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Speed Dip or
logwood dye?
By
Buckshot, author of "Buckshot's Modern Trapper's Guide"- www.buckshotscamp.com
I
use Speed Dip for all my water traps and am very happy with it. For my
predator traps I still use logwood dye and wax. The reason; according to
my catch results, the one year I used Speed Dip my predator line
produced about 20 to 30% less. Simple, I switched back to logwood dye
and my catch total was back up to normal. You can catch some fox and
coyote with Speed Dip but think of the 20 to 30% you are missing because
of using it. Logwood dye is a powder that comes in a 1-pound bag. It's
pretty cheap and does about 6-8 dozen traps. You pour it in a 5-gallon
container and boil the traps for 30 minutes; they come out black. Put a
new batch of traps in the container; do this until you are done. Speed
Dip comes in a 1-quart container you mix with gas and dip your traps. It
does about 10 dozen traps. You dip your traps outside in the heat of
summer and hang the traps and let them air out for 1-2 weeks.
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