Re: coffee filters
[Re: smitty65]
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09/04/18 07:31 AM
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Never used coffee filters but just don't see how they could be very efficient. They are big and they stick together. I have a hard time separating them to make my morning coffee. Can't imagine fighting with them on the line with gloves on.......
Wish I had more time to trap....
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Re: coffee filters
[Re: smitty65]
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09/04/18 09:21 AM
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For summer wolf trapping (for collaring) I've been using unbleached coffee filters for the past 9 years. Perfect size for the MB750-Alaskan traps I'm using. No smell. Quick. No "crinkle". I revert to waxed paper in shoulder seasons and winter when frozen or with freeze/thaw cycles. Also use them in early season coyote and red fox trapping with No. 2 and 3 dogless Monty's. Like 'em.
Jack
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Re: coffee filters
[Re: smitty65]
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09/10/18 06:56 PM
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The Beav
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Get some hamburger patty papers. The ones you use between the burgers when freezing and storing. Or try some of those waxed cup cake forms.
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Re: coffee filters
[Re: smitty65]
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09/10/18 09:16 PM
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I run coffee filters in all conditions. If you use calcium chloride at your set it won't freeze.
I have had more dig outs with wax paper. I buy filters by the 100 and cut them to size. To remove any human or industrial smells from them I leave them in a container filled with dirt, and I store the unused filters in the same manner.
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Re: coffee filters
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09/11/18 12:57 PM
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Get some hamburger patty papers. The ones you use between the burgers when freezing and storing. Or try some of those waxed cup cake forms. The cupcake idea is interesting; perfect size, already crinkled, just tear for dog. Have you used these? The wax paper is the most convenient stuff I've found, cut the new roll in half so that you have two rolls ~trap size, flatten the half rolls so that they stay rolled (actually folded now) and don't roll away, at the set just tear and use like tearing off a paper towel. Keep the flat roll in the bucket of peat or dry dirt, waxed dirt that you use at the set. No fiddling with stuck together precut flustrators. If you need something under the trap, either tear a longer piece and wrap it under or tear another piece. Often the wax paper can be reused on the remake.
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Re: coffee filters
[Re: smitty65]
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09/11/18 05:24 PM
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I've used those cup cake forms for years.
Why would you need to cut down coffee filters? Lay the filter over the dog notch drag It so It makes a hole. set the trap so the dogged jaw pins down the back edge. And tuck the leading edge under the loose jaw. And you can do the same with waxed paper. Cutting a slot for the dog and the pan notch Isn't necessary. I do the same with screen.
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Re: coffee filters
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09/12/18 09:59 AM
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That what happens with screen when you make a continuous cut for the dog . If you just tear a small hole for the dog notch the screen won't move since It's pinned down with the dogged jaw. Try IT makes a difference.
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Re: coffee filters
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09/12/18 10:31 AM
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You guys that use screen do you prefer the steel screen or the fibreglass screen?
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