state, the two brackets stand side by side upright and perpendicular to the spring.
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
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
- ↑ Numßen, p. 152; Haseder, p. 730