Prepping Snares

[ILUVTRAPPING]

Looking for different ideas on prepping snares particularly for wolves. I boil mine in Bicarb of Soda then chuck that water out and reboil/simmer them in Logwood Dye and willow bark for 5-6 hours. If the ferules or camlocks are even a bit shiny I just spraypaint ONLY that particular part with a flat finish Tremclad ("Oregano" color)

[McLeod Valley]

Try using the white speed dip , but for wolves mix it in white gas and do it in the early fall and hang outside till winter snaring season.
If this is not posible I use a good lot of baking soda and water in my snare pot and let soak for a couple days , the cable takes on a dull grey apearance and looses its shine.

[crabtree]

I've always used lye to remove the grease and oil from the snares, the mix I use is aprox. 1 cup lye to 4 gal water. Stir lye into cold water put in snares and then bring to a simmer untill you no longer see oil & grease rising to the top. Then go ahead and dye - I use willow and black poplar buds. Watch the lye it is vary toxic! will burn skin. handle snares with metal hook.

[KegRiver]

I haven't done a lot of Coyote snaring, and next to no Wolf snaring.
But I've had around 90% success with the snares I have set.

All I ever do to prepare snares is to hang them in a spruce or pine tree for a month or more before setting them out.

I never boil or wax snares.

The way I figure it, Coyotes and Fox, ( I have never snared a Wolf ) encounter metal and oil several times a day, typically.
So those scents will not alarm them so much as the combination of fresh, human, steel, and oil combined.
Age any one or combination of those scents and Coyote and Fox will pay them very little attention.

Just think of all the oil dripped from Cars, trucks and farm machinery. Nuts, bolts, nails and other steel spread across every farmers field and along every highway.

Is such scents alarmed any of the wild Dogs they would avoid all human activity. They don't do they? Tells a person something I think. And it seems to be true.

[Bushmaster]

I've never set a snare for wolves but I have snared quite a few coyotes. I always boiled them in baking soda for a bit to remove the oil and dull them down....never painted a snare, as I saw no need for it.