After a couple weeks of dinking around trying to catch a trap shy mouse with my cheap traps I was ready to relent and resort to glue traps. When I went to get the glue trap I saw these plastic Victor traps, picked up a pair of them and baited one with butter, caught two problem mice in about 2 hours. I normally hate stuff that looks gimmicky and plastic but these Victor traps are awesome, easy to set and hard to rob the bait due to the recessed bait holder.

What bait do you guys like for long term mouse sets? Peanut butter has been my go to but thinking about changing it up. For short term sets I'm really liking butter.

I think others have posted about similar traps. Seems the dog tends to break on them, but you may get enough use out of 1 to make it worth it. I like Victor cheese pan traps myself.

I haven't saw the cheese pan Victor's in store lately, I had these knock offs and quality was okay but some of them were real touchy. We've had a ton of mice in the house this year, not sure why

Get some Victor Quick Kills.

I agree with the op. This is a better mouse trap. I rarely have an empty trap with these. Also I catch a lot of the from the side which I don't really recall doing much with the old style traps. I've had mine about six months and no problems so far. Super easy to set and I haven't had one go off in my hand.

I like the Victor Tin Cat knockoffs. If you don't need the mice and occasional shew for anything and if they are somewhere the smell doesn't matter, you can pretty much set them against a wall and forget about them, while they continue working.

Inside the house, I just keep cats. Mice are a non issue in a non cluttered house with cats, not saying my house isn't cluttered.

Keith

[quote=Donnersurvivor]After a couple weeks of dinking around trying to catch a trap shy mouse with my cheap traps I was ready to relent and resort to glue traps. When I went to get the glue trap I saw these plastic Victor traps, picked up a pair of them and baited one with butter, caught two problem mice in about 2 hours. I normally hate stuff that looks gimmicky and plastic but these Victor traps are awesome, easy to set and hard to rob the bait due to the recessed bait holder.

What bait do you guys like for long term mouse sets? Peanut butter has been my go to but thinking about changing it up. For short term sets I'm really liking butter.




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I think peanut butter is the best bait, long lasting and catches most mice. My ma used butter to catch some mouse mice, but thankfully haven’t seen one of those for years.

I have used most styles of traps and those plastic ones are nice ifin you don’t want to touch the mice, but I still catch most mice with the plastic cheese pan victors whether it’s mouse size or rat size

I like these after the victor cheese pan, but I recommend staking them down

I just poison the heck outta them little bass....

Glue traps

We also have a couple of these, and they can be pretty fun. Just set them along the wall as a walk through.

super glue on a kernel of corn
I smear PB under the pan, thin like

I tried a glue trap once, Now I've killed lots of stuff, but I felt a little sorry for the little bugger, still alive and covered with glue...I prefer trapping them dead....
Have noticed that after awhile the traps stop working with bait as well , then I go with the the rat traps against the wall and nail them as they run across the trap....

Forgot about the kernel of corn, mostly use it for red squirrels but catch a few mice too. I drill a small hole and use fine wire it on and also add a little peanut butter

The one on the left looks poorly made. I had a couple similar to that one and the staples pulled out when it fired. Is that a Victor? Can't believe that would sell a trap like that.

I tried those and had mice get out of them. And you are right, they need to be staked down. I actually had a mouse run off with one.

jaws...not victor

melted choclote is the best bait, if the mice dosnt steal the bait(which it rarley does) then you can store em somehwere till you use them next and as long as it isnt hot they will be good till the next use without a mess

Bucket with water with rv antifreeze, beer can on wire smeared with peanut butter rotating on top of the bucket with a ramp up to the edge of the bucket. Works continuously never stops, catches multiple mice. Put one in an old mice infested camp one time, caught 15 mice the 1st night.

Love those bait cup traps, however, the dog is very fragile, and that's what always fails.