Traps/Snares...

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If you plant traps and snares how does one go about "de-scenting" them so as to ensure that their intended prey don't know to avoid that area?
 
Smoke: Hang the snare wire / trigger in the smoke of your fire for 30 minutes.

Water: Store them under a natural water source for 30 minutes.

These are the methods i was trained in.. And they work well for removing your scent.
 
No from what my Mil instructor told us:

#1: Fire is natural, and fire does indeed happen without any human cause. It's a smell animals know, or at least know of.

#2: If your buring wood, the smoke still smells like wood. I myself can smell the difference in various types of wood being burnt. Animals should smell the wood too.



and heck, if you don't buy it (now that i think about it, the explination is odd, but i KNOW it works) just use the water method.
 
I'd try to explain it too, but it's already been said: natural smell vs. unnatural smell (people.) Smoke works.
 
I never descent my snares, and they catch everything from mink to coyote. Same for my leghold traps

In my experience scent removal is necessary only if you have exposed your equipment to something that your quarry will find particularly repulsive, like the solvent based trap dyes or inside your wife's perfume cabinet. When a coyote runs across a smoked trap that you set for him he smells smoke, the bait, the rubber from the gloves you wore when you handled the trap, the soles of your boots and the dander that fell off your skin while you made the set.
 
I've had "smarter" animals, IE fox, and coyotes turn down a "human scented trap"

Rabbits, squirrels stuff like that get caught in them anyway.


I've also had deer avoid deadfalls due to scent.
 
You can descent them in smoke however alot of animals shy away from that. Boiling in local vegetations works well. Also leave your snares outside in a canvas bag and only handle them with gloves (if you're trying to catch rabbits smear the gloves in their excretion) and never touch them again if you can with bare hands.
Scent will wear off, you may not get a catch for a few days, but after that it will be fine.
 
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