Trap dye the natural way

Walnuts are dropping now and I’m going to build a fire under the old dye barrel this weekend. Who else likes the smell of woodsmoke and hot walnuts?

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It’s an amazing smell always congers up memories
Colt

Only way I have ever done it. I wait for them to get good and rotted then putt the hulls in an onion sack in the half barrel.

I don’t have many walnuts this year. Last year I had a few pick up loads.

I know where three trees are. None are loaded but I can get enough to do the job I think

The smell of woodsmoke and walnut hulls boiling, along with a little castor, mink, and gray fox gland mixed together in the same bottle would probably have me rooting my head across the ground, and slobbering at the mouth! LOL!

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I have over a hundred traps in the barrel. Going to fire her up after while. Stacey’s going to sit with me. She likes to tend fire.


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Objects in photo, my belly, are smaller than they appear :grin:

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How do you treat your cables?

Last year I had a real thin green latex paint mix, real thin, I dipped them in. They turned out an olive sort of color. These are the extension cables. I’m not qualified to recommend on snares really but I lightly rattle can sprayed mine.