"At this point setting up traps becomes a pretty subtle. Its a huge topic!

Your trap triggers can be anything starting with a simple tripwire to a booby-trapped double blind danger or an irresistible lure.
To take the last, seeing a box of shotgun shells apparently dropped in haste would attract the attention of a certain type of target, while grannies, children and animals would ignore it. And not try to pick up the weighted empty box on it's pressure plate trigger. . . .

See where this is going? like I say big topic that's often overlooked by firearms enthusiasts.
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"At this point setting up traps becomes a pretty subtle. Its a huge topic!

Your trap triggers can be anything starting with a simple tripwire to a booby-trapped double blind danger or an irresistible lure.
To take the last, seeing a box of shotgun shells apparently dropped in haste would attract the attention of a certain type of target, while grannies, children and animals would ignore it. And not try to pick up the weighted empty box on it's pressure plate trigger. . . .

See where this is going? like I say big topic that's often overlooked by firearms enthusiasts.
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"I'm sorry, you've never been around a child for an extended period of time, have you? They will examine everything and anything, and I promise if your trap kills a child, there will be a lynch mob in your damn camp.

If you see a random, potentially valuable object on the ground, you will examine it. Basic human nature. If you are going to employ any kind of trap, everyone in the party has to be aware of exactly what it is - but even then, how are you going to keep the very young aware of it? Can you keep people out of dangerous ares 100%?

And, again, are you seriously going to kill random people who could potentially be useful members of your group? This isn't the Korean peninsula. There aren't enough North Koreans to justify a no-man's land in a random settlement, are there?"

"I'm over 50 years old of course I've 'been around' children.

The nearest child to my location is about 15 miles away as the crow flies. This child will have to get down 5 miles of county road. Ford the river ('cos the bridge is the first thing to go!) and start climbing the ex-track.

This former track with a little judicious blocking of some (very expensive) drains will be a stream or possibly a river depending on the time of year.

A couple of miles and nearly a thousand feet of that and the child or anyone else will find the track has gone, down the mountainside it was cut and blasted out of.

Anyone child or otherwise who is still not taking the f**king hint will be then entering an area that is seriously hazardous.

No this isn't the Korea, as far as I'm given to understand Korea is quite a hospitable part of the world. This is the part of the world where guerrillas evaded Franco's soldiers for years, going on decades!
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"Nobody... But on the other hand the vast majority of women I've known who owned their own shotgun that they purchased for themselves and use on any sort of regular basis, would shoot you in the face with said shotgun if you called them a Yankee."