I love these old style Victor traps. Simple, cheap, and effective. I found two victims this morning. Hoping for more tonight. 👍

THANK YOU FOR HAVING A CLOSE-UP OF THE ARM!! I watched 5+ videos that did not address the arm being set horizontally; fantastic short, and to the point instructional video. Thank you!

@piggy310

Жыл бұрын

What other way is there to set it?!

Helpful video. But I wish the packaging had a better close up of attaching the arm to the bait so I didn't have to look this up.

Been using these for a few years. 100% my favorite trap. I have learned a few tricks to make them more effective on small mice that are able to clean the peanut butter out from even the inside of that pedal. The latch bar hook can be bent away from the camera side to make it more sensitive, I also crimp the bait loop down on the near side as shown so they are forced to lick and push the pedal from the far side. caught two in the last hour after they've been cleaning them of the bait this last week.

@Krowe2020

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips! But, what's the 'camera' side? Is that a typo? Ya, I tried Google. 😂 Ty in advance for your time. Ps. Would you make a video of how you place the arm differently & how you crimp? Ty!

@vabsauz7132

4 ай бұрын

I agree I think I'll be needing these tips. I have a feeling my mice are going to be pains in the ass. ​@@Krowe2020

Every day I've been catching a mouse with these traps. They're great. Once you get the hang of latching the trigger, they are very effective. You don't even need much bait. Just a thin coating of peanut butter does the job.

@predeem1629

5 жыл бұрын

Do you have to place it perpendicular to the wall? I just learned how to set mine and placed it parallel right beside the wall. I don't want to move it and set it off..lol

@MilesSherry

4 жыл бұрын

The video tells which direction is best.

FYI - I've heard crunchy peanut butter is more effective than regular peanut butter. Takes the mice more effort to eat the crunchy stuff, and therefore will make it more likely they'll set the trigger.

Tip: Let the kill bar release a little from your hold to set in the arm bar to latch.

Oh, I didn't think about getting my scent on it. Thanks.

@JENDALL714

2 жыл бұрын

Mice don't care about your scent, that's a myth, if they did, they wouldn't be in your house or anywhere that there are humans and you would never have a rodent problem!

Serious snapback, amazing product! People like to complain.

Glue a piece of dog or cat food on the petal so it has to chew on it instead of just licking bait off.

Very nice video with good quality and clear instructions on how to set a mouse trap.

Thanks for having this here!

loving it

Very good, useful video.

Thanks, the packaging and website doesn't give a very detailed image of where the latch is positioned, I usually have used the trap with the plastic tab to latch the hook to.

keep calm and love victor pest

The curl on the pedal has teeth on it. Take a peanut or cashew and gently press it into the teeth so it's lodged in good. Could also tie it down with thread. Then slop peanutbutter on top. Make sure you give it a nice soft-serve swirl on top. Presentation is key here.

If you don't want to lose an eye. Stay away from this trap. They need to reinforce the two nails that is holding down the spring. Almost snap my finger and lose an eye when one of the nail came flying off.

@RicksDigitalMarketing

5 ай бұрын

You're not supposed to sit there and play with it 😂

Thank you !!

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I put peanut button on the metal piece not just in the little hole. Mice dead: 0. I have the old type trap with the big yellow pedal. Mice dead: 2

@piggy310

Жыл бұрын

This is the "old style" , your comment makes zero sense.

I applied my peanut butter with my bare hands and found the trap licked clean about an hour later. They don't care about your scent! 😂

GRACIAS

I don't understand about the "not transferring the scent". The mouse will not eat it if there is human scent?

@PlatypusVomit

6 жыл бұрын

They aren't shy about eating crap in our shop with human scent on it. But, anything you can do to make the traps more effective is worth doing. I wear nitrile gloves working in the shop anyway, so a fresh pair before touching the traps is just fine with me. So far, I've been fairly successful.

I put a piece of cheese or mold tootsie roll around the bar and not the copper part where the bar latches and that has worked better then any other method

How do you make the thing that holds the bar back stay??

@TheLisajohnson77

5 жыл бұрын

ikr!

@ScoCoda

4 жыл бұрын

You have to be really delicate and patient. It will take a little fiddling around the thing and once its set be very careful when moving the trap around.

@kailit9984

4 жыл бұрын

I hold it with my hand tight until I place it down and then slowly release it

@amandak.3926

4 жыл бұрын

I've been struggling with this too, spent 30m but the arm keeps falling off and doesn't hold.

Just used 2 of them. Mouse took the bait. Traps never went off.

The arms on the Victor traps I just purchased are too long to latch onto the trigger. Has anyone else had this issue or am I missing something?

@kritzler1949

8 ай бұрын

I have the same issue 0:52

Am I the only one who has a problem setting the armbar to the end copper thing. It keeps snapping back at me. I don't want to use poison because I have other animals but it's coming down to that

@jshepard152

5 жыл бұрын

These work fine. Methinks you're doing something wrong.

@ltd4895

5 жыл бұрын

power kill version worked for me within 24 hrs

@john4385

4 жыл бұрын

After watch 6 videos I finally got it hooked up and set.

Me and 40 rat traps When rats or mouses are everywhere

These things don't work. It's v difficult to get the arm bar set, and you're afraid to take your hand away, and for good reason: when you do, the trap springs. Virtually impossible to get these things safely set up.

Can you reset it?

@chermcadams4076

10 ай бұрын

Yes! I catch 15 to 20 mice using the same traps over and over before the trap breaks! One night I set 4 traps. The next morning the mouse took bait from 3 of the traps that were still set. The 4th trap got the mouse. It probably was full and took it's time eating!!!

My latch will not catch, I keep almost snapping my fingers. This has been an all day ordeal. What am I doing wrong????

@freshparadigm

7 жыл бұрын

Same here. I came on here just to see if they would address that issue.

@barnabywylde2224

7 жыл бұрын

Hold the trap so the nose of the picture of the mouse on the trap is pointed at you.Pull the bow back to the ready position Tilt your hand slightly so gravity works to help keep the retaining arm against the catch on the pedal, gradually release the bow so the tension of the bow holds the retaining arm in place.

@PlatypusVomit

6 жыл бұрын

They should've included how to adjust the sensitivity of the trap in the video. If you bend sideways the part of the trigger that catches the tension bow, you can make it more or less sensitive. You want it as sensitive as you can, so they can't eat the bait off the trigger without tripping it, but if it won't stay set until the mouse gets there you're not going to catch anything.

Ive got 4 cleaned off traps and no dead mice. What happened to the plastic trigger with more leverage?

Glue a peanut on it works way better ! Hot glue stick from a dollar store works the best just melt it with a lighter.

I’ve honestly seen mice lick off the peanut butter and the trap not go off. I suggest crazy gluing a piece of sweet cereal such as a honey nut cheerio or fruit loop. that is a better bet

@dprrn

6 ай бұрын

crimp the end down some with a set of pliers or a cheap wire stripper with the crimp tool on the end, close one end up completely and pack it with peanut butter and leave no excess. been having great results with this lately.

I apparently have Mighty Mice, bait gone and trap still set, 😢 I thought I did something wrong so I watch this video. I did like it says.

Don't just slop the bait on top, the mouse will easily steal it, stuff the bait inside that curl, so the mouse has to really get up in there to get the bait. Also, rodent's don't care about your scent, if they did, they wouldn't be in your house. A rodent would actually eat you, if it got the chance, it don't give a shit what you smell like!

@soundspark

2 жыл бұрын

My trick is to jam a nut into that curled part. Once got a mouse with its teeth locked on to the pedal.

@samueltaylor9254

5 ай бұрын

😂 true

Small amount of peanut butter you say?..... LATHERS IT ON THE FRONT PANEL. 👿👿👿😈💀💀💀☠️☠️

Unfortunate that the Victor's technical writers product such bad instructions and use such small photographs that one has to go looking for a instructional video on arming the trap. Hope the product works better than the documentation. That said, once one sees the trick in arming the trap, it makes sense and is straightforward. Watch your fingers though. ;-)

Are rats active more during the summer

@AustinFighter

8 жыл бұрын

yeh but

I like traps lol

I've always used my finger to bait the trap. I always get my mouse. Mice are stupid. I've never placed the trap with the pedal facing the wall. I always have the kill bar against the wall. I always get my mouse. My.point is....there is no right or wrong way. Mice just want to eat. They'll get caught no matter where you place these traps.

@yvonnekirk696

9 ай бұрын

100. 9clv6j

I have set this same trap 5 nights in a row added more and more peanut butter each night all over the thing and the fucking mouse doesn't even set it off.i think it's faulty but if I look at it it's trips.

@chermcadams4076

10 ай бұрын

Put a small dab of peanut butter and you're the pedal.

@chermcadams4076

10 ай бұрын

Under the pedal.

@davidd6626

5 ай бұрын

I even bought a completely different set of traps thinking the first package was defective. Naw they make them ALL defective so you buy more and more

My problem with the mouse traps is that the trigger requires too much pressure for the mouse to spring the trap so the mice are eating the bait off the pedal but the trap is not being activated. I don't have this problem with Victor rat traps. For some reason there seems to be a definite difference in quality between the mouse traps and rat traps. Unfortunately, often the mice eat the bait off the rat traps and set the rat traps off but the mice are too small to be killed by the rat traps. Sorry, but at this point I cannot recommend Victor mouse traps.

@PlatypusVomit

6 жыл бұрын

If you take a pair of pliers and tweak the catch for the drawbar, you can make it more or less sensitive. You want it as sensitive as it can be and still be able to set it. You can set it so it can be set off by tickling it with a hair if you're good enough. I also recommend trying to get some of the peanut butter bait inside the curl of the trigger, so the mouse has to work at it to get all of it out. That's done the trick for me. That, and if you bait the bottom of the trigger as well, the mouse has to play with the trigger more and runs a higher chance of setting it off. Someone suggested soaking a short cotton string in peanut butter so the mouse grabs it and sets the trap off that way. I haven't personally tried string, but logically it seems like it would work. You'd have to make sure it's short enough that they can't grab it while not far enough in to not get caught, but yeah...

@demonicmasters8520

6 жыл бұрын

I just go for the rat traps anyways

Victor. Outsmart rodents since

I used a think chicken bone to test it, cracked it like an egg shell. Just waiting for victims. Bought 4 yesterday at Walmart.

These traps suck as they’re not going off. Now I’ve just been feeding the mouse for a week.

Make sure you don't put these where your pets can get at them!

We have a lot of rats

@omarayala4799

8 жыл бұрын

+Victor Pest wwks

Your mouse traps do not work I wish I could make a video

@jackhutchison7081

4 жыл бұрын

Since you're old-fashioned mouse traps did not work the mice was just stealing my smart little I went out and got some plastic traps that the mice hat to open thank God now I am mouse free

They will not latch!!!!!!!!!!!!

These Mouse traps Must be made in China, Made A Lot Cheaper than 6-7 Years ago, the tacks that hold the bait fell out after the 1st Try And The bait Tray is cheaper The Swing arm set tack Holder falls off TOO. Use Tootsie Rolls Little ones cut in half. In 1/2 cup water Micro wave for 20-30 seconds Maybe hot sit 4 minn cut in Half bait traps they harden up quick Works everytime I use Better U Shape tacks too.

The old design was great, this latch is unreliable and frankly shit

@DKNguyen3.1415

6 ай бұрын

I thought this was the old design and the new design were those with the plastic traps. What is the design you are talkinga bout?

these are the worst type of mouse traps it doesnt even set up

These traps are garbage unless you just wanna feed your mice peanut butter. I’ve had 4 traps cleaned out of peanut butter and not 1 kill

@pulseimages

4 жыл бұрын

Al Bundy Then use something else as bait, dummy!

@andrewross95

2 жыл бұрын

Little late but you probably set up the trap incorrectly. Same thing happened to me until I realized I set it up wrong .

@Nathan-lt6bw

Жыл бұрын

No they're not you can adjust the sensitivity and once i did boom.

@davidd6626

5 ай бұрын

​@@Nathan-lt6bwhow did you, I used to practical loss a finger nail setting them things a year ago. This time set the like normal and they won't go off. Maybe people complained they too sensitive. But I'd rather that then not working. Any help is appreciated

@davidd6626

5 ай бұрын

I played with the pedal and bent it straight up. Um way too sensitive ( almost snapped my finger) so I bent it slight back and we'll see IF that makes it work.

YEAH, doesn't work! They go off in your hand before you even have a chance to put them on the ground. ABSOLUTE TRASH.

@davidd6626

5 ай бұрын

At least yours go off ( unlike mine). Maybe try setting them in the spot you want them, that's how I do them at least. Hope that might work for you.