Victor M201 Rat Trap (Pack of 12)

Well I came home after being away... ...I noticed the chick feed was gotten into...and then I noticed a something had made its way into my home as well. UGH..I looked everywhere and when I opened a cabinet door. There I was face to face with that rat.. I must have looked like a cartoon. I screamed grabbed a broom and tried to chase that critter out of the house.......well I cleaned everywhere and threw out the chick feed and need to buy a steel can with a lid...my mistake of course not doing that in the first place...well it took hours to clean up where they had been...and we found the opening and repaired the sheet rock...so I bought these traps and it worked well. You do need to anchor the traps so the critters to do not run and die somewhere you won't be able to find them...they are the best product and if you have pets no chemicals that will harm your dog, cats or chickens etc etc ...plenty of videos on you tube...Definitely use work gloves to set the trap......Well no more rats and I have extra traps left because you never know...

I use these old fashion rat traps to trap flying squirrels that invade our basement during the winter. How do they get in the basement? We don't have a clue but they make a mess if you let them. So I trap them. This is the best trap I have found for that purpose. Just be careful because I suspect it could break a finger if you aren't careful.

Tried to find info on when this design was introduced and couldn't find anything solid, but the company this design came from started making traps in the 1850's. I've yet to find or hear of "a better mouse trap" design than this. I have the Victor M240 electric rat trap I paid $40 for it and have never caught a single thing in it. It was a waste of money. How many of these M201 snap traps could I have bought for $40? So far while the electric trap is baited and set in the garage...and caught NOTHING...I've killed 2 rats with this wooden snap trap. In my opinion, this is the best, most effective rat trap. All the others are hype and marketing. The plastic traps break, the electric traps short out once a dead rat urinates on the floor plates (assuming it works at all), and poison is unreliable and inhumane.People complain of rodents stealing bait and not getting trapped. The problem isn't super genius rats. It's cockroaches. Roaches eat the bait but are too small and light to trigger the trap.A couple tips on how I use them: I use peanut butter because--unlike cheese and solid foods--the rats can't steal it; they have to lick it off. I spray some pesticide on a paper towel and swab the trigger. Then I use a tooth pick to smear some peanut butter in the small opening in the trigger plate. The insects won't eat the bait because of the pesticide. The rats don't seem to be discouraged by the pesticide. I reuse my traps. I check the taps daily and immediately discard any dead rats. Don't leave a dead rat in a trap. The smell of the dead rat will soak into the wood of the trap and no other rat will touch that trap again. Rats can smell much better than we can. The dead rat doesn't have to stink to high heaven to discourage the other rats. Just a few hours of death can be long enough to foul the trap. Check them daily and clean them as soon as they've been used.Using these methods, seems to be reliably successful.

just what I wanted

So, we have used these traps for many years (too many I'm afraid). Based on some reviews, we recently tried one of the similar Victor rat traps equipped with the yellow plastic bait plate. What a disappointment those were. Back to using these proven units.One hint to really make them work: Cut a small (1-1/2" x 3/8") piece of microfiber towel, terry cloth towel or some similar porous or fluffy surface material. Thread this strip of cloth through the curled section of the copper bait plate, then use pliers to crimp the teeth of the plate down onto the cloth. Saturate the cloth will an oily and gooey peanut butter, (the cheap house brands seem to be the oiliest and gooiest), gob some additional peanut butter onto the cloth and spread just a bit of peanut butter around the trap base around the bait-plate, then set the trap. Using this method offers the rats something to bit onto and pull on, virtually guaranteeing they will trigger the trap and not just escape with your bait.Unfortunately our grove is and always will be loaded with rats and other vermin, and experience has proven to us that these traps are the most dependable ones available.

Affordable and quick

Fabulous! These are the only traps that work and consistently catch mice/rats. Have tried all the other gimmicky traps. Old school is best sometimes.

The old version was much easier to set. The new version trips too easily. If you put the slightest bit of peanut butter or anything with weight in the yellow plastic piece, it trips while you’re setting it up. The old version with all metal was much better.