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lure #6353890
10/22/18 04:07 PM
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Recently while attending a convention I got to talking with a lure maker from southern Indiana,he said one of the best lures he used was a combination of equal parts of mink glands,beaver castor and rat glands.So I made some up,I take it that this formula is well known,easy to put together.Anybody used this formula?Maybe a little trout oil or a drop or two of tonquin?

Re: lure [Re: rodneyb] #6353894
10/22/18 04:10 PM
10/22/18 04:10 PM
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Equal parts mink, rotten down rat glands and beaver sac ground, then a touch of castor is what I do.

Re: lure [Re: rodneyb] #6353938
10/22/18 05:44 PM
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I make some with castor and without all fixed, fresh ground.


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Re: lure [Re: rodneyb] #6353956
10/22/18 05:58 PM
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In my humble opinion, if you're adding equal parts of castor to anything, after a while you'll just have castor (especially when combined with traditionally mild odors like rat glands).

Re: lure [Re: Lazarus] #6354016
10/22/18 07:18 PM
10/22/18 07:18 PM
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That will sure be true to the human nose-- but it will not be to the animal nose. Just think about how dogs can separate drug smells inside gas tanks.Animals can detect other smells from even the strongest odor ,like a dog getting sprayed right in the face by a skunk,and a couple of minutes later it will be trailing a coon. I've had this happen many times when coon hunting. That strong skunk smell does not stop a dog or hinder it in any way from scenting a coon or any thing else.So it is pretty obvious a human nose can only pick up one powerful odor but that is not so with animals.Most lure makers don't seem to understand this either,but this is one of the very basics a lure maker should grasp when starting out making trap lures.Human noses,and the odors they can detect are completely different from animal noses,and the odors they can detect.

Re: lure [Re: gibstar] #6354099
10/22/18 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted By: gibstar
That will sure be true to the human nose-- but it will not be to the animal nose. Just think about how dogs can separate drug smells inside gas tanks.Animals can detect other smells from even the strongest odor ,like a dog getting sprayed right in the face by a skunk,and a couple of minutes later it will be trailing a coon. I've had this happen many times when coon hunting. That strong skunk smell does not stop a dog or hinder it in any way from scenting a coon or any thing else.So it is pretty obvious a human nose can only pick up one powerful odor but that is not so with animals.Most lure makers don't seem to understand this either,but this is one of the very basics a lure maker should grasp when starting out making trap lures.Human noses,and the odors they can detect are completely different from animal noses,and the odors they can detect.



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Re: lure [Re: rodneyb] #6354159
10/22/18 09:40 PM
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Give it four days at the set and it might be harder for an animal to detect the secondary odors. I would think that lure making would be like cooking, the ingredients need to be balanced for the most attractiveness. But I'm just learning so I could be wrong.

Re: lure [Re: rodneyb] #6354273
10/22/18 11:48 PM
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I feel if you know its in there a animal will to.good bad or other


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Re: lure [Re: rodneyb] #6354502
10/23/18 10:13 AM
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Well now talk about expensive those ingredients will cost a small fortune...ha ha

Re: lure [Re: rodneyb] #6361229
10/30/18 08:25 PM
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How can they be expensive? I have them on hand taken from those animals I have trapped.

You DO actually TRAP, don't you? shocked

And keep those glands?...ha ha

Re: lure [Re: rodneyb] #6361247
10/30/18 08:31 PM
10/30/18 08:31 PM
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N.C MO
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I agree al I might sale or trade a few glands but my rat glands will go to the grave with me if I haven't used them first! Castors about like franks hot sauce to me! I put that ---- on every thing grin


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Re: lure [Re: TONY.F] #6361619
10/31/18 10:11 AM
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Whether you buy them or collect them to use or sell them they have a value. Those three glands are about at the top of the list for being hard to get
and expense. Um yeah I've been known to cut a few glands and process them.

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