Bridger #5 and the MB 750 are good choices. Both are made in a wolf style with heavy chain ,lamination and base plates. There also others that are built for the wolf just depends on your budget. I have had incidental catches with Bridger #3's which held them but they chew and can destroy a trap that's not built for them.

I use flagging ribbon tied to a limb or fence wire in the general area. With talk of snow and wind all the time I snapped my sets long while back so not having to deal with it.

Thanks for picking me as your winner. I'm pretty sure I don't want or need all that wealth transfer. Good Lord!

Fair enough, but I have gland lures I bought from others that are 2 and 3 years ago that do not have this happening. I can only figure I obviously lack something in my formulation to keep this from happening. Does anything prevent this darkening or do I need to handle it differently to avoid the color change?

I stay away from all Liberal controlled states.

If you're going to drain your lines:

Some folks down around the lake here that have summer cabins only use them in the summer.
They have a air fitting plumbed into the water line at the well. Shut the well down then hook up an air compressor to that air fitting and blow all the water out of the lines. Works good.

Disagree! $2 in 1972 would buy a lot more than $3 will buy now!

It would take approx. $15 today to buy what $2 would buy in 1972.

I loaned my meat grinder to one of the guys in my deer hunting group. He's family. Did that for a couple of years with no problems. Then I loaned it out to him one year and it didn't come back. I finally texted him and told him I needed it back. He brought it back when I was gone to work. The first time I went to use it, I found the blade had a tip broken off, a gouge in the auger and a gouge in the housing. I imagine he or one of his kids dropped a bone or a slug into it. Stuff happens but man up and tell me about it. I texted him and he didn't reply. He sent $20 with no note. I returned the money and decided to never loan it out again. The following year, he wanted to borrow it. I told him that someone else was using it. He hasn't asked again.

He showed up at deer camp with 3 of his kids this year. We always try to figure out the first morning how many deer we need because we always have extra tags due to landowner tags. When he was asked, he said he didn't want any. His sister asked what he was doing there if he didn't want any deer. He didn't have anything to say. Two of his kids ended up shooting deer and he ended up taking them. I didn't understand why he thought it was okay to fill other people's tags instead of letting them shoot their own deer.

All we have are big tough fox squirrels, I think I'll start using my skinning machine.

They’re a hoot to catch, I hate putting them up though

Vinke doesn't wear pants much either, I think he's more of a kilt guy.

when i make hay sets its in Jan and Feb the hay i like to use is from are re-hab kennels clean out which is a mix of rabbits an coon
when im looking to place the set i try to find a brushy intersections and shy away from the wide open fields where i live if you set in the wide open you can have a couple feet of snow over your set in half a day
i like to use fresh rabbit and urine with straight gland i will try to dig somewhat of a hole or just pin the chopped up rabbit to the ground then cover with the hay(2ft high or less) i like to set 2 traps at each pile where
using a larger trap at these sets is a very good idea you should have at least one trap covering the down wind side
i chop out 2 beds just enough to keep the traps semi level with the ground and place dry hay in the beds to rest the traps on i use gutter spikes to pin the trap solid to the ground (this is refered to as power-bedding) once the trap is set i will use
one spike on each end of the base plate and tap in that in such away will pin the traps solid as they rest on the hay in the bed and for smaller traps you lift up the weak jaw and tap a spile down in flush so that the jaw rests on the
head of the nail making it rock solid as far as cover i like to use the smaller bits of hay chaff so when the traps fire the larger pieces wont get in the way the gland goes in near the rabbit and urine on top of the hay
if i have sometime i will try to take some pictures i hope this will help good luck the rest of the season