Thread: Rat Mission

Got a rat or rats in the walls of the house , made some traps up tonite , hope it likes Peanut Butter

Nice Moose cast!

got any more detail on how they work or how you built them?

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

How many rats do you reckon you have?
Wheres the moose from?

Not sure but I’m told you never just have one , I got some Victor Traps from Carol at DeadRat and made those tunnels up , no takers last night on the peanut butter any suggestions on better bait ?

Yeah the moose cast is a good one , picked it up when I was on a Dall Sheep hunt in Alaska a few years ago .

Possum paste, sunflower seeds, cheese, piece of chorizo.

bacon rind

Bacon, licorse, tunnel traps work the best the live capture ones drown them in a bucket of water to dispatch them
https://www.predatorfreebop.nz/

Wife is involved with the above link they are doing a great job

Originally Posted by Lucky

Not sure but I’m told you never just have one , I got some Victor Traps from Carol at DeadRat and made those tunnels up , no takers last night on the peanut butter any suggestions on better bait ?

Yeah the moose cast is a good one , picked it up when I was on a Dall Sheep hunt in Alaska a few years ago .

Penut butter they can lic off,get toffee lolly,soffen it up to squash on trap,leave for a day,the toffee goes hard.They love the sweet smell and try to bite the hard toffee off.Bang.

Thanks fellas , will up my game tonite with some suggested baits

Sultanas on any trap that has the ability to have bait on a hook etc.

For added effect smear peanut utter on the sultanas.

Originally Posted by Trout

Penut butter they can lic off,get toffee lolly,soffen it up to squash on trap,leave for a day,the toffee goes hard.They love the sweet smell and try to bite the hard toffee off.Bang.

Ahhh crap (weight gained during lockdown....) Have plenty of ingredients for toffee, have to crack put the old edmounds cook book..... cant let the rats have all the toffee!

Have used a bit of cotton thread to tie things on before fiddly but worked well, wouldnt want to do it with a trap that had something in it for the last week

Peanut butter is as good a bait as you will need imo.

If you have plenty of rats i would not set the traps for the first week. I would bait the trap with a bit of pb at the entrance of the trap to encourage the rat into the box. However do not set the trap. Rats are very suspicious of new objects in there area. If you kill Bob the rat the first night and you have all Bobs mates watching some may/ will keep away from the trap as they know its dangerous. If however you have Bob and his mates going in and out of the trap for 4 or 5 days getting a free feed, then you make the trap live and whack Bob that night the other rats think whats going on here ... i know its safe because i have been in there before and they go in and get the bad news also.. Tip no3
https://www.victorpest.com/articles/...-trapping-tips

If you want to try a real flash bait peanut butter mixed with icing sugar..

If you are trapping them outdoors where baits may go mouldy time out told me that blue goo ? possum paste i think it is ?

Finally got the Cunning Bastard or one of them

For those that use a drop-door box trap - how do you dispatch the captured rat?

FYI: I use a Crossman 177 revolver or a Benjamin BB rifle, a bit hard on the trap if you don’t line up the barrel between the mesh!