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that the idea of the drag is to delay the progress of the wolf, and should 

 be arranged so that he will not get hung up and get a dead pull and 

 be able to break off and get away. 



It is advisable in trapping for wolf to cover the trap and chain 

 as well as the drag. This can be done by placing a thin sheet of clean 

 paper over the jaws and pan of the trap, so that the dirt you use 

 for covering will not get under the pan of the trap and prevent it 

 from springing. See that the hole containing the trap is covered 

 over and that the surroundings look as natural as before the digging 

 was done. A little cotton under the pan of the trap will prevent it 

 from freezing ever so slightly, because to trap the wolf the spring 

 must work fast or he will step out and get away. Some traps have 

 a small hole in the pan, or a small hole is drilled through the pan, 

 and a sliver of wood about the size of a toothpick is forced through 

 it so as to hold the pan stiff enough to prevent a small mouse or 

 some other small animal from running over it and tripping the pan. 



Some trappers recommend wearing gloves in the setting of traps 

 to prevent the human odor from being around the trap, but we do 

 not believe that this is advisable since the gloves will carry the human 

 odor as well as the hands. It is advisable to handle traps as little 

 as possible, and for this reason we recommend the Wonder Trap 

 Setter, for with this device the trapper can set the trap without 

 touching it with the bare hands at all. 



United States Rangers after exhaustive tests say this about wolf 

 trapping, "Success in trapping wolves depends largely on the use of 

 scents that will attract the wolf to the neighborhood of the trap and 

 keep them tramping and pawing around until caught. Meat bait 

 alone is of little use, for as a rule the wolf kills ample food for himself." 



If you succeed in catching a wolf you can reasonably expect to 

 catch others at the same spot, as they will be attracted to the spot 

 by the odor of the other wolf, and they can not resist prowling around 

 it to find out what happened. One trapper reports having caught 

 nine wolves at the same spot, due to the fact that the other wolves 

 were attracted there by the odors left by the previous captives. 

 After you have used scent to attract wolf to a certain spot, it is not 

 advisable to use more scent, but depend on the natural odor left by 

 the first wolf to attract others. 



If you can find a runway or travelled trail of a pack of wolves, 

 you can set your traps in this trail and have reasonable assurance that 

 they will come that way again. The wolf is pretty much a creature 

 of habit and will go back and forth over the same trail even at long 



