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I tried sticky traps first...caught the mice within an hour but, the mice wriggled off and was scratching the entire time before it was free. So then I tried the Decon bait traps. They've been sitting out for weeks and no mice caught. So what do you do when the mice are too smart for other traps? You use these Victor traps that are tried and true for decades. I don't feel one but guilty, because I tried other traps and they didn't work. Thanks for the great instruction video. It helped a lot!👍
Just to tell you, it won't kill your thumb and forefinger but it hurts a lot. Thanks for this video, when I stop crying I will try again. I should have come and seen here before lol!
Thank you! I love that you did this video in only three minutes. Other videos were like 10 minutes long, ain't nobody got time for that. Your video is very helpful thank you.
I caught more than 30 mice with this same trap. At first when I bought the trap I thought it wont work because it looked too small in size. But after I used it, I can say it's the best trap I ever tried.
Thank you so very much. Like many others, I didn't have someone to show me this growing up. You definitely helped me and my home out! Finally a homeowner...and I knew mice would come someday
Thank you for this video! I had to go full screen to actually see exactly where the bar hooked on, (I thought it had to go in the hole?!) but thanks to you, I saw just how easy it really was!! Thanks again.
You don’t need to spend a penny more on any other type of trap. These work very well. Came home from a month out of town to find a mouse had made its home in my absence. $2.75 and 3 hours later it was evicted without notice.
Thank you so much! The key is the tension like you said. The instructions were not clear enough. You explained it very well for someone who has never set a trap!
Great video. I would add that I've had many new Victor traps that get picked clean by the mice without tripping. On those traps, it seems that the copper trigger is bent too far over, requiring more than a mouse to release it. So, I always test the trip setup beforehand by setting up the trap without "springing" the trap. I use finger pressure to pull up on the latch rod, simulating the force of the spring-loaded piece. Then I push down on the bait trigger to see how much pressure it takes. If too much, then I use a pair of pliers to make the trigger more upright and more sensitive. About half of them need adjustment.
thanks, yes, I've had pretty good luck with this brand in the past. I just took two out of the package and they're way too stable. Was going to adjust mine to make it more sensitive. I just saw one of the comments saying he pushed a thumbtack into the back of the trap to make it less stable. Trying that for the moment.
I add an old school round head thumb tack to the middle back side or the trap. It makes it unstable . so when the mouse come to touch and feed , trips much easier.
Thank you. I needed your very helpful video to set the traps. I didn’t have any idea what to do after I read the directions. I don’t ever remember setting a trap, late husband or my cats always took care of the mice. So thank you from this very senior age lady.
Ok, I bought some traps awhile back and I felt like a fool. Couldn't figure it out. One of those things I thought guys would always take care for me. Well lo and behold here I am thinking how hard can it be? Well as it turned out I gave up and figured I would throw them in the Trash. I didn't and today scrolling through your videos just discovered your video showing us women how it is supposed to be done. Thank you ever so much. Maybe I should give you a whole list of repairs and fixes needed around my home and you can make a short video showing some of us single woman how to do some repairs. No significant handyman around or to call on for help. PS my engineer father lives about a 1000 miles away. Not like I can call him for help and besides at his age he just is not capable of doing it anymore. Love him to death. If anyone could have fixed it the 'RIGHT WAY', dad did. Maybe there are channels in which they start at the very basics, of tool identification and basic use. I have a power drill and could probably figure it out if I put my mind to it. Just would be nice to know I can go somewhere to get the basic and correct information. I have tile/shower replacement mold, tub scratches, holes in the wall. Entrance door frame, simple lock/deadbolt replacement. When chit is not square and how to check for all those things before diving in a project and then ending up with a bigger problem. A whole host of small repairs, fixes etc. Guess I will pull out that power drill to day and try to figure out what I need. If anyone can recommended a channel sure would appreciate it. BTW Mr. Fixer I have enjoyed the videos, I have seen. Made me think about what I really don't know before starting any project of my own.
Very helpful - thanks. Instructions on the package are useless. On the plus side, these are the good old-school mouse traps and they work. Many manufacturers have tried to “build a better mousetrap“ and they earn a lot of money on complex products and toxic poisons that are bad for our ground water etc. But this is your grandma’s mouse trap from generations ago and it works.
I just set mine up. My min pin is my pest control guy and seems clueless that there is a mouse in my house. I hope this trap works. I am so glad that the instructions in this video were easy to follow.
A few tips… wear rubber gloves or something similar so that you don’t get your scent on them. Also you can add the bait before setting the trap. I use peanut butter.
I like these with all metal parts rather than newer Victors that have a yellow plastic part to hold the bait...😊😊😊 been using them for more than 50 years!!
Had to for the 3rd time in my life buy these same traps AGAIN. (3rd location) always need a refresher on how to set them up, just for my own comfort. My my 2nd time back in 2020 in my apartment was 11 in 48 hours. Hopefully I don’t catch a family again in my house that I am living in! Started seeing dead mice near my dogs bowls outside, even caught him tossing up a dead one the other day. Last night? I heard one in the house. Today as I laid one of 4 traps, I seen one scurry back behind my furnace. Figured I leave it off just incase he went exploring. Don’t want to have to pay for a full system clean out running into winter! Great video, thanks!
Wow I struggled with these traps for years and watched other videos. Your video gave me the missing step....to hold the bar and relieve some of the tension slightly! Thanks so much
I agree that the sticky traps are inhumane…so much so when I once used one in a closet for bugs in a new house, I ended up painstakingly freeing (and cleaning by hand!) a baby mouse who got stuck. By then, I caged him, fed him til well then let him go. 🙄
The easiest way to set one of those snap traps is to use a pair of pliers to hold the kill bar down so that your fingers are no where near it in case it accidentally activates while you're trying to set it.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. OUT OF THE 40 PLUS YEARS I'VE BEEN HERE I'VE NEVER HAD TO SET ONE OF THESE THINGS. I JUST FED A MOUSE A BIT AGO AND OUT OF FRUSTRATION DECIDED TO LOOK TO UA-cam. YOUR VIDEO WAS TRULY A LIFE SAVER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOT YELLING. ❤ I CAN SEE BETTER WITH ALL CAPS ❤ THANK YOU THANK YOU FROM ALL OF US WHO NEEDED THIS WHEW XOXOXO
Hey man, i've been watchin TONS of these and still feeling confused why it wouldn't lock in place, this one seemed to help me figure it out haha thanks!
They are super sensitive. That little piece of metal sticking out to hold the wire is tiny. Just takes a very steady hand and patience. Thanks for checking out the video!
Well I'm one of those people that are afraid of the mouse trap, and the mouses! But for some reason they've come into the house and love it in here Of course my cat died a month ago so he used to be the one to catch him now we don't have that but thank you for your instructions very good I will attempt to do that again in a few minutes. Appreciate your help here!
Kept whipping my hands and thinking it was too sensitive or something, but was doing it the same way you were, put it down and did it and left it like you said and it worked Thank you very much
Wow! I’m 67 yo, and I remember these from my childhood. Did you know they made a larger one for rats, they didn’t work too well in the south Bronx back then, the rat would drag it as they escaped injured, not dead…
Nice video, very helpful. I think the key to success is to bait first, then lay trap on flat surface to “set” with fingers at the rear, like you showed. Success! Thank you.
Thank you so much! I just knew something was weird because I saw rodent signs in the alley and all winter and spring I had not seen a single mouse. I thought, "Wow, the foxes and racoons are really doing their job!" However, today I was on the back porch and heard a bag rattling and there was small dark grey one. The help you provided was terrific and probably saved my fingers!
Tip hold the back piece down at all times and slowly let it go and if it doesn’t move further then a quarter inch it’s armed , after find the spot and be extremely easy when putting it down it trips easily
thank you because I watched like five other videos and was so frustrated I was crying I didn’t know you had to let the bar up a little to make the tension
Giving these a go. I hear these critters in my ceiling at night and I can’t sleep. My cat hasn’t caught one in awhile, so I need to try something else. Hopefully these Victor traps work. Thanks for the video
Thank you so much, I do get jumpy thinking it will snap on me, I like the idea when you said to have it placed where you want it set up on the floor 1st 😁
Once set up you can move it if you always remember to hold it by the big red V end, then you'll be OK. I use them in the garden for voles, using oatmeal mixed in peanut butter for bate. I use no-kill traps for house mice, but voles have higher likelihood of carrying plague.
Thank goodness for your video, literally no videos on tik tok describing how to set it up. You are a legand I will update this if I catch the mouse deserved a like and subscriber
The only thing I would add is you should bait the trap prior to setting the spring. I just take a bit of craft American cheese and smush it on there, and then set the spring. Will see you tonight, I know they’re coming out and I’m gonna get them!
When I place the trap in the exact spot I want it, I hold down the snap bar all the way back using the very edge of a shoe heel while carefully setting the trigger with my hand. Once that is done I *slowly* let the shoe heel off the snap bar. Works perfectly and safely for me every time.
Use peanut butter for bate, then put the mouse trap in an empty, UNWASHED, peanut butter jar. Place trap againsta wall, not in the middle of the floor. Don’t leave dead mice in the trap or where other mice will eat them. Use several, 3-6, traps at once to get all the mice at once.
I tried to get rid of them humanely by smells, high pitched sounds, cleaning, removing food sources.... They won't go. I feel awful cause they are sort of cute, but I have to try this. Thanks for the video
Awww thank you ! The instructions are very vague and your video is very helpful. This is the first time that there is a mouse in my house. I bought 6 traps. 🤞🤞🤞 (sorry my english is bad)
To look at the trap, it didn’t seem like it would be difficult to set up. For a reasonably intelligent person, I felt like a moron because I could NOT for the LIFE of me figure out how to set that stupid arm!. I knew SOMEBODY would have posted instructions! Thanks for the video!
I set mine up wrong, I thought I got it right but when I saw this video I realized the mistake I made, went to set up the traps again and found the mouse had already taken the bait. Would’ve caught the sucker if it was set up right 😩
Haha, Yeah I thought it was supposed to be in the round hole so I bent it up to reach. Probably would have been way too hard to trigger, but found this video 2 minutes later and redid. Now to wait and see... I tried the humane trap (catch and release), but the stupid mouse only looked at it. It was far more interested in the cameras I put up over the drop down ceiling where he is roaming around.
Unfortunately, I’m as stubborn as my dad and decided to try to set it up on my own before watching your video and ended up with the trap snapping on my thumb. Lol But thanks anyway for the helpful video.
The newer version with the yellow plastic pads are a bit easier: the latch can be set to the left of the backside of the yellow plastic...that is easiest to set, but makes the trap less sensitive. Setting the latch to the extreme right side of the back of it, makes the trap more sensitive. Regardless, each time I fail to set these older traps and they explode in my face, I have a heart attack...sometimes accompanied by bruised fingertips. Thanks for the video. All this time, I've been putting the bait in the wrong place! I didn't realize it goes at the front of the metal whatchamacallit.
Nice, I must have set them to high because the peanut butter is gone and the traps are not sprung. My daughter convinced me to get a live trap. They have a hair trigger and closes the end sealing the mouse inside. Issue is everything sets it off, well in short I just cleaned out a very dead mouse of it. I grow up with the spring type and will keep using them. Thank you for the video.
Also, put the bait on it before setting it. Peanut butter works really well. Not a big dollop. Just a small amount so he has to work for his last supper...
Thank you. This helped alot. When it gets cold every year mice come in garage. 19yrs...in house first time I saw one in house. Found where it came in. Under sink on outside wall. Made a hole in plasterboard. I've cleaned. Caulked ever nook, cranny, and the hole. I dont even care. I caulked everywhere. I setting traps. Obviously one got in. Should I call someone or could I possibly rid them myself. I bought balsam fir scent pouches for garage as well. I'm freaked out now that you said how destructive they are. If I dont see any signs after a bit of keeping up on traps fo you think I could be out of the woods? Never delt with this before. Thank you
Hey Michelle. I think you can probably get rid of them yourself. I did! Just keep putting the traps out and keep looking for entry points. I caught 19 before I finally sealed it all up! That is the tricky part. The main entry was very hard to see above an old basement window and they can squeeze into such a tiny hole. Hope this info helps! Thanks for watching!
Thanks again. I caught 2 under kitchen sink. They're food source I discovered was grass seed in my garage. I recieved your message after making arrangements for a pest control company who'll be coming by tomorrow. I'm thinking I may have caught this in time. It's so disturbing. 😠 By the way I managed to get traps set just as you demonstrated. Can you believe they licked off the tiny bit of peanut butter without setting trap off! 😡They're smart.
I found that after you set the trap if you very carefully angle the trip piece where the bait goes to the right it will be even more sensitive. I had a mouse take all the bait without the trap tripping before I did this.
Thank you for the great tutorial,I have the biggest,boldest mouse that keeps escaping my traps..so I thought maybe I'm doing something wrong..I put out 2 traps so let's see how smart he is tonight.
That bar that traps the mouse is known as a kill bar. When the trap is sprung, the time the kill bar is activated to the time that bar hits the mouse can be as fast as - maybe 80-90 mph.
I have a mouse/mice that come into mine and my mum and sister's rooms, we ordered some traps so I hope these work, I can't sleep because I will hear them gnawing on things and I am afraid of them destroying my stuff or dying somewhere out of reach and rotting away
Perfect! I get it now. I hope the traps work. I have a mouse in my gas stove. I am beside myself. I have seen it a few times as it spots me and scurries into to crevices of the stove. So gross.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS AND YES , THIS SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME. BUT I REALLY DON'T WANT MOUSE DROPPINGS IN ALL MY FOOD. PLATES, DISHES, BOWLS, TABLES.
A quick note!
Bait(peanut butter/ whatever your choice is): Remember to put on BEFORE you set the trap.
Purchase mouse traps here - amzn.to/2YfJQWh
*As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn commission on qualifying purchases.
Subscribe to my channel and thanks for watching! 😃 bit.ly/SubscribeToTheFixer
Thank you! I still have all 10 fingers and no injuries lmaoo
Good to go first try!
Thanks for the info, brother. I had no idea where to attach the setting bar.
Thank you good Sir
I caught that at the beginning but wasn’t going to mention it. 😂
I tried sticky traps first...caught the mice within an hour but, the mice wriggled off and was scratching the entire time before it was free. So then I tried the Decon bait traps. They've been sitting out for weeks and no mice caught. So what do you do when the mice are too smart for other traps? You use these Victor traps that are tried and true for decades. I don't feel one but guilty, because I tried other traps and they didn't work.
Thanks for the great instruction video. It helped a lot!👍
I found the printed instructions vague and said- "Man there has to be somebody who made a how to on UA-cam!"
Thanks for being
"That Guy."
me too
Same
The instructions literally just says “take the bar out and set it up” like ok bro
Just to tell you, it won't kill your thumb and forefinger but it hurts a lot. Thanks for this video, when I stop crying I will try again. I should have come and seen here before lol!
😁😂 Good to know haha thanks for the comment. I hope the video helps you out!
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I am still in pain 3 days later. I think it broke my fingers! 🤯
@@Larrypem 😮😢
@@genevievechausseart I seriously have PTSD 😂😂😂
I gottta say, you really can find a "How To" video on ANYTHING!! And I'm grateful ....didn't have a clue! (neither did 512k) Many thanks
Thank you! I love that you did this video in only three minutes. Other videos were like 10 minutes long, ain't nobody got time for that. Your video is very helpful thank you.
I caught more than 30 mice with this same trap. At first when I bought the trap I thought it wont work because it looked too small in size. But after I used it, I can say it's the best trap I ever tried.
Thank you so very much. Like many others, I didn't have someone to show me this growing up. You definitely helped me and my home out! Finally a homeowner...and I knew mice would come someday
My dad showed me how to do this like twenty years ago but I don't remember lol you're not alone
Thank you for this video! I had to go full screen to actually see exactly where the bar hooked on, (I thought it had to go in the hole?!) but thanks to you, I saw just how easy it really was!! Thanks again.
Me too! Lol
Remember to always keep your fingers on the open side of the trap!
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You don’t need to spend a penny more on any other type of trap. These work very well. Came home from a month out of town to find a mouse had made its home in my absence. $2.75 and 3 hours later it was evicted without notice.
LOL!
Thanks man! Couldn’t figure out where to put that arm bar. Time to kill some mice
When I finished I put a head band to trigger it. It scared the crap out of me. Lol
Yes
Thank you so much! The key is the tension like you said. The instructions were not clear enough. You explained it very well for someone who has never set a trap!
Perfect video and no annoying music. Good job.
Great video. I would add that I've had many new Victor traps that get picked clean by the mice without tripping. On those traps, it seems that the copper trigger is bent too far over, requiring more than a mouse to release it.
So, I always test the trip setup beforehand by setting up the trap without "springing" the trap. I use finger pressure to pull up on the latch rod, simulating the force of the spring-loaded piece. Then I push down on the bait trigger to see how much pressure it takes. If too much, then I use a pair of pliers to make the trigger more upright and more sensitive. About half of them need adjustment.
thanks, yes, I've had pretty good luck with this brand in the past. I just took two out of the package and they're way too stable. Was going to adjust mine to make it more sensitive. I just saw one of the comments saying he pushed a thumbtack into the back of the trap to make it less stable. Trying that for the moment.
I add an old school round head thumb tack to the middle back side or the trap. It makes it unstable . so when the mouse come to touch and feed , trips much easier.
thanks. Yeah, mine has been nothing but a mouse feeder. They eat all of the almond butter and never trip the trap.
Thank you. I needed your very helpful video to set the traps. I didn’t have any idea what to do after I read the directions. I don’t ever remember setting a trap, late husband or my cats always took care of the mice. So thank you from this very senior age lady.
Ok, I bought some traps awhile back and I felt like a fool. Couldn't figure it out. One of those things I thought guys would always take care for me. Well lo and behold here I am thinking how hard can it be? Well as it turned out I gave up and figured I would throw them in the Trash. I didn't and today scrolling through your videos just discovered your video showing us women how it is supposed to be done. Thank you ever so much. Maybe I should give you a whole list of repairs and fixes needed around my home and you can make a short video showing some of us single woman how to do some repairs. No significant handyman around or to call on for help. PS my engineer father lives about a 1000 miles away. Not like I can call him for help and besides at his age he just is not capable of doing it anymore. Love him to death. If anyone could have fixed it the 'RIGHT WAY', dad did. Maybe there are channels in which they start at the very basics, of tool identification and basic use. I have a power drill and could probably figure it out if I put my mind to it. Just would be nice to know I can go somewhere to get the basic and correct information. I have tile/shower replacement mold, tub scratches, holes in the wall. Entrance door frame, simple lock/deadbolt replacement. When chit is not square and how to check for all those things before diving in a project and then ending up with a bigger problem. A whole host of small repairs, fixes etc. Guess I will pull out that power drill to day and try to figure out what I need. If anyone can recommended a channel sure would appreciate it.
BTW Mr. Fixer I have enjoyed the videos, I have seen. Made me think about what I really don't know before starting any project of my own.
I had no idea how to do this... so glad I checked my Google and thank you!!!!
Thank-you - no other video explained to release a little tension off the spring to get the bar to 'catch'. So easy once you know how!
Very helpful - thanks. Instructions on the package are useless. On the plus side, these are the good old-school mouse traps and they work. Many manufacturers have tried to “build a better mousetrap“ and they earn a lot of money on complex products and toxic poisons that are bad for our ground water etc. But this is your grandma’s mouse trap from generations ago and it works.
I just set mine up. My min pin is my pest control guy and seems clueless that there is a mouse in my house. I hope this trap works. I am so glad that the instructions in this video were easy to follow.
A few tips… wear rubber gloves or something similar so that you don’t get your scent on them. Also you can add the bait before setting the trap. I use peanut butter.
lol too late
Thanks man. This helped a lot. I haven't used a mouse trap for a least 40 years. I needed a refresher. Quite simple and great instructions.
Glad it was helpful! 😃
I like these with all metal parts rather than newer Victors that have a yellow plastic part to hold the bait...😊😊😊 been using them for more than 50 years!!
Had to for the 3rd time in my life buy these same traps AGAIN. (3rd location) always need a refresher on how to set them up, just for my own comfort. My my 2nd time back in 2020 in my apartment was 11 in 48 hours. Hopefully I don’t catch a family again in my house that I am living in! Started seeing dead mice near my dogs bowls outside, even caught him tossing up a dead one the other day. Last night? I heard one in the house. Today as I laid one of 4 traps, I seen one scurry back behind my furnace. Figured I leave it off just incase he went exploring. Don’t want to have to pay for a full system clean out running into winter! Great video, thanks!
Wow I struggled with these traps for years and watched other videos. Your video gave me the missing step....to hold the bar and relieve some of the tension slightly! Thanks so much
Thank you..I'm trying some tonight..got a smart mouse who avoids my sticky traps.
🤞🏼🍀
Yeah the one I got ate on the sticky n still got away
Wow
Sticky traps are actually inhumane. They get stuck and chew their fucking legs off trying to escape
I agree that the sticky traps are inhumane…so much so when I once used one in a closet for bugs in a new house, I ended up painstakingly freeing (and cleaning by hand!) a baby mouse who got stuck. By then, I caged him, fed him til well then let him go. 🙄
The easiest way to set one of those snap traps is to use a pair of pliers to hold the kill bar down so that your fingers are no where near it in case it accidentally activates while you're trying to set it.
Great tip! Thanks for checking out the video!
Thank you! Literally had no idea how to set this until I watched your video!
Thanks! This is my first time living without a cat, so I've never had to do these before 😅
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OH THANK you, thank you ....I set 2 traps and didn't snap my fingers even once.!! :) my fingers love you.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. OUT OF THE 40 PLUS YEARS I'VE BEEN HERE I'VE NEVER HAD TO SET ONE OF THESE THINGS. I JUST FED A MOUSE A BIT AGO AND OUT OF FRUSTRATION DECIDED TO LOOK TO UA-cam. YOUR VIDEO WAS TRULY A LIFE SAVER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOT YELLING. ❤ I CAN SEE BETTER WITH ALL CAPS ❤ THANK YOU THANK YOU FROM ALL OF US WHO NEEDED THIS WHEW XOXOXO
Hey man, i've been watchin TONS of these and still feeling confused why it wouldn't lock in place, this one seemed to help me figure it out haha thanks!
They are super sensitive. That little piece of metal sticking out to hold the wire is tiny. Just takes a very steady hand and patience. Thanks for checking out the video!
Well I'm one of those people that are afraid of the mouse trap, and the mouses! But for some reason they've come into the house and love it in here Of course my cat died a month ago so he used to be the one to catch him now we don't have that but thank you for your instructions very good I will attempt to do that again in a few minutes. Appreciate your help here!
Six years later this is still helpful stuff, thank you.
Kept whipping my hands and thinking it was too sensitive or something, but was doing it the same way you were, put it down and did it and left it like you said and it worked
Thank you very much
The plastic version is so much version, that hook was such a pain! Great video.
Wow! I’m 67 yo, and I remember these from my childhood. Did you know they made a larger one for rats, they didn’t work too well in the south Bronx back then, the rat would drag it as they escaped injured, not dead…
Thank you so much. There are so many videos on youtube explaining how to set a mouse trap but they dont zoom close enough to show what they are doing!
Thank you for the feedback, Brenda! I really appreciate it and I hope the video helps!
THE SOUND OF THE SPRING HITTING THE WOOD IS SCARY.
Thank you I am confident enough to setup the trap now.
Nice video, very helpful. I think the key to success is to bait first, then lay trap on flat surface to “set” with fingers at the rear, like you showed. Success! Thank you.
Thank you so much! I just knew something was weird because I saw rodent signs in the alley and all winter and spring I had not seen a single mouse. I thought, "Wow, the foxes and racoons are really doing their job!" However, today I was on the back porch and heard a bag rattling and there was small dark grey one. The help you provided was terrific and probably saved my fingers!
I am so glad I found a video on this, we've been having a lot of mice problems at my house, and no one here could figure it out!
Ty sir you helped out a new homeowner who only does office work do a an adult thing I appreciate it
Tip hold the back piece down at all times and slowly let it go and if it doesn’t move further then a quarter inch it’s armed , after find the spot and be extremely easy when putting it down it trips easily
Where does one place the bait on metal piece?
Thanks for the instructions. I was sticking the arm bar THROUGH the hole. No wonder I wasn't catching any mice!
By far the most helpful overview of how to connect the bar to the bait area. Thank you!
thank you because I watched like five other videos and was so frustrated I was crying I didn’t know you had to let the bar up a little to make the tension
Glad the video could help and thanks for watching! 😄
Giving these a go. I hear these critters in my ceiling at night and I can’t sleep. My cat hasn’t caught one in awhile, so I need to try something else. Hopefully these Victor traps work. Thanks for the video
Easy does it
Couldn't read the tiny directions. This was an enormous help. Hate to use them but mice won't quit at night. Thank you.
Perfect instructions..! I got just that kind of trap and I wanted to know exactly where bar goes 👌🏻
Thank you so much, I do get jumpy thinking it will snap on me, I like the idea when you said to have it placed where you want it set up on the floor 1st 😁
Once set up you can move it if you always remember to hold it by the big red V end, then you'll be OK.
I use them in the garden for voles, using oatmeal mixed in peanut butter for bate. I use no-kill traps for house mice, but voles have higher likelihood of carrying plague.
Thank goodness for your video, literally no videos on tik tok describing how to set it up. You are a legand I will update this if I catch the mouse deserved a like and subscriber
The only thing I would add is you should bait the trap prior to setting the spring. I just take a bit of craft American cheese and smush it on there, and then set the spring. Will see you tonight, I know they’re coming out and I’m gonna get them!
Thanks, great video! I set a mousetrap up years ago, but very frankly forgot. They are a bit Jenkee in setting up, but your video helped a lot!
When I place the trap in the exact spot I want it, I hold down the snap bar all the way back using the very edge of a shoe heel while carefully setting the trigger with my hand. Once that is done I *slowly* let the shoe heel off the snap bar. Works perfectly and safely for me every time.
Glad it worked for you 😀
Thanks for this video. This style, was a little diffrent. Glad you could help 😇🙏
Use peanut butter for bate, then put the mouse trap in an empty, UNWASHED, peanut butter jar. Place trap againsta wall, not in the middle of the floor. Don’t leave dead mice in the trap or where other mice will eat them. Use several, 3-6, traps at once to get all the mice at once.
Thanks for the jar tip! I have a mouse that's been stealing bait from the traps, so this will help a lot!
I tried to get rid of them humanely by smells, high pitched sounds, cleaning, removing food sources.... They won't go. I feel awful cause they are sort of cute, but I have to try this. Thanks for the video
Thank you! I watched 3 other videos before I found yours! I could not figure out how to place the “arm”! Gr8 explanation & demonstration!🎉
Awww thank you ! The instructions are very vague and your video is very helpful. This is the first time that there is a mouse in my house. I bought 6 traps. 🤞🤞🤞 (sorry my english is bad)
Thanks for watching! Good luck! Hope the video helped!
To look at the trap, it didn’t seem like it would be difficult to set up. For a reasonably intelligent person, I felt like a moron because I could NOT for the LIFE of me figure out how to set that stupid arm!. I knew SOMEBODY would have posted instructions! Thanks for the video!
I set mine up wrong, I thought I got it right but when I saw this video I realized the mistake I made, went to set up the traps again and found the mouse had already taken the bait. Would’ve caught the sucker if it was set up right 😩
Haha, Yeah I thought it was supposed to be in the round hole so I bent it up to reach. Probably would have been way too hard to trigger, but found this video 2 minutes later and redid. Now to wait and see... I tried the humane trap (catch and release), but the stupid mouse only looked at it. It was far more interested in the cameras I put up over the drop down ceiling where he is roaming around.
This video made me 0% less scared. Thank you.
Thank you! Never done this in my life and have to do it now while at this little rustic cabin on the make. Dumb rodents!!!!
Thanks for the video. I play guitar and golf and need my fingers. I almost lost couple before I watched your video!
😂 Glad you were able to get it done!
It isn't rocket science, foljks. It's just a mousetrap. Outsmart it, if you are able.
Unfortunately, I’m as stubborn as my dad and decided to try to set it up on my own before watching your video and ended up with the trap snapping on my thumb. Lol But thanks anyway for the helpful video.
Be careful! 😮😁. Thanks for checking out the video!
The newer version with the yellow plastic pads are a bit easier: the latch can be set to the left of the backside of the yellow plastic...that is easiest to set, but makes the trap less sensitive. Setting the latch to the extreme right side of the back of it, makes the trap more sensitive.
Regardless, each time I fail to set these older traps and they explode in my face, I have a heart attack...sometimes accompanied by bruised fingertips. Thanks for the video. All this time, I've been putting the bait in the wrong place! I didn't realize it goes at the front of the metal whatchamacallit.
Just set it up, thank you for the tutorial and for being so considerate of the mice with peanut allergy 😂🥰
Yes no mouse die of peanut allergy in this video
Nice, I must have set them to high because the peanut butter is gone and the traps are not sprung. My daughter convinced me to get a live trap. They have a hair trigger and closes the end sealing the mouse inside. Issue is everything sets it off, well in short I just cleaned out a very dead mouse of it. I grow up with the spring type and will keep using them. Thank you for the video.
Before watching your video I snapped my finger. Oh well. Thanks for the video! It was helpful.
Wow, having the toughest time hooking it. Thanks for the help. took time, but it hooked
Also, put the bait on it before setting it. Peanut butter works really well. Not a big dollop. Just a small amount so he has to work for his last supper...
Thanks. I have always been nervous about this. Appreciate the calm delivery.
Thank you. This helped alot. When it gets cold every year mice come in garage. 19yrs...in house first time I saw one in house. Found where it came in. Under sink on outside wall. Made a hole in plasterboard. I've cleaned. Caulked ever nook, cranny, and the hole. I dont even care. I caulked everywhere. I setting traps. Obviously one got in. Should I call someone or could I possibly rid them myself. I bought balsam fir scent pouches for garage as well. I'm freaked out now that you said how destructive they are. If I dont see any signs after a bit of keeping up on traps fo you think I could be out of the woods? Never delt with this before. Thank you
Hey Michelle. I think you can probably get rid of them yourself. I did! Just keep putting the traps out and keep looking for entry points. I caught 19 before I finally sealed it all up! That is the tricky part. The main entry was very hard to see above an old basement window and they can squeeze into such a tiny hole. Hope this info helps! Thanks for watching!
Thanks again. I caught 2 under kitchen sink. They're food source I discovered was grass seed in my garage. I recieved your message after making arrangements for a pest control company who'll be coming by tomorrow. I'm thinking I may have caught this in time. It's so disturbing. 😠 By the way I managed to get traps set just as you demonstrated. Can you believe they licked off the tiny bit of peanut butter without setting trap off! 😡They're smart.
Thanks, Every time I don't know how to figure things out I try you tube, thanks a lot!!
Thank you! The instructions on the package were very vague. This helped alot!
Very happy to help! Thanks for watching!
These traps work the best don’t buy the new plastic ones old school always wins!!!!
I found that after you set the trap if you very carefully angle the trip piece where the bait goes to the right it will be even more sensitive. I had a mouse take all the bait without the trap tripping before I did this.
This video definitely helped, almost snapped my fingers off twice 😂
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Thank you for your informative video on how to set a Victor mouse trap. The instructions on the packet are hard to follow.
So helpful! The Ace video was so far from the trap that I couldn’t figure it out
😁 Thanks for watching! I hope it helped!!
Thanks for making the set up so easy! 4 set up and ready to get them!!
This was a great, simple, to-the-point video. Very helpful. Thanks!
Thank you for the great tutorial,I have the biggest,boldest mouse that keeps escaping my traps..so I thought maybe I'm doing something wrong..I put out 2 traps so let's see how smart he is tonight.
30 second video lasts 3 minutes.mouse dies of old age.
That bar that traps the mouse is known as a kill bar. When the trap is sprung, the time the kill bar is activated to the time that bar hits the mouse can be as fast as - maybe 80-90 mph.
Thank you so much for your help . Setting a mousetrap should be a snap..pun intended.
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Thanks so much. I bought it and I saw your great video it very simple and help a lot. 👍
Thanks for this video! I had no idea how to set one and have 4 set now! And didn’t snap myself! Lol thankful for this video!
Thank you!! They really should have a better picture on the package.
Thanks, this video helped me finally get over my fear of setting mouse traps!
Awesome to hear. Happy to help!
I have a mouse/mice that come into mine and my mum and sister's rooms, we ordered some traps so I hope these work, I can't sleep because I will hear them gnawing on things and I am afraid of them destroying my stuff or dying somewhere out of reach and rotting away
do the traps with the metal flap work better than the ones with the plastic flaps?
Perfect! I get it now. I hope the traps work. I have a mouse in my gas stove. I am beside myself. I have seen it a few times as it spots me and scurries into to crevices of the stove. So gross.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS AND YES , THIS SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME. BUT I REALLY DON'T WANT MOUSE DROPPINGS IN ALL MY FOOD. PLATES, DISHES, BOWLS, TABLES.
Came here after the grandson brought home these traps instead of the nice plastic squeeze to set traps. Kids! Thank you!