Scent? (rubber gloves, rubber boots)

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Oklahunter

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I am new to trapping and I am wondering if you wear rubber gloves and rubber boots when making your sets? Do you have any other tips for scent control? Thank you.
 
in my honest oppion, the most in important thing is to have clean traps, the rest is trivial. your never going to make a set and not tell a K9 that you wasn't there. it takes about 24 hours for your sent to disperse, then after that your good to go as long as your traps are clean, if your trapping water,(coons,mink,muskrats and beavers,) then scent control isnt important at all, if your trapping coons on land, its not a problem either, but I feel its not a problem around here where I trap for K9's, I just go and make my sets on travel ways and I don't wear rubber gloves, and all that other stuff,

look at it this way, its just more things you have to carry. and a good trapper goes as light as he can. now if your out west and are trapping areas that doesn't have a lot of human activaty, then it might be important to use that stuff, but here in Ohio, I dont think it is, since the yotes will follow your steps in the snow to see what you was up to. good luck and happy trapping.
 
I'd say Jeff is right on the money. I do use gloves and boots but still rarely catch a canine on the first night. You leave scent regardless and in my area it must be a little too much on the first night. All of my records show the 2nd night as my best results. I must stink a bit.
 
I do wear my gloves and boots just good reg. hunting gloves and boots. But I'm that one who always ends up putting on hand right on a thorn of some sort, every time I open the lure/bait I some how get it all over my hands, or anything else goofy I get into. My boots just cause my Nikes/heels don't work so well but they are snake proof ...I'm a mess but it's so much fun! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
heres another tip for ya, if your going to use gloves, get 2 pairs, one for only making sets, and one pair for baiting and luring and other stuff, that way you wont contaminate your traps or equipment by only haveing one pair of gloves to wear.

PrairieMuffin, can we see a pic of you trapping in Heels /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif just joking,

WV, one of these season, I want to come over there and run a trap line with you for cats and grays,(if you got them) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
all depends on the canines... each and every one of them is different..

too many factors to discuss.....

caught them where i didn't ever figure i would... also did everything "right" and couldn't get em... haha
 
Jeff-Cats and greys are here. The greys seem to be on the decrease though. I don't get out much these days because of work but I always take at least one week off to trap. You'd be welcome.
 
PrairieMuffin, can we see a pic of you trapping in Heels /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif just joking

Hahahaha! That's too funny!! Thanks for the laugh this morning I needed one! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

I wear my gloves gathering/digging around I take them off to actually set the trap itself...I'd prolly get a muffin finger if I didn't. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
WV, we'll try to plan something for next year

Muffin your welcome /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif but I still want to see a pic.

In my honest oppinion, to trap K9's successfully you have to think out side of the box most of the time /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
 
I dress for the conditions, clean leather gloves for setting, I would set bare handed, but it is hard on skin and I prefer to keep as much dirt off my hands as I can. You can't hide from them that you were there, I see most catches after 3-6 days. Don't worry about body or hand scent, as long as it isn't gasoline, bacon or something like that. Make a natural looking set, do it with out a lot of time involved, bed it solid, pan 8-12" from hole or lure.
 
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I would set bare handed, but it is hard on skin




In my neck of da woods it gits purty chilly. I set bare hands and if I touch snow and my hands get wet, then fingers freeze to the trap in as little as it takes to set it. Kinda feels like the sticky side of duct tape. The more you hold on the stickier it gets...

Tried gloves but could not keep lure off them and got stinky in a jiffy. Tried disposable latex gloves, but with temps in the single digits they get brittle and break.
Will try the two pair approach see how that works.
 
I use two pair of cotten gloves (the real purty gardening kind with the nubby fingers /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Why don't they make more womans glove sizes /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif) Point is one pair is for setting, they stay in the trap box with lots of sagebrush. The second pair is for baiting/luring. They stay in the "stink box" with the lure, etc. If I start getting some trap digging I get new setting gloves. One think about the bright garden gloves is you don't get confused as to which pair is for what. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Most of my catches are around day 4-7 of a set. Corse I have to also deal with having extra scent spread by my 1 year old son, who goes with me and likes to beat the bushes and play in the dirt around me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
Now that the winter is almost over and my hands are frost-bitten I would prolly skip the hot pink gloves for the rest of the season (we only have until March, and 20*F feels almost like beach weather /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif).
 


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