Great advice, I really like your simplistic approach to making snares and dyeing them. A fellas can get overwhelm with all the info out there. Thanks, from another wild man from NB !

I've heard people be concerned about boiling water affecting the temper of steel. Off the top of my head water boils at approx. 200F and steel would likely start to be affected around 700-800F. I appreciate your concern for quality but boiling water couldn't have any negative affect. Great video though and something I'd like to try.

Great tip and I'm going out right now and trying this. Later and thanks for sharing.

Interesting natural way to dye

Seems like the lighter fluid in the match light would give snares a petroleum smell?

Why would you use Match Light charcoal?

Great video, you did just make up that it would make the steel less strong. Going to try this out soon

I build a dozen dozen then i just toss them in the bog we have here in mn. Gives the a real nice gray/green color in spring but in summer itll turn them nearly black

Tannin. :)

Black walnut gives dark black color . Just boil like you would any other wood . Can use the nut hulls soon as they fall off tree . Traps don't rust . Don't hold oder as bad . And don't slow traps down as bad as a lot of things do . Maybe this will help .

they turned out great i don't have much hard wood around i got birch and alder around. would it work with fur and spruce. take care

What works good for colouring is Hemlock bark. It is full of the tannin you want for this process. This is the traditional bark used in my area to colour traps. Just wondering if you do this process without boiling the snares, do you get any of the oil from the snares coming to the surface of the water? I'd try to skim off the surface water before pulling snares in case there is a thin layer of oil which has floated up.

Black walnut would probably work better? Just collect a bunch of black walnut nuts, crush them, throw in water, boil it , drop the snares in.

Great! That looks easy. Do you need the "Match Light" type of charcoal briquets or will any type of charcoal work?

Thanks for sharing! Really enjoy your videos!

All you did was make a compost tea. Not bashing it at All ...I make this type of tea several times a year.

I've been trapping/rescuing dogs with many various kinds of box traps for many years so I'm very experienced, but I have a dog that refuses to walk into a box or hog trap so I'm considering a snare with a stop but I'm VERY concerned about doing this for fear I harm the dog, can you or anyone reading this that has 1st hand experience in using snares offer me advice about using a snare with a stop? this dog that I'm trying to trap walks thru a very defined walkway thru an area of specific bushes so placing the snare in an effective place would would be very easy to do so I know for a fact she will walk into the snare but man o man I'm scared this will go bad for the dog, the dog will probably be trapped and I'll find it snared several hours later and I do NOT want to take a chance on harming her...PLEASE HELP ME AND HER Thanks If you like I can be reached at whisnit@gmail.com

NB, I tried this for three weeks and there's no color on them. The only thing is I didn't use ready to light charcoal, just regular charcoal. Im ganna let them in longer I guess........

I've always used walnuts and baking soda. If you have easy access to walnuts. Jet black! Never tried charcoal but it makes your hands black. How in the world do you make them white though 🤔. I don't paint anything. Baking soda is as close as I have found.

Looked like that bag of charcoal was child and adult proof. LOL "Great and easy information" Tight Chain.

Thats awesome! Thanks, I might do this. Also did you e-mail me yet? Just curious. Thanks!

Tanins

lost me at matchlight charcoal.