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Plain Old Victor Mouse Traps ?
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    Posted: 12 hours 49 minutes ago at 2:17am
Maybe I am missing something and obviously don't know what I am doing.

I have baited countless plain old ordinary Victor Mouse Traps; the kind with the Copper bait holder/trigger thingie.

I have successfully caught thousands of mice with these traps.


However, for the last several years, as delivered, where the cheese goes is a tightly rolled and clinched together toothed business that is useless for attaching any kind of bait that I know of.

I have to firmly hold the Copper thingie while I force the point of a 1/4-inch Wood Chisel in under the rolled crimped toothed thingie and raise/straighten it into a wider-mouthed "U" shape where I press in my cheese.

Once I overhaul them, they work fine = hair-triggered and deadly = so sensitive that my heart-beat will set them off while I am trying to place them.

Is there good reason for the traps to be made as they are ?

Am I the only human alive who doesn't know the trick and am resorting to re-working them so I can use them ?

For me, my way works, whereas the as-delivered is worthless.
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Congratulations buckskin! You're officially building a better mouse trap! My guess is is like everything else. Just junk. I like peanut butter on a mouse trap. If you just dob it on top they steal it. But if you cram it in the bait holder where they have to "dig" for it, it's bye bye Jerry.
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 Hey Buckskin,,,,When I DO need some,,I still buy those wooded traps ans Yes,,I do need to " Adjust " the bait part to open it up a tad. Mayhaps,,they know someting that we ain't figured out yet,,,??
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I have to open mine up a bit. And the peanut butter works good. In areas where other animals can’t get at it I put out some mouse candy, green blocks work on mice but I need the yellow blocks for rats. 
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The ones we have now have a little yellow plastic paddle with some small holes in it. You just put a dab of peanut butter on. I see on the internet the ones with the roll your suppose to put the cotton from the top of a cotton swab in it and the mice want that for their nest material.
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Haven’t paid attention to that, have been using peanut butter for decades.
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Originally posted by DanWi DanWi wrote:

I see on the internet the ones with the roll your suppose to put the cotton from the top of a cotton swab in it and the mice want that for their nest material.

Well, that sure is a new one on me; never in a million years would I have thought of using nest material as bait.

I had a bunch of those traps with the yellow plastic paddle and didn't like them as they were not sensitive enough and no way to make them more so that I could figure out.

The ones we had, you actually weren't supposed to need to bait them as that yellow paddle was impregnated with "cheese smell"; --- I always added real bait to them anyway; however, I did have one that I set without any added bait, just to see if there was anything to that "no need to bait" business; that thing stayed set in the shop for years without anything showing any interest in it; and, then, after being there unmolested for ages, it caught a mouse.

I used to swear by peanut butter as the best mouse bait one could use; but, the last few years around here, these mice seem to much prefer cheese.

I can have a trap set with peanut butter for weeks and not get thrown; I can set another right beside it baited with cheese and have one caught within hours.

I will say this, the peanut butter is a lot easier to use.
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