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Post by biscuit on Oct 26, 2012 17:29:58 GMT -5
Hi y'all, I'm born and raised here in south Louisiana (Westbank/Jefferson Parish)and just recently got interested in trapping. I got some land to use and some traps. I have a bunch of rookie questions. Hopefully, some of you guys can help me out. I mostly want to learn how to trap to pass it down to my son.
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Post by marshwalker on Oct 26, 2012 20:09:23 GMT -5
welcome aboard biscuit!! i'm from Jefferson parish too on the westbank...
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Post by lacoonazz32 on Oct 27, 2012 9:13:04 GMT -5
Welcome there's alot of fine veteran trappers on this site that can answer any question you have
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Post by biscuit on Oct 31, 2012 9:57:51 GMT -5
Thanks fellas, I just got two dozen #11's and want to know how to prepare them after degreasing. Do we dye and wax traps down here? A few guys I've talked to said soak them in rain water?
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Post by marshwalker on Oct 31, 2012 10:35:51 GMT -5
Soaking them in water was the way everyone around here used to do it... but being we are so close to the season starting, i'm not sure if you'll have enough time for them to take like that.... go gather up some dried oak tree leaves and twigs... get you a big pot or drum and boil the oak leaves and twigs up until the water turns black... then sit your traps in that concoction for a couple hours and that'll do the trick... if they are new traps, they won't turn black on the first go round... but they will turn a dull gray look....
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Post by marshwalker on Oct 31, 2012 10:37:18 GMT -5
another thing you can do, that seems to be popular now a days, is to rust your traps... just hang them up outside or set them in the yard and water them a couple times a day until there is surface rust all over them... then do the process that I spoke of earlier....
If you don't want to mess with the oak leaves, you can order some logwood dye or speed dip off of one of the trapping supply stores.
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Post by biscuit on Oct 31, 2012 21:16:07 GMT -5
I'm going to try the logwood dye. What about waxing? By the way, thanks for entertaining my questions.
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Post by lacoonazz32 on Oct 31, 2012 21:26:05 GMT -5
What I did with mine was they started rusting up so put them I'm a bucket of vinegar took every spec of rust of. Then just spray painted them a natural color did it far enough in advance that it left no smell and caught animals with them so it works fine.
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Post by biscuit on Nov 1, 2012 11:12:16 GMT -5
Thanks lacoonazz, I have near a dozen old rusty victors im going to try the vinegar on. Probably wont paint any for this season but I will try that, at least with a couple of them, for next season. Im thinking dead grass green or something close.
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Post by lacoonazz32 on Nov 1, 2012 19:53:56 GMT -5
Let them soak as long as needed. I found an old beaver trap along a canal bank one day it just had a piece of chain sticking out of ground pulled it up it was just a rectangle block of solid rust. It had been there for years!!!! Soaked it about 5 days in vinegar it was back to working condition. Rust free, springs are to weak to used but sure does look cool hanging in my shed.
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Post by marshrat on Nov 4, 2012 13:52:24 GMT -5
We always soaked our traps in waste oil and would pull them out about a month in advance and let the elements wash away the excess oil. Never had an issue with animals shying away from the traps, although we always had water sets.
Warren
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Post by biscuit on Nov 11, 2012 18:56:35 GMT -5
Well, I got my four dozen traps degreased, rusted, derusted, and dyed using degreaser,vinegar and water, and liquid dye concentrate. The old ones came out great and the new ones took pretty good. Hopefully, next year they'll take better. So I figure ill make some nutria sets and a coon set. I plan on using pocket sets and attractants for the coon. Any tips on nutria trap placement after i locate a run? Im also wondering what type of stakes to use. Any suggestions?
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