Today in Australia, traditional trapping with leg hold traps is about as obscure to society as the best laid trap is to a rabbit’s eye. Even among hunters, trapping has vanished from view with the vast majority focusing their hunting attention down the barrels of shotguns and through riflescopes. Some people even think trapping is illegal; yet in most states it is not.
It is true that trapping regulations are more complex and restrictive than they used to be in the days of the old traditional rabbit traps with their non-forgiving steel jaws. These days, we have jaws lined with rubber and
