Beaver Castor

[Jacktheknife]

I have some dried Castor and would like to 'hydrate it,  as to make it 'undried'. To use in bait and lure.
      I have heard that 'tincturing' meaning to soak in alcohol, is one way.
I imagine soaking the Castor in most anything would help. Beaver oil,
Mineral oil, glycerene, urine, ect   Something watery, oily, alcohol, ?
But I am going out the shed today, and try and mix castor with Cat urine as that is what I have most of, and what I would like most to catch.
I also have molasses, corn oil, Coyote gland lure, should I use alcohol?
Urine? something oily like mineral oil?  Or just a little of everything?
What does alcohol do? besides preserve it?  Alcohol, let it sit a month,  then mix with lure?
Urine, will it do the same thing as alcohol?  Is an oily substance good?
Does it matter?  Should I try everything or is there some stuff better than others?                            
                             Ya'll please help me with some input,  

                                                            Thanks  Knife

[Asa Lenon]

Jack:
The quickest way to extract the castor odor from dried and ground castor is to tincture it in alcohol.  I use 100 proof vodka as the pure grain alcohol is hard to come by in Michigan.  Cover the castor with alcohol/vodka and give the jug a vigorous shaking every time you pass, the longer one leaves it tincturing the better.  However, the castor when placed in urine based lures will become evident in time without any added tincturing.  It takes a month or more of ageing shaking the mixture to bring out the castor odor.  The animals could probably smell it anyway but for the human nose it takes some ageing.  The odor of castor is more intense, concentrated and permeating than one would think so one must be careful how much is added to any lure formula unless all one wants to smell after ageing is the castor dominateing every other ingredient in the lure.  Generally speaking, 4 ozs of ground castor per 1 gallon of lure base is all one dare include.  Good luck!  Ace

[Jacktheknife]

Thank you sir,  Knife