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I have a very good way to catch mink and fox. My method of catching mink is this: I use a Number 3 Newhouse trap, but remove one of the springs. Thus I have a trap that catches a mink so high that he cannot gnaw or twist out. They stay right there until I take them out. I never had a mink get away yet. Bit a number 2 trap gets feet and toes.
I use mink’s musk and mink’s matrix, muskrat’s musk, and oil of cumin well mixed and let it stand in an air-tight bottle for six months and shake well before using. Four to six drops of this scent is all I need to catch the slyest old dog mink that ever walked. I certainly can get them every time. I catch three female mink in the mating season, and get the matrix of the three and put into a half-pint bottle. Then I take the musk-bags of fifteen make mink and squeeze the musk into the bottle. I then catch enough muskrats to get four ounces of clear rat musk and from online stores I get one ounce Oil of Cumin. I put all into the bottle and cork it up airtight. To bait the traps, I take a piece of muskrat skin and tie it on the pan of my trap and put four to six drops of this scent on it. Then I cover the trap and chain so nothing is in sight but the muskrat skin on the ban. If there is a mink within one mile of my trap, and the wind blows in his direction, I know of no reason why I will not catch him. It is the best mink scent and bait that any living man ever used.
I have used all kinds of scent and never found any that was anywhere near as good as this kind. I know from experience what I am saying. I never had a mink get away from a Number Three Newhouse yet. Anyone starting to make this scent need not make as much at one time. Make one-half to one-quarter at a time to get started. That is the way to capture the mink.
Submitted by Ed Brehmer
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