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Easy to set. Just pull back and click. The large pedal is ideal for runway trapping. Quick, humane killing trap is highly effective. Easy to clean.
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Woodstream M144 Power Kill Rat Trap
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This Victor rat trap caught the rat the first evening I set it. Easy to set and hard to get your fingers smashed.
Merchant has fast shipping and the rat traps arrived in great shape.
Rating: 
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-12-26
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Sure kill, with a little creativity
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(1) These traps are greatly superior to the older wooden traps. They have a larger trigger area. They are easier to load. They are easier to unload. It is almost impossible to snap yourself by mistake with one of these. Something that cannot be said for the old-fashioned ones. It's worth the extra money to buy these, greatly worth it.
(2) One website recommended using gloves to handle the traps. It said that human scent could scare off the rats. I followed that advice.
(3) One website recommended putting the trap out unarmed for a couple of days so the rats could become accustomed to eating from it. I did not follow that advice. The rat noises were keeping us awake, and I did not have the patience. It sounded like good advice though.
(4) I did not catch anything the 1st two nights I had this set. Then I started slicing walnuts and putting them around the traps. The first night I did that, I caught a rat. It is useful to note that all of the walnut pieces surrounding the trap had been eaten, all. So the rat ate all of the 'safe' food, and then went for the peanut butter/oat/walnut paste that I put in the trap.
(5) I also used a Victor Electronic trap. Same procedure worked. I put a trail of sliced walnuts leading to the trap. First night I did put a trail to that trap, I also got a kill.
Score so far: 2 kills for the M144, 1 kill for the Electronic trap. For the squeamish, the Electronic trap is easier to deal with, but some users have reported getting shocked reloading the unit with new batteries.
Rating:
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-11-08
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Nice improvement over the old wooden traps
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I bought a few of these after the rats became afraid of my old-style wooden traps. I have to say that they are a nice improvement. The plastic will not stain or take on a smell. They are also easy and safe to set, with very little chance of busted fingers. The bait hole also lessens the chance that a rat will take the bait without springing the trap.
I caught one so far with these. I could hear the rat thrashing about for several minutes. That never happens with the old wooden traps, they die instantly with those. I would still recommend these new traps just based on being safer to set.
Rating: 
(4
out of 5) @ 2008-02-21
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