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Re: Cleaning skunk traps ?
[Re: kyron4]
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06/27/20 02:53 PM
06/27/20 02:53 PM
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Boil the wax off or blast at car wash. Do the peroxide, baking sodas and Dawn wash. Dry. Wax. Spray paint or just dip in Andy Stoe or Mark Steck or Snare One dip. a little skunk smell is natural in nature. Don’t get bent out of shape over it. Coyotes really don’t care.
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Re: Cleaning skunk traps ?
[Re: kyron4]
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06/27/20 05:32 PM
06/27/20 05:32 PM
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Never paid much attention to which traps caught skunks. Always wash off mud, dye again and wax. Never noticed smell after pulling out of hot dye ( usually sumac bark ) Never new skunk to contaminate my wax and have had the same wax pot for ten years I just keep adding to it. Catch coyote fox coon possum and skunks again every year in them traps without a lot of digging or rolling
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Re: Cleaning skunk traps ?
[Re: kabguy]
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06/27/20 10:48 PM
06/27/20 10:48 PM
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Good question Kyron4, I often wondered the same thing. I boiled a skunky trap in logwood dye and hung it in a tree in the rain and snow for two years and just checked it the other day figuring it would be good by now; nope, still has a faint odor to it. I was afraid to place in my wax too but I guess I will just use it. I've got one in my laundry sink that caught a skunk in 2017... still stinks. Figured I'd set it around some rotten eggs to clean out skunks and grinners.
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Re: Cleaning skunk traps ?
[Re: kyron4]
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07/01/20 01:14 AM
07/01/20 01:14 AM
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Just set them out.They will catch fur.Probably better than your other traps.
Last edited by Boco; 07/01/20 01:15 AM.
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