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.

That's a lot of rats. What's the food source attracting them?

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.

Looks like that one got caught by some loose skin. Almost got away so it seems.

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.

How did you rig and set the 120's?

Blind set with a wooden coni pan. Just setting travel ways. They're almost too smart to bait set.

Some fine coyote bait right there

man 54 rats is a lot , sure hope you get rid of them all,

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.

Very nice

Gosh Carl 48 from one house is my record, but I think that was around 3 weeks or a little more.

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You need a couple baahn cats...fixed it for yah

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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Here's #56. Mama was number 51 and now I'm catching her half grown litter one by one.

I love trapping mice and rats around my place.

Nice work!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rats are intelligent. they are neophobic too, they are wary of new things in their established environment.

I agree with BP when he says,

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?

keep going, you are doing great!!!!

I you went such a pig, you might not have a problem.
Clean up the sti…..

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Vinke

(Not in a gay way)

Yeah, you're probably right.

Love back atcha Vink

#61

I hope this is the last litter-mate of this batch since I killed mama. I'm thinking she was #51? Took almost two weeks for this 1.5 LS to connect under the cabins front porch. Day before yesterday caught a dink about the size of a large deer mouse and that being three days after I caught another adult female in my barn/fur shed.