Anyone ever use them? I’m going to try it. I need to boil and wax my traps I used last season and put them up. Don’t want to order just trap dye.
I have never used them due to an abundance of black walnuts
Might have to scratch around for some walnuts. I got half a five gallon bucket full of sumac berries but they’re pretty dry.
I have used sumac it works about the same as walnut hulls. Walnut leaves and bark works good too.
Colt
I have used them and they did fine, it seems like it takes a lot of them but that is probably just because of their size relative to walnut hulls. I think if they are dried you might have better luck reconstituting them in warm water a day or two before you plan on using them but that is just a guess not based on actual experience.
I think you and I are a lot a like in that I like experimenting with stuff that I have read that the old timers did not because I think it will work better than the way I am currently doing something but rather to just learn something new and learn about how our forefathers did things.
I don’t recall if I ever used sumac berries or not, but I have used oak bark , and probably several other types of tree bark chopped off in strips and boiled till it was rolling good. After dropping traps into the tub, I would let the fire cool down slowly overnight . It worked okay back in the day as far as dyeing traps goes.
Had a pm telling me maple bark was good. I know where a soft maple is on the ground. I’ll strip some of it.