I spend the summers in Northern Saskatchewan with a healthy population of mosquitoes and black flies and of course our mosquito coil supply was running low, all stores where sold out. Dam Covid, seems everybody was spending time outside. So I thought I’d try my mailbox mod. as a smudge. Worked like a charm, I bought a bag of heating pellets for $4 instead of using the $20/bag cooking pellets once I realized it would work. I have more hours on my oval tube smoker repelling mosquitoes than I have actually using the tube for it’s intended purpose.
Talking to a Conservation Officer while he was setting a bear trap he has a secret ingredient he uses to supplement the bait, in Saskatchewan they use oats and honey(low odour) in their campsites. To get the bears attention they sprinkle Liquid Smoke in and around the trap, sprinkle some on nearby trees and let the wind spread the scent. Two bears trapped in two nights. After that conversation I started putting my smoker away in the garage when not in use. MES are fairly robust but I doubt it would stand up to a bear trying to get inside.
Talking to a Conservation Officer while he was setting a bear trap he has a secret ingredient he uses to supplement the bait, in Saskatchewan they use oats and honey(low odour) in their campsites. To get the bears attention they sprinkle Liquid Smoke in and around the trap, sprinkle some on nearby trees and let the wind spread the scent. Two bears trapped in two nights. After that conversation I started putting my smoker away in the garage when not in use. MES are fairly robust but I doubt it would stand up to a bear trying to get inside.
