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Post by Sunshine on Aug 5, 2007 18:13:15 GMT -5
How many of you dip or otherwise treat your snares?
Do you treat the lead cable if youre using one?
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Post by Earl8656 on Aug 5, 2007 18:23:29 GMT -5
Sometimes we boul our snares in the same solution we die our traps in; but, the best, IMHO is Newt's F-1 dip. i treat nothing but the snares themselves.
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Post by bill1306 on Aug 5, 2007 18:25:36 GMT -5
I spray paint the snares with a light tan color paint, a very thin coat, so it won't slow the snare down. I never paint the lead cable, I want to be able to see it to help me find the snare. Once I paint the snares it is hard for the animal to see them and if the animals can't see them, I sure can't either.
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Post by nutoy on Aug 6, 2007 11:55:13 GMT -5
Sometimes we boul our snares in the same solution we die our traps in; but, the best, IMHO is Newt's F-1 dip. i treat nothing but the snares themselves. I'm with earl. I used to boil my snares in dye after I finished doing my traps. After a few years I started having snares broken/busted and started noticing it was my older, dyed snares. Untwisting the cable revealed the culprit,,,, Corrosion and rust. The dye was not getting into the inner cable allowing it to corrode. Boiling in baking soda also removes the factory oils from the inner cable allowing corrosion. Since I started dipping in a thinned down F-1 I havn't had a snare break from corrosion or rusting. If you want the camo effect, roll up the snares, dip half in one color, dip the other half in different color. Waaa Laaa, camo'd snare.
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Post by Earl8656 on Aug 6, 2007 12:08:19 GMT -5
Good suggestion, Nutoy!
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Post by ADC on Aug 6, 2007 12:27:54 GMT -5
Here's a copy of what I wrote on another post here...
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Post by nutoy on Aug 6, 2007 15:37:03 GMT -5
I read that after I posted my reply to this post. I sure could have saved me a bunch of typing. LOL Good info there Jayme, great minds think alike. ;D
What I did forget to add was I also F-1 all my extension, cable stakes, ALL cable that is going to be used to hold a animal in any way. Our soil around here has a low ph(acidic soil) and it's he double hockey sticks on galvanized cable. I heard of some folks leaving cable stakes in the ground and reusing them from year to year. Do that around here with untreated cable and by the second year and you'll most likely have a slight catch circle and no trap.
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Post by Sunshine on Aug 7, 2007 23:17:33 GMT -5
ty guys
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Post by cattrax on Aug 9, 2007 17:02:43 GMT -5
I do mine like Bill1306, the only difference is after I spray them the tan color I will streak them with some green and brown, just like Bill said very thinly, and then leave them outside for 2 weeks before I use them.
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