Taxi. We were just talking about that! How did Pud Long and James Lucero catch 1000 plus a year with long spring ??? Would like to see reading on some long spring traps!!

Probably a really stupid question. But does any dyes or wax help hide? Such as fmj

It’s not a stupid question. I haven’t really found one. Powder coating I’ve done on Cage traps and Body grips that I have doesn’t seem to make a difference.It’s certainly possible.

Could I use a Gauss meter to measure the electro magnetic fields?

Probably a really stupid question. But does any dyes or wax help hide? Such as fmj

After reading the entire 9 pages of responses I remembered Locklear’s Teachers of the Night videos I’ve seen and got the impression most of the avoidance of traps was because the canines were hole shy.

In the early minutes of the TotN dirt hole, he shows a coyote work a dh set from the back and side and promptly get caught in a trap set 90 degrees to the right of the dirt hole. That coyote didn’t avoid the trap because it was adverse to its magnetic field. If trap magnetic fields are so repulsive, that female coyote would have gone around the trap on its way to the bait.

In the TotN beaver version, he films a beaver sniffing the exposed metal of a 330. That trap still must have had a magnetic field, but once the beaver felt the “new” addition to its domain wasn’t harmful, it tried to go through it.

I’m not convinced magnetic fields have all that much to do with trap avoidance. Hole shyness, yes. But the pipe dream set has shown us there are a lot of critters caught that aren’t bothered by metal screens or the traps under them. The idea that we could be setting near a fault line, or the trap has to be turned a certain direction in order to lessen its magnetism, or the moon wasn’t in the 7th house long enough or whatever: I’m not ready to think in terms of avoidance based on this theory yet.

My observations have convinced me that at least beaver, coyotes, mink, and raccoon do not avoid or even appear to notice strong magnetic fields.
Clearly though, tests show some animals can orient themselves with the earth’s magnetic field when migrating or navigating travels, and strong magnetic fields can disrupt that ability so that they navigate differently or orient themselves in a different direction when traveling or navigating. But I see no video observation based evidence that strong magnetic fields or variations affect an animals behavior or activities at a specific location. Not saying it’s impossible, just saying I’ve got a lot of video of animals doing their thing around super powerful magnets as if the magnet was just another rock. Walking on them, moving them while dam building, standing over them while munching some bait.... No effect. So for whatever that is worth, there you go.

You might want to go back and read all of my posts since August on magnetic field of devices. Your understanding is why you cannot grasp it.