Buckwheat hulls seem to be popular for fisher sets, but I never hear of anyone using them for canines. Anyone use them? Pros, cons?

I never have, but I know a couple guys who tried them for wolves. They claimed they worked and would take a lot of water before freezing, but when they reached their saturation point they froze into one great block and you had to chop the trap out with an ax. They were using them mainly setting before snow storms, so that the set was covered with snow and no blending needed.
Personally I've tried different things, but generally if I am setting in much snow I prefer to put down some wax paper, set the trap on it bedded on top of the snow, cover with wax paper and either let it snow over it or put a VERY thin coating of snow over it. Any snow you move, by any method I've tried, tends to freeze up, so if I do cover it, I use the bare minimum.

I am rarely dealing with snow. I use a mixture of sifted peat moss and cover hulls for canines when bedding in wet freeze thaw conditions and top dress with waxed dirt/sand and very thin layer of native dirt when possible. Even when it is not freezing, I use the same mixture over the trap and top dress with native dirt. No polyfil, underalls or pan covers for me.

We're about to get pounded with snow again looks like. I don't think any of my sets will be working no matter what I do

I use them in the beginning of our season depending on how much snow we have. I like the stuff works pretty good with a screen cover.

Without dressing up the top of the set they will just blow away here

I am trying them at fisher and cat sets this year. No luck yet but it takes time. I don't think I would use with canine sets because it is hard to bed the trap solid.

Peg your trap and It will be perfectly stabilized In the bed. Pole barn spikes with the heads removed will get It done.

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We're about to get pounded with snow again looks like. I don't think any of my sets will be working no matter what I do [/quote]

We've been getting snow almost every day, but it keeps staying in that 20s at night mid-30s in the day and switching to rain some days. It just won't cool down. I don't have anything but a dozen marten sets out, right now. It is supposed to actually get cold after Christmas, and I'll try and get some wolf sets out then. First we didn't have enough snow to run a snowmachine to get into most of where I wanted to trap, then when we finally got some it is this wet concrete crap. Got a couple feet now though, so we should have a good base once it cools down.

We've been getting snow almost every day, but it keeps staying in that 20s at night mid-30s in the day and switching to rain some days. It just won't cool down. I don't have anything but a dozen marten sets out, right now. It is supposed to actually get cold after Christmas, and I'll try and get some wolf sets out then. First we didn't have enough snow to run a snowmachine to get into most of where I wanted to trap, then when we finally got some it is this wet concrete crap. Got a couple feet now though, so we should have a good base once it cools down.[/quote]

Yeah, next week here the highs aren't going to get out of the teens with lows in the single digits and negatives. Same thing has been happening here with temps getting in the mid to upper 30s. Can't do much with that.

I saw this somewhere years ago. At first I was skeptical but after a little practice I was able to bed the trap using nails with the head on. If you do it right, the trap is rock solid and easily pulls away when fired.