Metal Pedal Sustainably Sourced FSC Wood Snap Mouse Trap - 20 Wooden Traps - M156-20 - Snap Traps for Mice - Reusable or Disposable Mouse Trap

We caught a mouse hours after setting it. Either the mouse was very dumb or the trap was incredibly effective. I would recommend this product.

This 20-pack of mouse traps work great and are easy to use. I'll generally just reuse them for while before throwing them away when a mouse gets really stuck to it. They definitely don't have to be one-time use, especially if you check your traps daily. Also, pricing varies throughout the year, so check price history and with a bit of patience you can likely grab these on sale. Peanut butter bait works the best! Happy hunting...lol.

Victor traps have worked best for me for many years. But sometimes a smart rat or mouse can outwit any trap. I was glad to find 20 of them in a deal as I have decided to make a mouse mine field to catch whatever is under my sink. Hopefully this will do the trick. I'll update with the results. I bored small holes in the traps and mounted each one with a screw onto a piece of ply board. This thing is like nitro glycerin, if one goes off most of the others will. Not for someone which is afraid of this type of trap.

Works great but staples holding spring come off after a few uses. Trigger is sensitive and catches even small mice. I load the trigger with peanut butter which makes mice atheistically go after the bait and trigger it. I use wire to fix the broken staple issue.

Great devices for that big game safari around the farm!

These have just not been tested properly - The resistance arms that actually cause the snapping are not curled over the edge enough so that if it gets out of alignment, it either: stops working and is a one time use. OR is dangerous while setting - case in point, it snapped on my finger while I was just setting the trap. They make proper ones that I have bought in the store where there is a little curl on the resistance arm that actually protects it and makes it reusable and safe. I would not recommend this product at all, and think it's dangerous.

I recall having to set mousetraps as a kid in the 80's... Back then, the traps had a mechanism that required the setter to adjust the sensitivity manually. Although I had confidence and very sure hands, many of traps set off prematurely in attempt to kill a finger or two. Between then and now, there was advancement in engineering specific to that mechanism. And this advancement allows the setter to have fingers out of line of fire while setting... Although not impossible to have one go off in your hand, it's likely to only "bark" and not "bite." Brilliant! And the effectiveness of the trap remains same--in my case i estimate I kill the mouse 75% of time vs losing bait with trap remaining set. I'll note that I've changed since the 80's in that i really hate killing mice nowadays... Pretty sure I looked forward to it when in my youth. Killing them is necessary evil though as they are ridiculously fast to procreate and will chew wiring, pilfer food, build nests, defecate everywhere. I target them in my outbuildings and these traps are relatively humane--usually a 'lights out' kill. If dealing with mice infestation, I encourage use of mechanical trap vs poison. The poison is a relative slow death, can put other animals at risk, and tough telling what the full life of the poison actually is as you'll likely never dispose of the mouse--it may go out into nature, die, then poison another animal. In addition, these traps are reusable... The only way poison is reused is as a undesired side-effect. Hope this helps. Good luck! Update 3/23: I'm still happy with these traps. I've used 8 traps and have set them repeatedly (~20 times each) and none have failed mechanically. However, I encountered 'elite' mice with extreme keenness to trap operations... Regardless of how well I tucked peanut butter into the tray, they could clean it without setting off trap. So I resorted to modifying the trap. Using a needle-nose, I slightly pressed in the horizontal steel (located above tray) that contacts the wire bar. Success. I visibly marked these traps as they are more difficult to set--they sound like a firecracker going off in your hand... Luckily, I've spared my digits to this point.

first set i bought worked great. my second purchase ( the large, value bag), so far 2 of them went off & sadly, didn't immediately end the life of the mouse. 1 I found injured & pacing in circles then he crawled up my leg & perched himself on my shoulder & i felt awful, cried, bathed him, bought him a mouse house & nurses him back to health. yes. i really did. second trap i had that i had forgotten about, went off, severely injuring the mouse, he made it a few feet away from the trap and there was blood everywhere. he passed. not sure how i feel about this, may look into a humane trap.