Wish me luck, I'm hunting tonight.

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My work has a mouse infestation going on so I rigged up a deadfall under my desk using an old ammo crate and some stick. I'm using, sort of, a widget trapper trigger. I'll take some pics in the morning, hopefully of my success to post. Didn't have a camera with me.

I'm using some peanut butter on the end of the bait stick.

The mice have gotten so bad that they have chewed up the internal wiring of a fax machine, peed on copier paper in the copier and left little drops all over the place.

So you don't think I work at a pigsty, I work for a shooting sports wholesaler. We sell food crop seed for deer management and they have gotten into that read bad out in the warehouse. Recently they moved the seed out into a container so the mice left in the warehouse are getting adventuresome looking for new food sources.

Anyway, thought it would be fun to try out this skill in a way that I could legally. I think next I'm going to figure out a way to rig a spring snare. ;)

Charlie
 
Hmmm makes me think of...
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CShepherd said:
I work for a shooting sports wholesaler. <SNIP>
Anyway, thought it would be fun to try out this skill in a way that I could legally. I think next I'm going to figure out a way to rig a spring snare. ;)

Charlie
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If you work in the shooting sports, then I think you should be using one of the great "mousetraps" that Dixie Gun Works used to sell. It's a black powder percussion device that uses a few grains of powder behind a paper wad. The trap's trigger is, well... the trigger. The mouse trips it and BANG, he's a goner.


Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
Best of luck!!

Your trigger need to be hair, and make sure you set up your deadfall on a flat surface.
 
Well, I was all excited when I got to work this morning as my trap had been sprung. Alas, I was foiled by the cleaning lady last night who vacuumed and apparently had bumped it. Guess I'll reset it tonight and try again.

I'll have some pics tonight of the setup for your viewing pleasure and critique. :-)

Charlie
 
I was a supervisor for a large pest control company. Mice in warehouses in a pallet of food do not move more than 3 to 10 ft from their nest in their whole life. Everything is there and they don't need to drink water like rats, the moisture in the seed is enough! They will only move out when there is too many and the dominant's drive out the weak.
With the high carb and protein in the seeds I would go with a sugar bait. Believe it or not natural fruit juice gummi bears will outproduce peanut butter in many applications.

Whittle a thin barbed point on the bait stick and spear the gummi BEFORE setting! I have caught multiple's with the same gummi, durable and reusable and no mold and rot like peanut butter if left unattended.
Happy hunting and let me know your catch count.

P.s. take a bunch of droppings and place them all around the trap and leading away. They are almost blind and attracted to the pheromones and crap, they are curious and will wonder if there is food or mates. Trained a lot of guys and could go on and on.......
Regards,
Brad
 
Well, this time around the mouse cleaned off the peanut butter but didn't manage to trip the trap so I'm taking Brad "the butcher"'s advise and using a gummy candy. I also set it with an extremely hair trigger so I hope to have better luck this time. We'll see in the morning.

I do have pics, just not enough time to get them posted but I promise I will.

I know, "no pics, it didn't happen." :-)

Charlie
 
Sounds like a good opportunity to hone your pellet gun marksmanship skills IMO. :D
 
Foiled again. One of the other salesmen stomped on a mouse about 5 feet from my desk so it's very likely he killed the one from the neighbourhood that we've been seeing.

I had no activity at my trap this morning.

I'll keep trying it. I'm going to try honing the trap a bit more to make sure that it's real easy to trip.

Charlie
 
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