Victor M130 Quick Set! Mouse Trap

It's a bit hard to rate this product...on the positive side, I give it a 5 for design. It's so easy to use and is way better than the old style mousetraps. You can set this with one hand and no fear of getting snapped, and you can remove the mouse from it without having to touch the mouse. Really nice.On the negative side, it doesn't always trip. I am frequently finding that the peanut butter is gone and the trap has not tripped. There's no way to adjust the sensitivity, so I don't know what to do. I fear I'm just making my mice fat.I wrote the company a while ago and, to their credit, they responded. They told me to not put too much peanut butter in the trap. I've done that, but I often find the traps untripped.So: Really super design, and when it works it is great, but it doesn't always work.Given the fact that reliability is an important part of any product, I'm giving this a 2.

This works well, and killed a mouse for sure. It is reuseable which is "green." But the setting of it is a bit fussy, snapping shut on me trying to put it in place several times. False closings happened, and at least when tripped the bait is no longer "feeding the pests" but it would be nice if it weren't quite so sensitive to vibrations. One of the two in this package broke (the metal hook separated from the plastic shell and no way could I restore it to function and it was not so "green" after all.

The Victor mouse traps in the picture are not the mouse traps that are being shipped. I have had the pictured traps with the red V and they are larger and have better spring action. The ones that are being shipped are a smaller variety with a weaker spring, definitely inferior to the ones pictured. Twice Amazon shipped me the inferior traps. They have allowed me to return them and are now giving me a refund. However, Amazon should change the picture or deliver the Victor traps that are pictured. I have seen the ones that were shipped in stores so I now wonder if Victor still makes the better trap. Why they would replace a good trap with an inferior one is a mystery. I wanted to use them to catch voles since they can be put directly over the hole. The smaller ones are useless.

Having been unable to create a method of capturing marauding mice and teleporting them unharmed to another galaxy, I resorted to a humane trap, intending to drive them several miles into the county and release them to find their county mouse cousins. Alas and alack, the mice were able to enter the humane traps, retrieve the bait (peanut butter on a bit of cracker) and exit the traps with the bait. Perhaps they work in pairs with one holding the door open while the other goes in for the food. With a heavy heart I next purchased a pair of these traps. For many nights the mice could count on their evening meal, the bait strategically placed in various places in this trap. They walzed in, dined, and left, no doubt laughing their little tails off. It seems a human with a master's degree in psychology is no match for the average rodent. Then, wonder of wonders, last night the traps actually lured two hapless diners to their death. My delight was short lived upon reading reviews here that the mice do not die instantly, but might suffer for a time before expiring. What's a person to do? My advice, if you do purchase this type trap, is to use just the smallest amount of bait (my successful last night bait was cream cheese) which I rubbed the entire length of the pressure activated metal strip. I think previously I was using too large a piece of cheese or cream cheese. I suppose I'll continue to use the traps, as I have to get this problem resolved though it's awful to think of them suffering at all.

These are really good traps. I really HATE to trap mice, but they have invaded my cars, and I simply must. Old-style snap traps are so gross to 'empty', and I was always setting them off when trying to bait them. These traps are super easy to bait, set, and best of all, empty. Just squeeze them and the poor mouse is released. I've used them for a year and just purchased more!

The Victor allows you to bait the trap without having it snap shut on your fingers. You never have to touch the mice in the traps. I am fighting a war with the mice in my tack room. I ordered eight of these and reused them over and over again until they no longer would click and hold open. Make sure that when you bait them that you put the bait towards the outside not near the inside. I had several not nice mornings where mice had taken the bait I put deep inside and were still alive when I checked them the next morning, paraplegic mice, ugh.

Our regular Victor spring mousetraps are great, but my husband has to set them. So I thought I'd try these so I could help him out.(We seem to have been invaded...caught 38 mice so far in an area off our kitchen in the last 10 days that's smaller than the inside of my Camry! We haven't even started elsewhere :-)Even when these dumb traps are triggered, they don't catch anything! I have tried placing the bait in all sorts of positions...on the trigger, under the trigger, on the inside top of the trap, behind the trigger, even all of those places at once (which was the only time the darned thing even got triggered.)These are useless. I am soooo disappointed.

For those of us with delicate sensibilities, these are easier to set (no startling detonations) and dispose of the dead mouse. As noted by others, though, and true of spring traps in general, usually there is no coup de grace, but a poor, struggling little animal. You need to set the trap so that it is at the end of a narrow passage (putting, for instance, a long, heavy box parallel to a wall and pushed against a corner to create a blind canyon) so the mouse cannot simply eat the peanut butter from the side and escape.