nothing but logwood dye for my traps. But thats how I roll.

At least do them all out the first year with the clean, rust, dye, and wax. Then you can get lazy after that. I usually do mine each year as an excuse to get away from the wife and play with my traps and drink a few barley pops. Gun Nut

nothing wrong with it at all if you like mistreating your equipment and have the $$$$ to buy new traps.

the only thing you need to worry about is using Bob`s "Yada,yada,yada"
you should be sceeerd,that trip did you in

Nick How hard is it to wax a trap?
Come on, 1/2 an hour to heat up the wax, 1 minute per 3 traps, in no time your done, traps are fast, protected .
I just have never found it that hard to wax, mid season blow off the dirty ones at the carwash and rewax....B....

Mistreating is the word you used.

Like I said, they have a protective covering of grease. Plus, isn't it advocated by EVERYONE to rust your traps before dying or dipping? So how would leaving them in the water or land, exposed, to get an EXCELLENT coat of rust on them be considered "mistreating" ?


LOL, DONNIE, "Yada, Yada, Yada" is something I picked up from SEINFELD!

I agree, I agree. My coyote traps will get waxed.


The 7 dozen new Duke 1.5's I got for coon/mink will be naked this season.

Just had to stir T-Man up a bit, ya know, an out of the "norm" dye/wax/dip post.

Nick you are absolutely right.I always like the greasy and shiny look on my coon traps.The rainbow in the water after I place my trap is a welcome sight to all critters that pass by.Last but not least I also add tin foil to the pan for more shine.It seems as though the bigger boar coon love the shine.Big Iowa boars like the bling bling brotha.LMFAO!!!!!

should be fine for anything other than canine trapping till next spring,then i would dye if rusty

Nick, I have a "few" traps to dye. Bring them on up and you can throw them in my pot!

lol, Yeah, a "few"

I also have a "few".

If I start having Nightmares, I'll use F-1.

It doesn't take long to treat them.

If you don't mind buying traps sooner than you need to, then don't do anything with them. Many people take pride in good treated traps, good sets, and well handled furs.

To each their own....

Have fun!!

would depend a great deal on where one trapped, trapping the small farm ponds or deep ditch runn offs in northwestern kansas where the acids and salts from 40 years of dumping oil feild water has occured and those oily traps will be pitted beyond recognition in about 5 days, run off ditches below hog confinement building or cattle feedlots are often as bad as well as settleing ponds, its not what ya can get away with for many folks, its where.

Nick go to bed! Some day when you grow up you can be like your big brother Bob, or was that K-9?

Nick, that moving water in the "cricks" will wash the mud off them traps, that shiny pan showing will get them coon curious and they will start playing with traps, flipping them out of the trap bed... tripped empty traps in your future! Combined with the slow reaction of the trap from not bieng waxed adding too many toe catches, leading to escapes...

I really don't know if any of that will happen but if it does, now I can say "I told you so! "

~ADC~

Most people like to dye and wax there traps to keep them in good condition for several years to come.

Ive ran brand new traps straight out of box a time or two.....I think the oil film floating in water camoflauges the trap.

Once got down to last 1.65 brig in box, had a flat bank that wouldnt hold a hole, so I tore one end off box, planted it upside down and threw some fish in it, set trap at open end. 3 coons 3 nights till box kinda "melted"

The secret RK N.T.B. (new trap box) cubby set.

Hows that for a freebie!! LOL. See what you could of had at the NTA for free, 100s of NTB in dumpters all over fairgrounds.