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Old 01-27-2020, 01:07 PM
slough shark slough shark is offline
 
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I know there’s a few opinions on what to do to prep them, what do you guys do with brand new conibear traps?
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Old 01-27-2020, 01:16 PM
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Put them through the dishwasher set on sanitize and then Speed Dip them.
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Old 01-27-2020, 04:45 PM
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Just used my new ones this year but saying that bought some mid season. Will dip or paint this summer.


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Old 01-28-2020, 10:22 AM
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Boil them with baking soda, rinse water, then hang in a spruce tree for few weeks.
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Old 01-31-2020, 03:48 PM
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We had a boiling barrel, just an old barrel with the top cut out balanced on four rocks. Filled it up with water and as many chopped up willows and skinny poplar branches as we could stuff in, get it boiling and leave it overnight.

Scalded the hair off a quite a few pigs in that same barrel....come to think of it, we might have been hillbillies!
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