Didn't have any steel out and all caught up on put up. So I decided to have a little fun catching mice. Got 40 this week using 5 traps.

I like the Victors with the plastic cheese for a pan. I use peanut butter on it.

I'll make bait with them later this spring. Anyone selling them to bait makers or pet shops?

Anyone else trapping mice. I caught these all in the barn and out at the brush pile.

I caught 2 mice in my weasel boxes

Yep just pulled one out of a weasel box also. I trap them during the warm months especially in the fall to grind up for bait.

I like this trap with peanut butter...

Yellow pans are good for blind set along wall.

Also, I use a piece of Cotton Ball (nesting material) thru hole in yellow pan. Nesting material will kill females = less mice.

That's a good idea with the nesting material. Have had mice clean the peanut butter off the pans without tripping the trap.

I trap a couple gallons a year and buy a cou0le gallons

Place Peanut Butter UNDER the pan. Smear on bottom of pan.

Yep, I run a September mouse line too.

Hern, I've never seen a trap like the one in the first picture. I like the "well" for the bait
That wood stream trap is also one I used to have.
I like the blind set along the wall too. I catch lots of moles in the barn that way in the fall.
They'll eat the mice or other moles if you leave them in the trap too long

Yes Sir, I like to make my own ground mouse bait. Ive noticed that they taint very fast. This year I'm going to grind some up with no taint.
I've also had good results on red fox putting a whole frozen mouse in a dirt hole. I usually put it in so you can just see the tip of its nose or part of the tail.
I put the old peanut butter out to dry for a few weeks. This makes it less creamy. I make sure the little well on the back of the pan is full of the stiffer peanut butter. Seems to keep them from robbing the bait

Turtledale, trap is a Victor with a bait bowl in center of pan. (model number CM 392)

Here's updated version-
https://www.amazon.com/Victor-M142-...ber+CM+392&qid=1705777783&sr=8-3

Hern Thank you I just ordered some. 3 for $6.28. Seems like a deal to me.

Love that bait cup too, but have found that the little plastic dog catch is very fragile, and will break off quickly in use.

There was a time when I got bored, I use to set up a barn, feed grain building or outbuilding framed structures with a bunch of snap traps. I only used blind sets along the walls and corners. Once set I would go in and move things around, make noise and shuffle anything that may harbor mice or nest sites. Shelves also. I use to catch a bunch in a weekend.

I could hear many of the traps fire when I was doing this. It was a hoot.

When I was 10 I lived a year in Costa Rica. I was smitten with a little girl from a poor family. Well they had a dirt floor in their house and mice would come out looking for crumbs while we all sat at the table.

Next time I came calling I brought a mouse trap and got to watch mouse after mouse get caught in my very presence!

Golly I loved that girl!

Welcomed.
I ordered a 3 pack as well, 'cause I don't have that model.

You guys are having wa-a-a-a-a-ay too much fun !