Victor M156 Metal Pedal Sustainably Sourced FSC Wood Snap Mouse Trap - 64 Traps

So I'm used to using the Tomcat snap traps which are a very similar competitor to these victor traps. At first I was a little disappointed because the Tomcat traps are somewhat adjustable and can be made to be very sensitive whereas these are not and require much more effort to trip. This would be disastrously bad for a mouse trap but they have one huge advantage. The trip plate on the Tomcat trap is just a flat board which as sensitive as they are I have seen mice take the bait without tripping the trap. These Victor traps have a trip plate with a curved end that forms almost a tube. This means if you stuffed that tube full of peanut butter the mice CANNOT get it all though they will stubbornly try once they get a taste for it. This means even though it requires more force to trip these traps mice are more likely to actually trip them in their efforts to dig or chew the peanut butter out of the trip plate's tube. I've had a very high rate of success with these traps and buying them in bulk is dirt cheap by comparison. I do wish the spring was stronger even though it is similar if not the same as similarly sized competitor's traps. I have had some instances where the trap was tripped but there was no mouse. I am concerned a mouse may have tripped the trap but was not actually killed by it and escaped which would be cruel. Of course, it could also be that the mouse just approached it from the opposite side and wasn't under the bar when it tripped. To be fair, I have never actually seen a live mouse caught and struggling inside one of these traps.

Excellent value

These traps catch mice, which is more than I can say for many items that are sold as mouse traps, especially the ones with yellow plastic imitation-cheese pedals.

We're fighting voles and poisons are more expensive and not working well. Within a couple weeks using only peanut butter over 20 voles were removed. The plastic grey traps with the red levers are safer and easier to cleaner but these fit in other area the plastic one do not.

Easy to load but sometimes hard to set without triggering. Don't reuse because they are very effective. Have electric model mbut it uses 4 AA batteries every 10 days.

Bought is when a problem developed at a rental. I works and was easy to set up.

I actually bought these to keep animal off my counters and furniture where they are not to be. Couldn't beat the price.

Tonight, I came to the basement to see a mouse trapped, disfigured yet still moving, 2 feet away from where I had placed the trap.Horrible.Don’t know how long it had been and didn’t know how to end the suffering of the poor creature.So far: these traps have been working so poorly (they are not sensitive enough) that I joke I am feeding my mice whenever I set them.Seven traps, some peanut butter. Peanut butter all gone the day after and traps untriggered most of the time. Once in a while I get a mouse, if I repeat every day assiduously.My traps were empty but I had left them in place.I cannot use again the traps knowing that mice die a slow death. And I think now of these other times when I found the trap at a distance from its original place.This little thing was hurting. Long and slow death.Hate it.