weathering new snares ?

[meinnotts 1]

i have bought a few and wondered if they need weathering at all before use to get rid of any smells etc

 

i was going to hang them up in the shed

[alimac 882]

sure woodga put up a thread about his catchs with none wethered snares not that long back

[meinnotts 1]

cheers alimac,

 

just found the thread after a fair bit of searching

 

no need to weather them then

[snareman 3]

cheers alimac,

 

just found the thread after a fair bit of searching

 

no need to weather them then

thats just old fashioned nonsense , the only real problem with new snares is that they are more visible, to any prowler , but once they weather , and set well out they are extremely hard to see. i set out 100 brand new pegged snares . one morning and had rabbits the following morning. woodga set a hundred out not so long ago and took a good few in the evening just before dark , then took a kill in the morning , the overall total between evening and morning was nearly a hundred rabbits , all from new shiny brass snares.

[meinnotts 1]

cheers alimac,

 

just found the thread after a fair bit of searching

 

no need to weather them then

thats just old fashioned nonsense , the only real problem with new snares is that they are more visible, to any prowler , but once they weather , and set well out they are extremely hard to see. i set out 100 brand new pegged snares . one morning and had rabbits the following morning. woodga set a hundred out not so long ago and took a good few in the evening just before dark , then took a kill in the morning , the overall total between evening and morning was nearly a hundred rabbits , all from new shiny brass snares.

cheers snareman