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sac oil? #6958876
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Who here prefers to mix sac oil in with a homemade beaver food lure? I have always used them separate at a set and am wondering if I should get things down to one bottle. I understand many lure makers include the oil in formulations. Anybody have a preference on proportions if they do like to mix?

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I just use sac oil as It Is. I have never added sac oil to any of my beaver lures.


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Re: sac oil? [Re: chicken1] #6958958
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Thank you Beav. Good to know.

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I have never used a beaver food lure. I use sac oil to moisten up castor, I don't mix anything else in but castor and sac oil. I have used a drop or two of sac oil with nothing else on trap wise beaver, but generally I have the best luck with blind sets on trap wise beaver.

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It just seems to me a that sac oil Is a none aggressive type of smell. While castor Is a aggressive type smell. It seems to me that the 2 shouldn't be mixed. I know It's done but I don't.
I just use mineral oil or glycerin mixed with my castor to make It more of a liquid.


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Thanks for the feed back guys. Peeled sticks and food lure have been my go to. More success then castor even. I had read the oils could entice a few more. Guess its an instinct to get into somebody elses food rather then find your own. A reaction to compete with others of the same species, rather then just hunger. Didn't know if I was missing something.

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Originally Posted by The Beav
It just seems to me a that sac oil Is a none aggressive type of smell. While castor Is a aggressive type smell. It seems to me that the 2 shouldn't be mixed. I know It's done but I don't.
I just use mineral oil or glycerin mixed with my castor to make It more of a liquid.

Nothing wrong with not mixing them. I've used straight castor that I cut out of beaver while on the line before and did fine. I just grew up learning to mix them (and my dad said he tried mineral oil and didn't have as good of luck as with sac oil, so I never tried it, funny how at over 40 you still do things because that's the way dad did it). I've never had a beaver refusal problems with castor/sac oil mix except for trapwise beaver. I have found that castor sets are absolutely deadly when trapping rivers and swamps, and while they still work well when trapping ponds in small streams where the beaver don't travel as much they aren't as dynamite. Since such areas usually have more blind set opportunities than rivers/swamps I tend to mostly blind set them.

I always believed that a small amount of sac oil is secreted when a beaver makes a castor mound, so always thought it was more natural to have some mixed in.

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They are successful when used individually as well as when mixed.


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