I hear all about BTO and see it being sold, but how is everyone using it?
Thanks
JBS

I use a little in bait making…

Bait for canine? Thanks
Any body use it for marten?

I use a sqirt down a dirt hole for a change up

I’ve heard it is used extensively in canine baits. Have no idea if it works for marten. I’m guessing it would be mild and as such may not be a big draw to marten, as compared to castor or sac oil.

Some bear hunters pay a premium for that stuff.
Right now it has one of the best effort/reward ratios in the trapping world…..lol
I’ve got a few pails but rarely use it. It freezes right away and I won’t cut it with any kind of antifreeze..

I use it in my marten lure.

Shakey, I use it straight, and it gels up pretty quickly, but down to -20F (about as cold as I've used it, maybe a little colder) it is still the consistency of toothpaste and easily squeezeable. You sure you are talking about the pure oil and not the nasty white, watery stuff?

I make my tail oil and draw of the top oil.
I then take the top oil and pour it off at 20° F
I get a final product that does not freeze but can gel at really low temps

The black oil that’s left on top. I didn’t fool around with it too much in freezing temp though. I got it in a plastic urine bottle with the flip up squirt cap.
Maybe I’ll add a bit of that black honey into my marten batch.

Ah, same stuff I use, and if the bottle has about a hole about the size of a 22 bullet hole, some bottle also. You aren't squirting it in cold weather, but I would squeeze it out of that bottle about like toothpaste out of a tube. Just had to have a fair amount in the bottle, because you can only squeeze those bottles down so much.

I made some this spring out of skinned beaver tails, and drew it off after only a few weeks in the sun. considerably lighter than my usual "black honey" from skin on tails left for at least the summer, if not a year or more before being drawn off. I'll have to see if it thickens/darkens up with more age or stays a lighter, thinner oil.

I put a little oil in with tainted, stopped meat.it does not homogenize and will rise to the top but if you mix the jar a little it smooths things out. I’ve had success with the product Im making for myself.

I use beaver flashings oil the same way and it’s a little thicker.

Les, tell us more about the beaver fleshing oil, how made , how used

BTO doesn’t play well with others.

Even adding an emulsifier won’t get it to stay. It always ends up on top eventually.

All I did was stretch a red mechanics rag over a 4 1/2 gallon plaster pail and set it aside for a year or two in my greenhouse…there will be come a pink oil on top but over time that color will change. Don’t stack these anywhere that bears might take notice…. Just mix a little oil with tainted meat because that’s what I had….

Ps…I did snap a lid down over that rag…

Only thing I've really seen it play well with is lanolin. Heat the lanolin until it is liquid, add BTO and other ingredients, and make sure it is stirred well as it cools off. Once it solidifies, it will stay together indefinitely (at least for a couple years, haven't tested it longer than that) as long as it isn't allowed to heat up enough to liquify again. This would not work for you in your summer time depredation work, because temps would be too hot and it would melt riding around in your truck, but it works great in the wintertime, and the BTO keeps the lanolin from turning into a brick in cold weather. You have colder weather than I do, and I'm sure you are familiar with what a lot of lanolin based lures are like in that. Practically need an ax to knock off a chunk.