scent bottles

[musher]

Last year I read an article about a guy re-establishing a trapline that had been owned by an old timer.

The old timers sets were classic. It was a vertical pole cubby with a #4 longspring in the front. When the new guy was checking the sets out he saw a bit of fuel line sticking out of the ground. He pulled it up and found that it was inserted into a bottle. He figured that the old guy put bait/lure in the bottle, buried it, and let the scent escape out of the tube.

I made up a dozen bottles and I'm going to use them in snare areas. I often use the cut-off 2 liter pop bottle lure dispensing method. It works well but lure evaporates. I'm kind of hoping that a good dose of XLDC in a mason jar will last all season.

Any opinions? Novel idea or did I waste 15 minutes of my life drilling holes in mason jar lids and hot glueing 3 inch pieces of gas line?

[thebeav2]

Well It looks like you are going to have to buy lots of lure.
Your Idea may have some merit but I would go with smaller bottles and place some sort of wicking material In the jars,like cotton or sheeps wool.
What's going to happen when your above ground tubes freeze up or are covered with snow?
There's a old saying, Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained.
We will be waiting for the results of your tests.

Gary

[musher]

Hi Gary: I'm not going to bury the bottles. I'm going to place them fairly high under a spruce/fir tree. My goal is to use the lure in the same way you use bait at a draw station. I want to snare them as they circle looking for the source of the smell.

I was figuring on a handfull of feathers to pour the lure onto but cotton batting is a good idea. the mason jars are the short ones. XLDC will fill them up with stink regardless of the size.

I'm hoping a 2 once bottle will do the 12 jars for the season.

[17HMR]

Sounds interesting, Maybe glue a little black plastic to the jar or paint it black and tie it up where the sun can get to it a little bit? That xldc accounted for over half of my yotes last year, so I went with the 4 oz for this year, great stuff if used in the right spot.

[musher]

I hadn't thought about sun. I think the greenhouse effect might produce enough heat without the black. But then again, A shot of spraypaint won't hurt!

Now I have to check out my location for a sunny spot. It won't be sunny at night when most of the critters roam, though ...

Snow proofing vs. heat for scent dispersal ....

[thebeav2]

You might want to look Into one or more of those scent dispensers they use near deer stands.
They operate for about a week on one oz of scent.

Gary

[rk660]

a 35 mm film container with holes drilled in bottom and side, with wool or cotton balls inside for lure holder, hung from tree, makes a great waterproof lure wick. For a snare lure in volume, I'd use rotgut fish juice spiked with skunk, poured on a rag and hung 4-5' off ground. Jar thing wouldnt be too bad for this I suppose also and would last longer. Think you will get more scent dispersion if wired up in brush though. something strong and stinky will bring them in, but once found and nose on it the thrill is over for them. Nice thing about snaring a plum thicket or hunk of tall grass is that you will miss the skunks and possums with proper height coyote snares.