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Rat # 54 #8474042
09/22/25 11:26 AM
09/22/25 11:26 AM
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Oregon
beaverpeeler Offline OP
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Oregon
Since January of this year. Worst year I've ever seen for rats. Only one was caught in a conventional rat trap, the rest in 120's or #1 long springs. Don't know how many poison got. They mostly left it alone.

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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8474065
09/22/25 12:38 PM
09/22/25 12:38 PM
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That's a lot of rats. What's the food source attracting them?


Eh...wot?

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8474071
09/22/25 01:05 PM
09/22/25 01:05 PM
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For my money the best barn rat trap ever made is a #1 jump. I fasten them to a brick, set trap between brick and wall.

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8474075
09/22/25 01:13 PM
09/22/25 01:13 PM
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Looks like that one got caught by some loose skin. Almost got away so it seems.

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: Lugnut] #8474106
09/22/25 02:22 PM
09/22/25 02:22 PM
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Oregon
beaverpeeler Offline OP
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Oregon
Originally Posted by Lugnut
That's a lot of rats. What's the food source attracting them?


I'm working on that. My large garbage bin is not rat proof but as soon as time permits I'll make it so. In February and March it was my trapshed-barn with feet and fleshings the big attraction. I don't have any livestock currently so animal feed is not an issue.

And almost forgot, the black walnut trees next to my house drew them in big time too. Have found bunches of rat chewed out walnuts under my house.

Last edited by beaverpeeler; 09/22/25 02:33 PM.

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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8474112
09/22/25 02:45 PM
09/22/25 02:45 PM
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How did you rig and set the 120's?


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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8474425
09/23/25 12:41 AM
09/23/25 12:41 AM
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Oregon
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Blind set with a wooden coni pan. Just setting travel ways. They're almost too smart to bait set.


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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8474433
09/23/25 03:28 AM
09/23/25 03:28 AM
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Some fine coyote bait right there


Let me sugar coat this
Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8474438
09/23/25 04:52 AM
09/23/25 04:52 AM
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man 54 rats is a lot , sure hope you get rid of them all,

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8474556
09/23/25 10:02 AM
09/23/25 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
Blind set with a wooden coni pan. Just setting travel ways. They're almost too smart to bait set.


That sounds like a good option. I don't have rats to try it on, but a variation would be a fine tuned 110 set along run, normal wire triggers offset to the side away from the wall. Cardboard square slipped over the trigger wires, with 1" to 1 1/4" hole in lower corner along wall side. Cardboard blocks the run, and hole in lower corner being the way thru. Offset like that amplifies the sensitivity of the trigger wires. They touch it to crawl thru and it goes BANG!

U-tube took them down, but used to be a trapper guy out of Alabama that put up some good trail cam videos catching big Norway rats in the wooden snap traps......Victor's and such. Rats so big kill bar hit them on the forehead vs. behind the ears. Knocked them out, but later got up and walked away. A 110 size seems about perfect for those big rats.


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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8474829
09/23/25 07:08 PM
09/23/25 07:08 PM
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Very nice


NRA,NTA,MTA,FTA

#1 goal=Trap a wolverine
Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8475011
09/23/25 10:02 PM
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Gosh Carl 48 from one house is my record, but I think that was around 3 weeks or a little more.

wws

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8475014
09/23/25 10:07 PM
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You need a couple baahn cats...fixed it for yah


It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8475024
09/23/25 10:24 PM
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The rats around here are big, standard pussycat can’t handle them. My jack russle kills them though. Gotta remember Beaverpeeler’s rats are used to eating beaver scraps. Jumbos!

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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8476510
09/26/25 11:07 AM
09/26/25 11:07 AM
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Oregon
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Here's #56. Mama was number 51 and now I'm catching her half grown litter one by one.

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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8476526
09/26/25 11:24 AM
09/26/25 11:24 AM
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I love trapping mice and rats around my place.

Nice work!

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8476538
09/26/25 12:07 PM
09/26/25 12:07 PM
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they are pissing me off at my place i really like the cardboard hole idea on a 110 i can set that up. they ignore the victor rat traps blind set or baited. been usung sticky traps lately and they have been better on the young of the year ones but still havent gotten mama or daddy. will keep after it. after listening to my wife say what kinda trapper are you? cant even catch these rats.......i love her but that was a low blow lol.

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: MuddyMike] #8476551
09/26/25 12:36 PM
09/26/25 12:36 PM
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Oregon
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Originally Posted by MuddyMike
they are pissing me off at my place i really like the cardboard hole idea on a 110 i can set that up. they ignore the victor rat traps blind set or baited. been usung sticky traps lately and they have been better on the young of the year ones but still havent gotten mama or daddy. will keep after it. after listening to my wife say what kinda trapper are you? cant even catch these rats.......i love her but that was a low blow lol.


Rats are worthy adversaries. I would put them on the upper spectrum for trap avoidance among furbearers.


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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8479253
10/01/25 03:32 PM
10/01/25 03:32 PM
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Oregon
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Since in another thread someone asked about my up-to-date total...here is yesterday's catch which makes #57. I've been catching all the half grown rats from big mama rat which was #51. Probably at least a couple more to go I suspect.

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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8479284
10/01/25 04:40 PM
10/01/25 04:40 PM
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What in the world do you have around your place that is drawing them in? I think I'd get rid of whatever that is.

Last edited by trapdog1; 10/01/25 04:50 PM.
Re: Rat # 54 [Re: trapdog1] #8479286
10/01/25 04:50 PM
10/01/25 04:50 PM
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Iowa
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Iowa
Originally Posted by trapdog1
What in the world do you have around your place that is drawing them in? I think I'd get rid of whatever that is.

x2 Gross.

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8479322
10/01/25 06:45 PM
10/01/25 06:45 PM
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I used to trap rats in a grain elevator, back in the early '70's.
They are smart.
We'd set in travel ways.
Catch a rat and that would be it.
Had to move the trap to catch another one.

I always hated those buggers.
But back in the day they were worth a quarter ea., thats over $2.00 in todays money.

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8479345
10/01/25 07:24 PM
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Rats are intelligent. they are neophobic too, they are wary of new things in their established environment.

I agree with BP when he says,

Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
Rats are worthy adversaries. I would put them on the upper spectrum for trap avoidance among furbearers.


Eh...wot?

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8479486
10/01/25 11:22 PM
10/01/25 11:22 PM
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Oregon
beaverpeeler Offline OP
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Oregon
Every thing is about the same as last year as far as attractiveness to my place for rats. In 2023-24 I caught zero. There were no rats. We do have neighbors that feed feral cats and others who have chickens. Need I say more?


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Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8479505
10/02/25 05:05 AM
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keep going, you are doing great!!!!

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: beaverpeeler] #8479558
10/02/25 07:46 AM
10/02/25 07:46 AM
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I you went such a pig, you might not have a problem.
Clean up the sti…..

Love
Vinke

(Not in a gay way)


Ant Man/ Marty 2028
just put your ear to the ground , and follow along

Re: Rat # 54 [Re: Vinke] #8479667
10/02/25 11:52 AM
10/02/25 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Vinke
I you went such a pig, you might not have a problem.
Clean up the sti…..

Love
Vinke

(Not in a gay way)


Yeah, you're probably right.

Love back atcha Vink


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