I started out my first bait after reading the archives and watching a lot of videos. I started with:

8 pounds of ground elk mixed with beef fat (tainted for 6 days stirring daily)
3 pounds of small chunked wild turkey breast (tainted for 3 days)

after 6 days/3 days taint, I added:

1 bottle of dobbins bait solution
4 oz Beaver Castor
4 oz of mink glands
1 oz Asafedita tincture, 1oz Gator Oil, 1 oz Valerian tincture
3 pounds of diced chicken turkey thighs (not tainted). I found them in the bottom of the freezer, 3 yrs old.
2 cans of chicken based dog food (something I saw on You tube North American Trapper mountain man bait recipe)
I also added some glycerin oil and sodium benzoate (what came with dobbins plus some extra I bought.)

Now I have approximately 2.5 gallons of bait. This is way more than what I had originally planned on. I am not sure if I should put another bottle of Dobbins Bait Solution in it or not? I do plan on adding 4 oz of beaver castor that someone just gave me in a trade for some old traps.

My questions are: Would you add another bottle of Dobbins? Would you add any more glands or tinctures? Also the Asafedita that I added was a tincture and I swear it had zero odor to me.

Lastly how many 16 oz jars will I need?? I have 20 on hand. I plan to let this sit in the mixing bucket for a few more days checking for bubbles and stirring daily before placing it in plastic jars. Thanks for any advice.

If anything maybe an extra cup or two of sodium benzoate when it gets to the state of taint you want.. Probably doesn't need much extra. The more stuff you add to the meat, it becomes more lure than bait.

Where did you get your asafetida tincture from? To me the pure gum I got from Paul smells like onions and sweaty socks ..

As to the jars.. there's 8 pints to a gallon so 20 should do you. Depending on how full you make the jars. Most jars are actually a bit bigger than stated to give some headroom. A few extras in case you estimated wrong or weren't too generous filling the jars.

I have always stopped the tainting first, then add ingredients bit by bit. Sounds like a whole lot of ingredients that will step on one another, but time will tell.

I got the A tincture from F&T it had zero odor. Like it was water almost.

In my opinion the reason for using a bait solution is hopefully you can get a good, tested, developed and proven formulation without doing all that work. Kind of defeats the purpose of using it if your going to start adding stuff to it without testing. Lot of poor quality ingredients out there to buy.