I know it might be useless now, but maybe someone else would find this helpful.
When they are pups, I ALWAYS make it a huge issue to handle feet, mouth, ears, tail - all the "trouble" spots that a dog might react to.
The first time I trim nails, I guage the dogs reaction. If they are stressed and fighting me, I'll do one nail, and give a sliver of hot dog, praise them like a mad man and leave it alone. Next night, I repeat the process. Gradually, I builed up to two nails at a time, then three and so on. My dogs have always loved nail trim time because they know they get really high value treats that I save ESPECIALLY for nail trim/ear cleaning day.
I realize Buckshot is already WAY past small manageable puppy stage, but perhaps you could try the same approach. When it's quite and calm and he's sleeping, stuff some jerky in your pocket, sit down beside him, handle his feet and reward him for allowing you to handle his feet. Then without acting like anything is out of the ordinary, dremel one toe. Give him some jerky and praise him wildly. Then call it quits for the night. Next night, try the same approach. If he tolerates it better, then go for two nails the next night, and gradually build up to doing one paw at a time.
Baby talk works wonders too. With Corvus who is a MAJOR wiggle freak, I have to baby talk him to keep his gnat like attention span on my voice rather than me clipping his nails. Brat.