I ran a trap line as a youngster. As I recall, beeswax was used to both protect the iron trap from rusting and to act as a lubricant to speed up the tripping mechanism. The traps were placed in a boiling tub of water with beeswax and as the traps were lifted out they would be coated with the wax. To my knowledge it was never ment to camouflage any smell.

Billy Smart
Rock, KS





Last year two hunter/trappers wanted to buy some wax to "camouflage" the
smell in the traps that had caught bobcats and the like.

Yoon

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