Victor Easy Set Mouse Trap 4 Pack M033 - Wooden Easy Set Mouse Trap - Prebaited

These traps work great. For years I just bought the standard traps and baited them myself. These come pre-scented. The scent seems to work great as I catch plenty of mice with them. I feel that the large trigger is a bit more sensitive than the classic style as well. With the old style the mice would constantly steal my bait without setting off the trap. It does seem to lose its scent if it sits too long. When you first open the package you can smell the scent. If left for a long period the scent seems to dissipate (this could be an issue if you buy a four pack and only set one or two. In this case I would suggest keeping unused traps in a ziplock bag). If after a month or so I have not had any mouse activity I feel like I should add some peanut butter for good measure. Pros: Easy to set No need for bait Very easy to trigger Cons: A little pricier than the classic version Scent eventually wears off (to my nose, maybe not to a mouse)

Mouse traps. I have used a few models over the years including Victor metal pedal, Victor plastic pedal, Victor M162S, one model of snap traps and a few brands of glue traps. I NEVER caught a mouse in a snap trap. The Victor M162S traps seem to work ok. Glue traps, well, they work to be sure but given enough time a mouse can actually escape. If they can drag the glue trap to some place where they can use leverage to pry themselves off the trap, they will. I use them, but the basic Victor traps are the most effective. Plus, more often than not you have a live mouse you have to euthanize. No big deal, but for some a daunting task. Without question the most effective means of trapping mice is the tried and true Victor mouse traps both metal pedal and plastic pedal. I am currently using the plastic pedal ones. Plus, if you are the squeamish type and don’t want to touch the trap after use you can throw the whole thing away mouse trap, mouse and all and you’re out about a dollar. A basic trap that is effective in use as well as being cost effective. What more can you ask for?

These things work great. I had been using a live trap Smart Mouse Trap - Humane Mousetrap . It worked very well at first but one of the critters must of figured out how to steal the bait last winter without setting it off and told all the others because since then all I've had was disappearing bait and no more trapped mice to transport to the woods. So, as the mouse invasion season began again (otherwise known as autumn), I decided to go the heartless route with the kill traps before the infestation became worse. First I tried the d-CON 00027 Ultra Set Covered Mouse Trap and D-Con No View, No Touch Mouse Trap . The former I couldn't get to set properly.. it kept going off with no mouse caught. The latter was a two pack... one went off several nights after I set it out. It was really, really nice that the dead mouse was out of sight; however, a mouse was sighted after that and the second trap, even moved to the "prime" mouse catching location, still hasn't gone off. So I decided to try these (primarily because they are so inexpensive). I was amazed at how well they work. Takes a bit of tinkering to set and you have to be careful when placing them so as to not trigger them but so far I've set out the first 4-pack along the baseboard in the kitchen and caught 4 dead mice within two nights without needing any bait and without any triggered traps sans mouse. Still feeling guilty about killing them (which seeing the squished things exacerbates) but definitely satisfied with the effectiveness of the product.

These mouse traps are a shadow of their former selves. The wood is cut thinner and of a less dense species making it much lighter, the spring and wire snap are much much smaller gauge wire so the snap is slower and less powerful, the "trigger cheese" is thinner and not as well molded, and assembly is much shabbier quality than the older ones. Because of these changes the catch rate is lower, the kills aren't as clean, and I fear not nearly as quick leading to needless suffering. I also find I frequently have to bait these with a little peanut butter which I rarely had to do with the old ones. All that being said they still catch more mice than any other trap I've tried so I keep using them. I always keep my eyes open at old hardware stores, flea markets, and so on for packs of the older ones. I don't STRONGLY recommend these traps, but they do catch more mice than any other I've found. Three stars are just all I can muster.

I have officially dubbed myself the Verminator. There are no words to express how one feels after uncovering a cleanly caugh nuisance. We started a tally board in our kitchen. It's that much fun. I probably shouldn't be getting this much excitement out of setting traps, but it's just so freeing to know my bulbs will live to see another bloom & my garden will produce a better harvest. Need to know: We have both moles AND voles. The neighbor loves their ivy which gives great ground cover & my yard provides the food. The voles seem to be using the same tunnels as the moles so it's a win-win for us. The most active run to date sits between the ivy & our compost pile. What we do: 1. Spot the tell-tale "broomstick" hole or freshly dug run in the soil. 2. Dig down being careful not to loose where the entry branches into the tunnel, or the hole to the run. Be sure to dig a hole deep & wide enough to fit two traps. Keep the base of the traps level to the moles/voles run so there's no chance they miss it. 3. Clear the tunnel/run of extra dirt/debris so it's not kicked back onto the traps causing them to be prematurely set off 4. Set trap (we don't use bait, the ants get to it before the moles/voles do) 5. Place traps directly infront of the holes to the run (see pics) We anchored ours with a rock when I happened to watch a mole push the trap out of the way and scurry around it (•_•) Yeah. 6. Cover (we decided it was best to keep the kids & other animals safe & used an old plastic seedling cover) 7. Check often. We purchased two types of Vector traps. These and the newer M143S. While the luxury of having an extra release bar on the M143S is very appealing, the old fashion Easy Set traps have seriously out performed the plastic traps. Arrived: March 31, 2016 Date of review: April 9, 2016 Tally: Voles: 5, Moles: 12 Will be buying another set of these today.

Please understand - I live in Alaska where trapping is still a way of life for some that I support, but in any kind trapping I believe in a quick kill. I have an infestation of red-backed voles eating up my garden in summer and digesting my lawn under snow cover all winter. These guys have got to go! Last year I used the standard mouse trap, where the bait draws the vole's head close in to get the food, springing the trap down on its head for a pretty quick kill. The reason I'm unhappy with these Victor M038 traps is they appear to be designed to snap as a vole or mouse runs across it. After putting them out I quickly trapped three voles, but two were trapped at the front shoulder, another by the hindquarter. In all cases the voles did not die quickly and were thrashing about in the trap, leaving me to kill them quickly by stomping on them with my booted foot. Definitely unpleasant but better than letting them thrash their way to a slow death. I hesitated but then decided to pull all my M038 traps as I just didn't feel good about their trapping method. I still have to reduce the vole population but will return to the old style that lures their head in under the snap bar, and not random body parts, and are just as effective.

Reviewer Publius is correct when saying: "So in short, 1) Pull the spring trap back 2)Lay the hook all the way down on top of the spring 3)Slowly lift the cheese up just to the point it catches on the hook". In fact, Victor is the only brand I know making this style trap that really does work. Smaller Mice can be very light on their feet, and clever, and you really do need a trap with a 'hair trigger'. You do need to set the trap so that the wire is barely under the tab on the cheese platform to achieve that hair trigger. Anyone who gets their finger bit by one of these traps (ouch!) is simply handling it incorrectly. If you don't want to get bit don't put you fingers in the line of fire! Recently Orchard Supply Hardware dropped the entire line of Victor traps for a lower cost brand called TomCat. The TomCat traps look exactly the same, but they can't be set with that all important hair trigger. Thus the mice at my place were getting a nice meal of peanut butter every night. I also tried one other brand when I couldn't get the victor and it too failed to spring. And yes, peanut butter works better than cheese on our brand of meeeces. But not that natural, wholesome style peanut butter that is a bit runny and needs to be mixed well each time you open the jar. That's for people. No, you want the Jiff brand for mice. That stuff sticks to the trap platform like glue, and the mice have to wrestle it out of the holes... and that activity is what springs the trap. I suppose Skippy would do in a pinch. It's a shame I had to order a mouse trap online, but I could hear the mice moaning in the dark corners of my house when I clicked the submit button on my Amazon order.

I'm back here buying more. This is a great, sensitive trap. I agree if the pedal is lifted too high it doesn't remain set, so I don't lift the pedal very high (of course!). I use american cheese slices on the cheese pedal even though the description says it's not needed. We didn't realize we had a mouse problem until they started living in the air filter in our minivan, and even delivered baby mice in there. It was bad, and yes, embarrassing because the smell was horrible. It began smelling like a farm when the air was running, but when one got stuck and died, whoa was that a rough time. But that's another story for another day... we eradicated them once and they moved in a second time, so we searched the garage for clues. We should have noticed the mouse droppings earlier, and tapping on the sheet rock (!) made more mouse droppings fall to the floor. Apparently they love styrofoam insulation. I certainly *don't* love styrofoam insulation. We set 4 of these exact traps along the path and they've caught 3 mice over the past 6 months, 2 right away and another after quite a while. We caught a total of 5 mice so far, the other two being snagged by glue traps early on. The problem with glue traps is I need to kill the mouse myself, one time a mouse chewed itself free, and when we left a glue trap out for a few months it gathered some bugs and then a small bird flew in to eat the bugs (we're guessing) and it got caught, too :(. We also set out a couple cheap circular "trap door" types in the same area but they didn't catch anything. So now we just keep 4 of these victors out all the time along the garage edge.