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12-04-2018, 10:33 PM
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Don't have a garage or the shop to speak from the experience, but from few videos on YouTube sounds like a "rolling log" or "walk the plank" type of response are really effective... And peanut butter for the bait... Smear along the ramp and all over the rotating log, or at the end of the "plank"...
Also, seen one video... Just a bowl of peanut oil (liquid)... The guy got 8 mice a night... Problem is, you have to deal with the bowl full of oily mice in the morning...
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12-04-2018, 10:41 PM
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Tonight the little fatherless mice - some will get it - die. Melted chocolate chips with peanut butter mixed in, poured on trigger to harden, then smeared with some more peanut butter.
Drowning or broken neck. I have no preference.
Carnage. Destruction. Helter Skelter.
I just want death.
  
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12-04-2018, 10:55 PM
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Gone Hunting
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Don't have a garage or the shop to speak from the experience, but from few videos on YouTube sounds like a "rolling log" or "walk the plank" type of response are really effective... And peanut butter for the bait... Smear along the ramp and all over the rotating log, or at the end of the "plank"...
Also, seen one video... Just a bowl of peanut oil (liquid)... The guy got 8 mice a night... Problem is, you have to deal with the bowl full of oily mice in the morning...
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They are very effective. I made and used them a lot. But they are best in outbuildings like shops and barns and most effective where there are too many mice for a trap line.
There are many versions. So far as I know they all work. I know I've used a variety and all of those worked well.
They are also super easy to build and set up.
Wolf is right, leaving them for days is no problem. They can hold more then anyone will catch in a week or even two.
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12-04-2018, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by sns2
Tonight the little fatherless mice - some will get it - die. Melted chocolate chips with peanut butter mixed in, poured on trigger to harden, then smeared with some more peanut butter.
Drowning or broken neck. I have no preference.
Carnage. Destruction. Helter Skelter.
I just want death.
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Bahahahahahaha !
Gonna try out the walk the plank style next spring at cabin
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12-04-2018, 11:07 PM
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Hey I wonder if old bubble gum would work as bait.
Anyone try it out ?
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12-05-2018, 06:30 AM
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Try baiting with part of a cotton ball and trun the traps so they snap towards the wall. Mice usually travel with their whiskers touching the wall so even if they don’t go for the bait they will run into the trap. I have always found the victor wooden snap traps work the best.
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12-05-2018, 06:45 AM
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Raisins soaked in vanilla essence - best mouse bait I ever used
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12-05-2018, 07:45 AM
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Problem is, you have to deal with the bowl full of oily mice in the morning...
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12-05-2018, 12:17 PM
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Still no update? There are several of us waiting to hear if you were successful.
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12-05-2018, 05:33 PM
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i'll put 5 bucks on the second from the left
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12-05-2018, 06:01 PM
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I've had good success by taking a sunflower seed in or out of the shell, and wedging it right into the little hole on the bait part of a traditional wooden mouse trap.
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12-05-2018, 06:04 PM
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i'll put 5 bucks on the second from the left
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I'll put five bucks on the one second from the right.
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12-05-2018, 06:27 PM
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Nothing last night.
Helter Skelter will happen tonight. I can feel it in the air!
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12-05-2018, 07:04 PM
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Nothing last night.
Helter Skelter will happen tonight. I can feel it in the air!
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If it doesn't happen tonight, get a couple of the old all metal and wood traps, and adjust them so they trip if you blow on them.
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12-05-2018, 07:16 PM
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I have had great success with the standard wooden mouse trap...placing half an unshelled peanut onto the trap with a glue gun. Bonus you can catch many before needing to be re baited.
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12-05-2018, 07:55 PM
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A freind in BC caught a whole family of rats on one of these, when he pulled out the pellet gun they a started to scream like baby children, they really sounded like terrified children sreaming for their lives... i can still here them screaming for their lives as they watched each other being murdered one by one, i had to leave when the young one began to chew on it's ankles in a desperate attempt to free itself before it's turn.
I would go with the snap traps.
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12-05-2018, 08:28 PM
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hahahahaha i actually wish that i hadn't taken the time to type out that traumatic experience...i have had some vivid flash backs ever since...
The big one was about the size of one of my size 14 work boots...he took a few shots before he went down...the sound of a helpless scared animal chewing through it's own leg never leaves you i'm guessing...
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12-05-2018, 09:02 PM
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Watch Mousetrap Monday on Youtube
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12-05-2018, 09:20 PM
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hahahahaha i actually wish that i hadn't taken the time to type out that traumatic experience...i have had some vivid flash backs ever since...
The big one was about the size of one of my size 14 work boots...he took a few shots before he went down...the sound of a helpless scared animal chewing through it's own leg never leaves you i'm guessing...
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I've only had small mice caught in the traps. Well and some bugs. I have never heard them screaming, but then again, I'm pretty deaf from loud music and lack of ear protection when shooting.
In the end, they were effective.
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12-06-2018, 09:24 AM
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This is like Dick's hunting stand thread, the anticipation lol
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12-06-2018, 09:26 AM
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This is like Dick's hunting stand thread, the anticipation lol
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Everyone anxiously awaiting an update every morning. 
If this doesn't conclude soon, the OP should put a number on every trap, and we could start a pool as to which trap gets it done.
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12-06-2018, 01:53 PM
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One member on here stated a few years ago that Tootsie Rolls are like crack for mice.
Heat it up, and then put it in the trap, that way they have to chew, not lick.
I have some like the OP uses, but I mainly use this kind:
What I like about it is that it's fairly sensitive, and I squish peanut butter right into the little holes in the paddle. When I clean them out, I often see that they had consumed much of the bait before the trap went off - so it built confidence while feeding.
I also use the multi-catch electronic ones - they zap the mouse, and then flip them into a bin. I run those in the trailer, since I can't get to the trailer that often.
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I use the same trap(the cheap one with the yellow pad). My bait is peanut butter and then i put a few drops of almond extract on it. The smell, they love it. I get a mouse everytime i put it out. really push the peanut butter into the holes and voila, dead mouse. I have experimented with just penaut butter vs. peanut butter with the almond extract...the one with almond gets hit first every single time.
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12-06-2018, 03:18 PM
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Don't know WTH is going on. Baits haven't been touched. I am wondering if when the mouse tripped the old school wooden trap, it whacked him hard enough that he crawled off and died???
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Don't know WTH is going on. Baits haven't been touched. I am wondering if when the mouse tripped the old school wooden trap, it whacked him hard enough that he crawled off and died???
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or you knocked some sense into him hahaha
i have the wooden snap traps in the trailer. every weekend 2 or 3
of the little buggers 
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12-06-2018, 07:24 PM
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Peanut Butter , bar of soap or Crest toothpaste.....
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