My students have recently been able to carry out some bushcraft tasks related to their studies of practical estate skills, game bird production and green woodwork. Over the last couple of weeks they have made several functioning pheasant traps of the sort that would have been used by game keepers to catch pheasants for breeding purposes, nowadays keepers normally use large catchers made of steel mesh or adapted partridge pens with which they can catch dozens of birds at a time. The traps the…
