Full Metal Jacket dip review

[bigjohn]

I've always just dyed my traps with logwood, walnut hulls, maple leaves, whatever. I'm just a creature of habit and if it ain't broke don't fix it.

I tried the FMJ on some beaver snares as Mo. river water will rust up metal faster than a possum to a cat set. Since the snares that don't connect one year are used the next, I wanted a little protection for them. Stuff worked pretty good and didn't seem to hinder them closing.

This summer I dipped some footholds that I was going to use on a coyote job to see how it would work. I dipped them twice on a hot windy day and set them two days later. I'm happy tp say it worked just fine as I caught coon, fox, possum, and coyotes with it and not one trap dug up.

I went ahead and did all my land traps after that and never had a problem this season. Coons will still shine up a trap with this stuff on but since it protects the steel, I'll just powerwash the traps I used this year and will just redip them without redying.

I don't think this stuff is suitable for water trapping though as it turns cloudy(it didn't on the beaver snares though) when the trap is set in water. I didn't notice it on land traps that went through a rain or two.

[krank]

This was a subject here ten years ago. Lots of debate. I used a quart of rustoleum and two quarts of white gas and got similar results. You got me wondering about treating some traps after I power spray them. I used to have every trap I owned out there but last couple years they have been rusting away.

[bigjohn]

I use that rustoleum dip on my water traps and have had good luck, these are otter and beaver traps. I don't water trap anything else. I only have to do them every couple of years.