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Buckwheat hulls #7035632
11/02/20 01:59 PM
11/02/20 01:59 PM
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woodchuck Offline OP
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Reading Ralph Scherder and Rich Falers Fisher trapping book and they talk about using buckwheat hulls as a covering on the traps. I've always shifted dirt for covering. Where do you get these (haven't checked yet but google says WalMart has them) and is there any reason for using them?

Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: woodchuck] #7035699
11/02/20 03:42 PM
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F&t, Hoosier trapping supply, and many other trapping supply sites carry them. They don't absorb water as bad as the natural dirt will. They have a natural wax coating on them. If they get wet they don't freeze solid. If they freeze it's normally like a little thin pancake on top the trap most animals will brake thru the crusted top layer and set the trap off still. Tried them before didn't care for them if you don't sift a lite layer of dirt on top of them they blow away real easily. Plus they are only good for covering up the trap you can not bed in them. Watch a couple episodes of Hoosier trapper on you tube they use them alot with success in bad weather.

Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: woodchuck] #7035716
11/02/20 04:03 PM
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Johnny Thorpe's "Fisher Trapping" DVD shows using Buckwheat Hulls for fisher in the Adirondack Mountains in up state New York.

Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: woodchuck] #7035728
11/02/20 04:17 PM
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Many trapping supply places sell cover hulls.
Google---> Andy Stoe's Cover Hulls (Buckwheat Hulls).

Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: Hern] #7035798
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It is pretty hard to find anything much more natural looking if you are trapping in the woods. Some guys do not like them, some do.
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Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: woodchuck] #7035818
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I only use them when bedding traps in the actual snow; such as when in snow a foot deep blind setting. Make a depression, fill with buckwheat hulls, push the trap in, cover with bw hulls and sift light snow over it.

Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: woodchuck] #7035829
11/02/20 06:21 PM
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I have used them and they are not too bad in freezing weather if mixed with or covered with a thin layer of dirt but the grey squirrels find them a little too interesting for me to continue using them.


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Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: Ringbill5196] #7053956
11/18/20 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Ringbill5196
I only use them when bedding traps in the actual snow; such as when in snow a foot deep blind setting. Make a depression, fill with buckwheat hulls, push the trap in, cover with bw hulls and sift light snow over it.

this is what i've done and it works great, trap fires like it is dry. also used it in bedding hay sets on top of frozen ground.


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Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: woodchuck] #7055579
11/19/20 01:39 PM
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woodchuck that's all i use jan. on for fox. no problems. also you can scatter a couple hand fulls on the snow around sets for great eye appeal

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woodchuck that's all i use jan. on for fox. no problems. also you can scatter a couple hand fulls on the snow around sets for great eye appeal

Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: woodchuck] #7055800
11/19/20 06:16 PM
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I use them in the winter for bobcat or any other set that will get covered with snow. Caught fisher last season using hulls.

Re: Buckwheat hulls [Re: woodchuck] #7055812
11/19/20 06:36 PM
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Been using bwh’s in bad weather since I started back in ‘70.
They work very well.

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