How to Set a Victor Mouse Trap 

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I found the printed instructions vague and said- "Man there has to be somebody who made a how to on RU-vid!" Thanks for being "That Guy."

Just to tell you, it won't kill your thumb and forefinger but it hurts a lot. Thanks for this video, when I stop crying I will try again. I should have come and seen here before lol!

Thanks man. This helped a lot. I haven't used a mouse trap for a least 40 years. I needed a refresher. Quite simple and great instructions.

I gottta say, you really can find a "How To" video on ANYTHING!! And I'm grateful ....didn't have a clue! (neither did 512k) Many thanks

Thank you! I love that you did this video in only three minutes. Other videos were like 10 minutes long, ain't nobody got time for that. Your video is very helpful thank you.

Perfect video and no annoying music. Good job.

Thank you for this video! I had to go full screen to actually see exactly where the bar hooked on, (I thought it had to go in the hole?!) but thanks to you, I saw just how easy it really was!! Thanks again.

Thank you so much! The key is the tension like you said. The instructions were not clear enough. You explained it very well for someone who has never set a trap!

Great video. I would add that I've had many new Victor traps that get picked clean by the mice without tripping. On those traps, it seems that the copper trigger is bent too far over, requiring more than a mouse to release it. So, I always test the trip setup beforehand by setting up the trap without "springing" the trap. I use finger pressure to pull up on the latch rod, simulating the force of the spring-loaded piece. Then I push down on the bait trigger to see how much pressure it takes. If too much, then I use a pair of pliers to make the trigger more upright and more sensitive. About half of them need adjustment.

Thank you so very much. Like many others, I didn't have someone to show me this growing up. You definitely helped me and my home out! Finally a homeowner...and I knew mice would come someday

You don’t need to spend a penny more on any other type of trap. These work very well. Came home from a month out of town to find a mouse had made its home in my absence. $2.75 and 3 hours later it was evicted without notice.

I had no idea how to do this... so glad I checked my Google and thank you!!!!

I caught more than 30 mice with this same trap. At first when I bought the trap I thought it wont work because it looked too small in size. But after I used it, I can say it's the best trap I ever tried.

I add an old school round head thumb tack to the middle back side or the trap. It makes it unstable . so when the mouse come to touch and feed , trips much easier.

Kept whipping my hands and thinking it was too sensitive or something, but was doing it the same way you were, put it down and did it and left it like you said and it worked Thank you very much

Thank you. I needed your very helpful video to set the traps. I didn’t have any idea what to do after I read the directions. I don’t ever remember setting a trap, late husband or my cats always took care of the mice. So thank you from this very senior age lady.

Thank you! Literally had no idea how to set this until I watched your video!

Thanks man! Couldn’t figure out where to put that arm bar. Time to kill some mice

Wow I struggled with these traps for years and watched other videos. Your video gave me the missing step....to hold the bar and relieve some of the tension slightly! Thanks so much

Thank you I am confident enough to setup the trap now.

I like these with all metal parts rather than newer Victors that have a yellow plastic part to hold the bait...😊😊😊 been using them for more than 50 years!!

I just set mine up. My min pin is my pest control guy and seems clueless that there is a mouse in my house. I hope this trap works. I am so glad that the instructions in this video were easy to follow.

Thank you..I'm trying some tonight..got a smart mouse who avoids my sticky traps. 🤞🏼🍀

By far the most helpful overview of how to connect the bar to the bait area. Thank you!

Thank you! I watched 3 other videos before I found yours! I could not figure out how to place the “arm”! Gr8 explanation & demonstration!🎉

The easiest way to set one of those snap traps is to use a pair of pliers to hold the kill bar down so that your fingers are no where near it in case it accidentally activates while you're trying to set it.

Hey man, i've been watchin TONS of these and still feeling confused why it wouldn't lock in place, this one seemed to help me figure it out haha thanks!

Thanks! This is my first time living without a cat, so I've never had to do these before 😅

A few tips… wear rubber gloves or something similar so that you don’t get your scent on them. Also you can add the bait before setting the trap. I use peanut butter.

Perfect instructions..! I got just that kind of trap and I wanted to know exactly where bar goes 👌🏻

This was a great, simple, to-the-point video. Very helpful. Thanks!

THANK YOU SO MUCH. OUT OF THE 40 PLUS YEARS I'VE BEEN HERE I'VE NEVER HAD TO SET ONE OF THESE THINGS. I JUST FED A MOUSE A BIT AGO AND OUT OF FRUSTRATION DECIDED TO LOOK TO RU-vid. YOUR VIDEO WAS TRULY A LIFE SAVER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOT YELLING. ❤ I CAN SEE BETTER WITH ALL CAPS ❤ THANK YOU THANK YOU FROM ALL OF US WHO NEEDED THIS WHEW XOXOXO

Thanks for this video. This style, was a little diffrent. Glad you could help 😇🙏

Had to for the 3rd time in my life buy these same traps AGAIN. (3rd location) always need a refresher on how to set them up, just for my own comfort. My my 2nd time back in 2020 in my apartment was 11 in 48 hours. Hopefully I don’t catch a family again in my house that I am living in! Started seeing dead mice near my dogs bowls outside, even caught him tossing up a dead one the other day. Last night? I heard one in the house. Today as I laid one of 4 traps, I seen one scurry back behind my furnace. Figured I leave it off just incase he went exploring. Don’t want to have to pay for a full system clean out running into winter! Great video, thanks!

THE SOUND OF THE SPRING HITTING THE WOOD IS SCARY.

Ty sir you helped out a new homeowner who only does office work do a an adult thing I appreciate it

Ok, I bought some traps awhile back and I felt like a fool. Couldn't figure it out. One of those things I thought guys would always take care for me. Well lo and behold here I am thinking how hard can it be? Well as it turned out I gave up and figured I would throw them in the Trash. I didn't and today scrolling through your videos just discovered your video showing us women how it is supposed to be done. Thank you ever so much. Maybe I should give you a whole list of repairs and fixes needed around my home and you can make a short video showing some of us single woman how to do some repairs. No significant handyman around or to call on for help. PS my engineer father lives about a 1000 miles away. Not like I can call him for help and besides at his age he just is not capable of doing it anymore. Love him to death. If anyone could have fixed it the 'RIGHT WAY', dad did. Maybe there are channels in which they start at the very basics, of tool identification and basic use. I have a power drill and could probably figure it out if I put my mind to it. Just would be nice to know I can go somewhere to get the basic and correct information. I have tile/shower replacement mold, tub scratches, holes in the wall. Entrance door frame, simple lock/deadbolt replacement. When chit is not square and how to check for all those things before diving in a project and then ending up with a bigger problem. A whole host of small repairs, fixes etc. Guess I will pull out that power drill to day and try to figure out what I need. If anyone can recommended a channel sure would appreciate it. BTW Mr. Fixer I have enjoyed the videos, I have seen. Made me think about what I really don't know before starting any project of my own.

Very helpful - thanks. Instructions on the package are useless. On the plus side, these are the good old-school mouse traps and they work. Many manufacturers have tried to “build a better mousetrap“ and they earn a lot of money on complex products and toxic poisons that are bad for our ground water etc. But this is your grandma’s mouse trap from generations ago and it works.

Couldn't read the tiny directions. This was an enormous help. Hate to use them but mice won't quit at night. Thank you.

Thanks. I have always been nervous about this. Appreciate the calm delivery.

Wow, having the toughest time hooking it. Thanks for the help. took time, but it hooked

The plastic version is so much version, that hook was such a pain! Great video.

Well I'm one of those people that are afraid of the mouse trap, and the mouses! But for some reason they've come into the house and love it in here Of course my cat died a month ago so he used to be the one to catch him now we don't have that but thank you for your instructions very good I will attempt to do that again in a few minutes. Appreciate your help here!

Thank goodness for your video, literally no videos on tik tok describing how to set it up. You are a legand I will update this if I catch the mouse deserved a like and subscriber

Thank you so much, I do get jumpy thinking it will snap on me, I like the idea when you said to have it placed where you want it set up on the floor 1st 😁

Thanks so much. I bought it and I saw your great video it very simple and help a lot. 👍

Thanks for the instructions. I was sticking the arm bar THROUGH the hole. No wonder I wasn't catching any mice!

Tip hold the back piece down at all times and slowly let it go and if it doesn’t move further then a quarter inch it’s armed , after find the spot and be extremely easy when putting it down it trips easily

OH THANK you, thank you ....I set 2 traps and didn't snap my fingers even once.!! :) my fingers love you.

This video made me 0% less scared. Thank you.

I am so glad I found a video on this, we've been having a lot of mice problems at my house, and no one here could figure it out!

Thanks, Every time I don't know how to figure things out I try you tube, thanks a lot!!

Thank you so much. There are so many videos on youtube explaining how to set a mouse trap but they dont zoom close enough to show what they are doing!

Thank you! The instructions on the package were very vague. This helped alot!

Thanks a lot, still being very useful as I was trying to set them up the wrong way lol but thanks to you I got it right this time.

Just set it up, thank you for the tutorial and for being so considerate of the mice with peanut allergy 😂🥰

Thanks, great video! I set a mousetrap up years ago, but very frankly forgot. They are a bit Jenkee in setting up, but your video helped a lot!

Thank you!! They really should have a better picture on the package.

Great simple video! Had to make a mousetrap car for Physics, buuuut didn’t know how to actually use the mouse trap 🤣.

Thank you so much for the video. I wondering why the staple in it. I been trying to figure this out for a while. Thanks you😊

thank you because I watched like five other videos and was so frustrated I was crying I didn’t know you had to let the bar up a little to make the tension

Thanks for this video! I had no idea how to set one and have 4 set now! And didn’t snap myself! Lol thankful for this video!

Thanks for the video. I play guitar and golf and need my fingers. I almost lost couple before I watched your video!

Thank you! Exactly what I needed to see today.

Awww thank you ! The instructions are very vague and your video is very helpful. This is the first time that there is a mouse in my house. I bought 6 traps. 🤞🤞🤞 (sorry my english is bad)

I was setting the traps wrong. Thank you for making this video.

Use peanut butter for bate, then put the mouse trap in an empty, UNWASHED, peanut butter jar. Place trap againsta wall, not in the middle of the floor. Don’t leave dead mice in the trap or where other mice will eat them. Use several, 3-6, traps at once to get all the mice at once.

Nice explanation of how the set up goes! 👍 many thanks! I was confused by the staple 🙄 🤣👍

That bar that traps the mouse is known as a kill bar. When the trap is sprung, the time the kill bar is activated to the time that bar hits the mouse can be as fast as - maybe 80-90 mph.

This video definitely helped, almost snapped my fingers off twice 😂

When I place the trap in the exact spot I want it, I hold down the snap bar all the way back using the very edge of a shoe heel while carefully setting the trigger with my hand. Once that is done I *slowly* let the shoe heel off the snap bar. Works perfectly and safely for me every time.

I found that after you set the trap if you very carefully angle the trip piece where the bait goes to the right it will be even more sensitive. I had a mouse take all the bait without the trap tripping before I did this.

Thank you for your help it made it so simple and easy, so thank you again.

Thank you so much! I just knew something was weird because I saw rodent signs in the alley and all winter and spring I had not seen a single mouse. I thought, "Wow, the foxes and racoons are really doing their job!" However, today I was on the back porch and heard a bag rattling and there was small dark grey one. The help you provided was terrific and probably saved my fingers!

To look at the trap, it didn’t seem like it would be difficult to set up. For a reasonably intelligent person, I felt like a moron because I could NOT for the LIFE of me figure out how to set that stupid arm!. I knew SOMEBODY would have posted instructions! Thanks for the video!

I have a bag of these traps never used cause the instructions on back serve no justice compared to this video ty n subd from Boston Ma usa

Giving these a go. I hear these critters in my ceiling at night and I can’t sleep. My cat hasn’t caught one in awhile, so I need to try something else. Hopefully these Victor traps work. Thanks for the video

Once set up you can move it if you always remember to hold it by the big red V end, then you'll be OK. I use them in the garden for voles, using oatmeal mixed in peanut butter for bate. I use no-kill traps for house mice, but voles have higher likelihood of carrying plague.

Thanks for making the set up so easy! 4 set up and ready to get them!!

Thank you so much. You saved my sanity and my fingers.

Hello. Thank you, Mr. Fixer, for making this video. My Dad always took care of this stuff while I was growing up, so I never had to learn how to set traps. Now I know how, thanks to you! Thanks again!✌️😎🐀

Thank you! Never done this in my life and have to do it now while at this little rustic cabin on the make. Dumb rodents!!!!

That was very helpful, thank you!

Thanks for the video! You saved my fingers haha! 😅

Thanks very much for posting this.

Nice, I must have set them to high because the peanut butter is gone and the traps are not sprung. My daughter convinced me to get a live trap. They have a hair trigger and closes the end sealing the mouse inside. Issue is everything sets it off, well in short I just cleaned out a very dead mouse of it. I grow up with the spring type and will keep using them. Thank you for the video.

Nicely done MUCH appreciated!!

The newer version with the yellow plastic pads are a bit easier: the latch can be set to the left of the backside of the yellow plastic...that is easiest to set, but makes the trap less sensitive. Setting the latch to the extreme right side of the back of it, makes the trap more sensitive. Regardless, each time I fail to set these older traps and they explode in my face, I have a heart attack...sometimes accompanied by bruised fingertips. Thanks for the video. All this time, I've been putting the bait in the wrong place! I didn't realize it goes at the front of the metal whatchamacallit.

Thank you for your very clear directions

Thank you for the great video!!! Very informative and easy to follow 🤗🤗. I was so nervous until watching this, again, thank you 😄😄😄

Thanks, the provided directions were abysmal. Video greatly appreciated.

Best video yet!!! Thank you !!

Also, put the bait on it before setting it. Peanut butter works really well. Not a big dollop. Just a small amount so he has to work for his last supper...

Thank goodness for you!! Awful directions, and you did a great job of explaining and showing the visual together! This is coming from a newly retired teacher! lol Good job teach!!!

The only thing I would add is you should bait the trap prior to setting the spring. I just take a bit of craft American cheese and smush it on there, and then set the spring. Will see you tonight, I know they’re coming out and I’m gonna get them!

Great tutorial. Thanks.

Needed this today. Thanks so much!

Thank you for your informative video on how to set a Victor mouse trap. The instructions on the packet are hard to follow.

Thank you,,,needed a show and tell....