Victor Mouse Traps M035-12, Plastic Pedal, Sustainably Sourced FSC Wood, Wooden Mouse Traps, 12 Pack

I've used various mousetraps over many years, and these old-school traps have consistently been the most effective and least expensive. Some might be slightly easier to use, but if you bait and set this trap properly, it catches the most mice. Load peanut butter (or any nut butter) on and inside the metal bait holder and they do the job and do it well. Hard to beat at about a buck a trap.

You really can’t go wrong with the OG design of mouse traps. If you’re like me and suffer from a severe case of musophobia, you’ll appreciate the vicious effectiveness of a wooden snap trap. That raucous trap clap snap is oddly comforting because you instantly know what it means. This thing is the guillotine of mouse traps — swift, decisive, and blessedly final. Why bother with glue traps, where you’re forced to listen to a mouse squeak ad nauseam until it finally takes its last breath (which takes longer than you’d think)? No thank you. Snap traps are my preferred method every time.

A classic mouse trap that works every time. Tricky to set if you are inexperienced but you will get the hang of it. One thing, bait is important and I found peanut butter will draw them but they can lick it off. I have switched to hot gluing Walnut meats onto the plate and I have gotten rid of all my mice. Sometimes the classics work best and this is truly a classic.

This trap cost me 50 cents. One of the first things you need to try to do is to find out where the mice are coming into your house. My house is over 100 years old, so I'm still trying to find areas they can sneak in. I watched some YouTube videos to figure out the right way to use this trap and what to use for bait, a very small amount of peanut butter, just enough to fit on the end of a tooth pick to the bait peddle is recommended by VICTOR. They say if a mouse is able to take the bait without springing the trap, it is more a result of over baiting, which adversely effects the sensitivity of the trap. They recommend when setting the trap to hold the kill bar down, lift the peddle at 180ﾟ angle and place the rod under the little groove on the bait plate. They also recommend placing the snap-trap perpendicular to a wall or baseboard with the trigger pedal being closest to the wall. The Victor website gives detailed instructions and they offer a one year warranty from the date of purchase. It would probably cost more to mail them back than the price of the traps. You can contact them directly at 1-855- 5-VICTOR. You've got to be careful, I've smacked the kill bar against my knuckles a few times and it hurts. I practiced setting the trap without the peanut butter first until I knew what I was doing. When you read the one star reviews, VICTOR sometimes comments with this helpful information, which I've added to my review. This same model trap has been used for over a 115 years. My grandather used these same traps, and reused them over and over again. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You don't need anything expensive and fancy, this does the job. The mice die with in 30 seconds, which is much more humane than using glue traps. It took a little bit of practice to set it, you don't want to smack your fingers with the kill bar, so be careful. Once you know what you're doing, it's very simple to set. Since I personally don't want to deal with removing the dead mouse from the trap, this is cheap enough to throw in the trash with the mouse. But it is certainly reusable. I use a long grabber reacher tool to pick up the dead mouse and trap and drop it in the trash can. The metal pedal that you add the bait to stays very close to the wooden base, which makes it much easier for the mouse to set off. You don't want the mouse to get away with the bait, that hasn't happened with this trap. I set up a BLINK camera in my attic to try to figure out where the mice were coming from. They have been messing with mouse poop and pee in my attic for too many years, ruining many of my items. I am fed up with that, it's time to fight. Once I saw them running around in a particular area, I set the traps. They mark their areas with mouse poop and pee. Then I set my Blink camera about 7 feet away. What I've been seeing on my cam is very strange. I've had many dead mice in the traps that are cannibalized, eaten by other mice. I wish I didn't have to kill the mice, I see how the other mice react when they see a dead mouse, part of their family probably. Right now I have too many mice to deal with and the live traps wouldn't work. I'd be a mice taxi service driving 3 miles away from my house daily. Within 24 hours the mice ate most of the dead mice in the traps. They're not finding anymore food to eat in my house. They grabbed the dead mouse including the traps in their mouth and dragged them about 2 feet away under a chair, they're really strong. Certain mice they left alone. They ate almost everything there was nothing at all was left in the trap, except some fur and a tail. If I didn't have my blink camera, I certainly would have thought that the mice were eating the bait and the traps were not working. So if the mice have nothing to eat, they might eat the dead. With my blink camera, I feel like I'm watching a National Geographic special on mice. I know exactly what time of the day, usually nighttime when they're running around and their behavior which is interesting. My Blink takes video clips and has night vision. I move my blinks around the house. Of course you don't need a blink to catch mice, but it certainly makes it more helpful. And I know when I need to reset my traps without having to go up in the cold attic or down to my basement. It is a bit morbid, but you get used to it. And it helps me kill the mice, which is the most important. I think my grown sons and their wives are getting tired of mom sending them text video clips from my blink camera of strange mice behavior and dead mice. But this year being 2020 is a very strange time in all our lives. Now I can start cleaning up my attic without having to deal with more mouse poop and pee, which is disgusting. Mice contaminate food, spread diseases and viruses... The CDC (CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL) lists: HANTAVIRUS, PLAGUE, SALMONELLOSIS, LEPTOSPIROSIS...add they chew on wood and wiring in the walls.

This Victor M150 wooden mouse trap is effective and does what it’s designed to do. The metal pedal is sensitive and triggers quickly, and the solid wood base feels durable and well constructed. As shown in the photo, it successfully caught the mouse when placed along the wall where mice typically run. It’s easy to set, requires no poison or chemicals, and works well for indoor home pest control. The only reason for four stars instead of five is that placement and bait choice matter for best results, but overall it’s a dependable, traditional mouse trap that offers good value in a multi-pack.

I was using the older style Victor traps, without the yellow trigger, and would constantly find the peanut butter was licked clean and the trap unsprung. These are a huge improvement over the old traps. I have been using these about a month and have not found a single trap licked clean of the bait without killing the mouse. The plastic trigger is far more sensitive and doesn't let the mouse near the peanut butter with out doing it's job. They are very effective and a bargain for the 12 pack.

I bought a house. Lots of droppings. I set 10 of these using PB as bait. All 10 were robbed and no mice. None were triggered. So either these suck or it was robbed my baby mice.... I bought a bunch of sticky traps. I am hopeful they will catch them.

I'm back to buy my second box, These simple mouse traps work perfectly every time! All you have to do is bait it right and place it where mice travel. Last year I had some grain stored in my garage, and did not realize it was drawing mice until my garage was overrun. I have used other traps in the past, but my husband always used this kind, and he always caught any mice that showed up. in our house, so I bought this box of 20 traps because I do not reuse them, just toss them in the garbage with the mouse still in the trap. I just kept trapping them until they were all gone. But this winter, though I have not had mice in my house in years, I saw one run between the wall and my fridge. I still had 4 traps left from last year so I started setting traps down in that small space between my fridge and the wall. There is one mistake that some people make, and then complain that the traps don't work. That is to use only peanut butter as bait, or too small a piece of cheese. Peanut butter is too soft, so if a mouse is careful he can lick it off without setting the trap off. My husband always used a good chunk of cheese that took up the whole metal tongue except where the latch goes, and he pressed the cheese hard onto the tongue, so it was not easy for the mouse to get it off the tongue. This year I did not have solid cheese, so I used grated cheese, squished it together tightly using a small dab of peanut butter to bond the cheese shreds together, then pressed it onto the tongue and mounded it up as much as would go on the tongue without interfering with the latch. The only time it failed to catch a mouse, is when I put a little too much peanut butter, and the mouse was able to steal it without setting off the trap. I re-set the same trap and it caught a mouse, so I know the trap was not faulty, just my bait. Between last year and this winter, I have used 18 traps and caught a mouse with every one. But I probably have more, so i am back to order more traps. Let me just conclude here, that there is no need to buy more expensive traps These may be a little more sensitive to set (I couldn't remember how, so I looked it up on you tube), but if you bait them right, and place them well, there could not be a more effective trap. The bait is most important, but if you use an adequate amount of firm cheese, press it onto the tongue well, then add a touch of peanut butter on the cheese, then set the trap, when these traps stop catching mice, its because your mice are all gone, or you need to find another place to set the traps.