I see this brought up on here on a regular basis so I thought I'd give my two cents on the subject. This is the link to my you tube channel of boiling, dyeing, and waxing your traps. I trap wolf, wolverine, lynx, fox, and marten mostly and I think scent proofing and preserving your traps is the equivalent of sighting in your gun if your hunting. Its my second video I'm still a little nervous and made a couple mistakes. Yes I got that second batch of 3's in the dye tank with the rest of them! lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duPnlP9md4M

Probably the best video I have seen on doing traps.I`m 56 so I was showed a long time ago how to do them.

Lots of good information there, I like it. Thanks for posting.....jk

Good video. Thanks for sharing

Thanks guys and thanks for the subscriptions and likes!

Good vodeo

Nice job on the video

Good job.

FINALLY!!!!! I hate arguing with people about the purpose of dying traps. Its not for coloring, its not for odor. It's to protect the trap. Thanks for the awesome video!

Isn't that the truth! I figured if I put pictures of the how they turn out after a few years of dyeing them without rusting them It might make sense. Its a shame all the traps that get ruined from not getting treated correctly. They are just another tool to me like my guns one holds them and one throws lead at them and they cost a lot of money and I want them both to last forever.

this year i got a late start and never got to dying my traps, just used from last year. mostly water trapped and those were painted a couple years ago. I did find a few of them, some not treated for couple years, were in desperate need of attention. so this year im doing it a$$ backwards and will be dying end of winter instead of fall. I just dont want to pull traps out next year and have issues with some being rusted so bad I have to do a lot of work on them.

Spent the weekend helping a buddy getting that full metal jacket of his traps so we could preserve and prepare them correctly. Had to put them in a mixer with gravel for a while to get them cleaned up. One thing you might think about before dipping them in paint, speed dip, full metal jacket is what you're going to do with them after a season catching animals as they chip it off from chewing etc. and if you dip them again its going to build up and slow down your trap verses boiling, dyeing, and waxing as wax is also a lubricant to keep your traps fast. Check out my video and see why you DON'T rust your traps before you boil, dye, and wax to make them last forever! Watch the whole video to the end to see the proof!