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#331970 - 09/12/07 12:24 AM Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue?
BuckNE BuckNE "Migrant Laborer" trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 5208 Loc: Southeast Nebraska	Which do you prefer, and do you also paint your bodygrip traps? _________________________ Newt Sterling's Number One Fan buckne60@yahoo.com
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#332006 - 09/12/07 02:57 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: BuckNE]
Alaskan Alaskan trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 2091 Loc: Nome, Alaska	I remember reading somewhere that "blue" wasn't allowed because of its effectivness, or some mumbo jumbo like that. Does color really make that much of a difference? _________________________ "I'm not hung over. I'm just tired and have a headache."
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#332013 - 09/12/07 05:05 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Alaskan]
blindhog blindhog trapper Registered: 12/24/06 Posts: 299 Loc: southwest Arkansas	Light blue and dark blue are equally effective, but I prefer dark blue as it is less likely to been seen by people walking by my set. White buckets can be spray painted with some type of blue camo pattern to increase effectiveness. I spray paint new bodygrips with dull primer, I couldn't find it in blue so I used olive drab green.
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#332015 - 09/12/07 05:22 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: blindhog]
TexA TexA trapper Registered: 12/24/06 Posts: 2079 Loc: Estherville, IA	I prefer the Light Blue buckets, if I can find them.... My 220s get sprayed with Rustoleum light tan or dip them in diluted Doe Skin latex from ACE HDWE and then a splash of flat black, green and light yellow camo pattern. _________________________ TexA Member Iowa Trappers Association National Trappers Association
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#332048 - 09/12/07 06:41 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: TexA]
Nick C Nick C trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 6546 Loc: Iowa 21 YEARS OLD	To achieve a maximum harvest, you should use what I refer to as "Blueberry Blue" paint for your buckets. I thought everyone knew that?? _________________________ I BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRICA!!!
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#332052 - 09/12/07 06:51 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Nick C]
Muskrat Muskrat trapper Registered: 12/23/06 Posts: 436 Loc: Wisconsin	I've found the dark blue works best as it retains heat better allowing a better liftoff of the jaws from the moss & soil when used as a stepping stone set in a seep as described here a long while ago . . .
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#332161 - 09/12/07 08:42 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Muskrat]
BuckNE BuckNE "Migrant Laborer" trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 5208 Loc: Southeast Nebraska	Flat, powder, or glossy? And what do you think about a metallic flake increasing eye appeal to coons? _________________________ Newt Sterling's Number One Fan buckne60@yahoo.com
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#332172 - 09/12/07 08:51 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: BuckNE]
Rusty Axe Camp Rusty Axe Camp trapper Registered: 08/09/07 Posts: 146 Loc: Midland, MI	Are you guys being serious or just screwing around? I planned on camoing my buckets (brown/green/etc), but blue is better? _________________________ Erik "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." T. Roosevelt
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#332183 - 09/12/07 09:09 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Rusty Axe Camp]
Muskrat Muskrat trapper Registered: 12/23/06 Posts: 436 Loc: Wisconsin	The sparkle factor aids in 'coon attraction, however, I've found the dull matte finish to be best for mink. This is a topic not to be taken lightly.
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#332186 - 09/12/07 09:12 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Rusty Axe Camp]
Nick C Nick C trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 6546 Loc: Iowa 21 YEARS OLD	Originally Posted By: Rusty Axe Camp I planned on camoing my buckets (brown/green/etc), but blue is better? All I'm going to say, is that you don't see 1000 plus coon guys out in the woods without them toting a blue bucket or 2. _________________________ I BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRICA!!!
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#332242 - 09/12/07 10:16 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Lil' Bit]
Shortline Shortline trapper Registered: 12/27/06 Posts: 349 Loc: N MN	'Nuff said. Tim _________________________ I would rather be in my boat with a drink on the rocks than in the drink with my boat on the rocks.....
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#332330 - 09/12/07 11:53 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Shortline]
offshoretrash offshoretrash trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 1401 Loc: Farmerville, La	Dark Blue in the snow and light blue if no snow. Painting is not as good as the original the critters just seem to know. _________________________ 2006 and 2007 T-Man/Cathryn Corner Fantasy Football League Champion
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#332344 - 09/12/07 12:11 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: offshoretrash]
Rusty Axe Camp Rusty Axe Camp trapper Registered: 08/09/07 Posts: 146 Loc: Midland, MI	But it would be advantageous to paint regular white buckets? _________________________ Erik "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." T. Roosevelt
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#332346 - 09/12/07 12:13 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Rusty Axe Camp]
Nick C Nick C trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 6546 Loc: Iowa 21 YEARS OLD	Originally Posted By: Rusty Axe Camp But it would be advantageous to paint regular white buckets? Yes! There is several dealers out there now carrying blue buckets. I've said it before and I'll say it again, You won't find me making a bucket set without the bucket being Blue! _________________________ I BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRICA!!!
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#332347 - 09/12/07 12:14 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: offshoretrash]
Grubstake Grubstake trapper Registered: 01/26/07 Posts: 1467 Loc: Lake of the Woods, Minnesota	they work for large predetors too blue buckets were adapted by a trapper while on safari ive found this style to be very effective tim, you better check the regs, i believe the blue bucket has been outlawed here in mn due to non target catches of holsteins and quarter horses. _________________________
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#332356 - 09/12/07 12:26 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Grubstake]
MnMan MnMan trapper Registered: 03/04/07 Posts: 805 Loc: central MN, USA	Shortline, was that fisher actually caught with that one spring latched? I guess with the blue bucket small details like that can be overlooked and you can still catch 'em! _________________________ I'm just happy to be here!
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#332358 - 09/12/07 12:27 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Grubstake]
Browndog Browndog trapper Registered: 12/27/06 Posts: 258 Loc: Dodge Co., WI	i read on the internet that possum can't see any shade of the blue color spectrum. my grinner catchs dropped after i adopted the blue bucket set. great post... seems to come up every year about this time. _________________________ Send Lawyers Guns and Money
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#332366 - 09/12/07 12:41 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: MnMan]
Shortline Shortline trapper Registered: 12/27/06 Posts: 349 Loc: N MN	Originally Posted By: MnMan Shortline, was that fisher actually caught with that one spring latched? I guess with the blue bucket small details like that can be overlooked and you can still catch 'em! The blue bucket was so effective, that I was JUST SETTING the trap and still had one spring set........that danged fisher came in like a storm, knocked me out and dove through the trap trying to get into that bucket....lol. (Was starting to remove him and remebered my camera, so the pic is mid-removal...) Tim _________________________ I would rather be in my boat with a drink on the rocks than in the drink with my boat on the rocks.....
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#332374 - 09/12/07 12:49 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Shortline]
MnMan MnMan trapper Registered: 03/04/07 Posts: 805 Loc: central MN, USA	Nonetheless, those blue buckets are AWESOME! _________________________ I'm just happy to be here!
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#332397 - 09/12/07 01:31 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: MnMan]
charles charles trapper Registered: 12/25/06 Posts: 272 Loc: Outer Banks of NC	I use dark blue except for full moon, then I use light blue and paint a half moon inside the bucket. I was never successful on full moon nights until I tried this. Learned it from an Indian whose ancesters used conibears in pottery buckets. He said the half moon painted on the inside of the bucket fooled coons into thinking the moon was not yet full, thus the fed better. Works for me.
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#332555 - 09/12/07 03:42 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: charles]
MnMan MnMan trapper Registered: 03/04/07 Posts: 805 Loc: central MN, USA	I tried the half-moon idea once by setting my traps in a little brown building with a half-moon on the door. It got to be a little frustrating at times because I would find my traps snapped and filled with used toilet paper much of the time.I think the half moon on the door was placed a little high for coons to see easily (what were they thinking?).I also tried setting a 330 across the hole in the little shelf in that small building with the half moon on the door (figured it had to be some kind of a coon den) but all I caught in that was a couple of hairy wrinkled things that resembled beaver castors. I for the life of me could not figure out what they were so I tried to look up the landowner to ask him but he has not been around lately. I asked around the neighborhood to see what happened to him and I heard he was in the hospital for something so I guess I won't know what I caught for a while. I went back to using the blue bucket on dark nights. I am now working on a template so I can spray paint a half moon inside some of the light blue buckets.If it works for Charles it is sure worth a try! _________________________ I'm just happy to be here!
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#332615 - 09/12/07 04:29 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: MnMan]
Gary Benson Gary Benson trapper Registered: 12/23/06 Posts: 742 Loc: Cambridge Nebraska	I use light blue to catch females, dark blue for males. No kidding. _________________________ I owe I owe so off to work we go.
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#332621 - 09/12/07 04:35 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Gary Benson]
Nick C Nick C trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 6546 Loc: Iowa 21 YEARS OLD	Originally Posted By: Gary Benson I use light blue to catch females, dark blue for males. No kidding. Now that is a science! _________________________ I BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRICA!!!
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#332688 - 09/12/07 05:28 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: BuckNE]
mark mark trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 3016 Loc: KY	Originally Posted By: BuckNE Which do you prefer, and do you also paint your bodygrip traps? Oh Lord, here we go again, ROFL. _________________________ When you control the situation, can your actions stand the light of day? So be it!
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#333135 - 09/12/07 10:56 PM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: mark]
JerryD JerryD trapper Registered: 12/22/06 Posts: 653 Loc: Redgranite Wisconsin	Now dont go getting all excited over this as the BMP's have been due out for quite some time but have yet to be published. could be they decide that the blue bucket set is way to hard on populatons of furbearers and seek to limit their use severely. _________________________ WTA life member NTA life member
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#333202 - 09/13/07 01:35 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: Lil' Bit]
doug toops doug toops trapper Registered: 12/23/06 Posts: 495 Loc: revere,missouri	well buck i need to tell ya if ya dont use pink or tye dye buckets your wasting your time _________________________ Des moinse River Taxidermy
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#333315 - 09/13/07 06:41 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: doug toops]
grumpy grumpy trapper Registered: 12/23/06 Posts: 444 Loc: plattsburg, missouri	HOOOEY!! the grump. _________________________ member missouri trappers association
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#333330 - 09/13/07 07:04 AM Re: Blue buckets....light blue or dark blue? [Re: grumpy]
RdFx RdFx trapper Registered: 12/23/06 Posts: 1053 Loc: Wisconsin	Just what i expect from ya grump, Hoooey-Hoooey.....LOL ..Snirk!
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