Comments on: Preparing My 220 Conibear Traps http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/preparing-my-220-conibear-traps/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: otter http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/preparing-my-220-conibear-traps/#comment-183993 otter Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:34:31 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/preparing-my-220-conibear-traps/#comment-183993 Leave the traps out to rust before you boil them in the dye. Once you do start the boiling process you must boil them for a good long while to get them to dye. If you ever decide to use footholds you will discover the usefulness of the traps drying almost instantly. Good luck! Also an easy way of setting them off without getting your face bit is by stepping on them and lifting your boot up slowly. Your metal tongs can be dangerous so be careful with those, its better to use your hands if you know how to set them safely, if your not strong enough use a combination of hands and feet to open them. Leave the traps out to rust before you boil them in the dye. Once you do start the boiling process you must boil them for a good long while to get them to dye. If you ever decide to use footholds you will discover the usefulness of the traps drying almost instantly. Good luck!

Also an easy way of setting them off without getting your face bit is by stepping on them and lifting your boot up slowly. Your metal tongs can be dangerous so be careful with those, its better to use your hands if you know how to set them safely, if your not strong enough use a combination of hands and feet to open them.

]]> By: Urban Scout http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/preparing-my-220-conibear-traps/#comment-37434 Urban Scout Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:51:45 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/preparing-my-220-conibear-traps/#comment-37434 Yeah, I'm looking out for cats. I have a cage trap for the urban spots and the conibears are for the national forest. Yeah, I’m looking out for cats. I have a cage trap for the urban spots and the conibears are for the national forest.

]]> By: anonymama http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/preparing-my-220-conibear-traps/#comment-37431 anonymama Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:37:52 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/preparing-my-220-conibear-traps/#comment-37431 I haven't read the whole series on this--have you considered that you may also catch cats if you are using that in Portland? That would rather suck. Here in Eugene I live in a part of town where 1/2 acre lots are the norm, and we have a ton of raccoon activity. While I didn't like them preying on my chickens, I would never trap them because I have a 50% chance of trapping some kid's pet cat. My brother ran a trap line when we were growing up in Alaska--I don't remember him soaking his traps at all, and there was no black walnut husk to speak of. They do use some "scent" thing that would mask human scent. I haven’t read the whole series on this–have you considered that you may also catch cats if you are using that in Portland? That would rather suck.

Here in Eugene I live in a part of town where 1/2 acre lots are the norm, and we have a ton of raccoon activity. While I didn’t like them preying on my chickens, I would never trap them because I have a 50% chance of trapping some kid’s pet cat.

My brother ran a trap line when we were growing up in Alaska–I don’t remember him soaking his traps at all, and there was no black walnut husk to speak of. They do use some “scent” thing that would mask human scent.

]]> By: Mark http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/preparing-my-220-conibear-traps/#comment-35043 Mark Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:10:03 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/preparing-my-220-conibear-traps/#comment-35043 Why dont you just soak 'em in some saltwater if you want them to rust? Maybe I don't get it. Why dont you just soak ‘em in some saltwater if you want them to rust? Maybe I don’t get it.

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