Excellent video…clearly showing How-To set the traps. I have a harpoon trap but never any success. Recently bought a Victor out-of-sight scissor trap but the small illustrations on the box are worthless. Today I’ll set the scissor trap per your instructions. Thank you for a clear, informative video. I’ll let you know if it works
My neighbor had two cats. One went after birds. The other could care less about birds. She would listen to the lawn. She would dig and pull out a mole.
73 years had zero for 71. Last year discouraged 1 with roundup in very dry mulch run by garage. This year I must have a family in back yard. This month those cute bushy tails are destroying my front yard digging. Deployed BB gun and after 2 days I think those critters have associated my yard with danger. Time will tell. Glad to learn about moles. I erroneously thought they ate roots. Will identify runs and shop for traps. Very dry year so perhaps forced them to expand hunting area.
I have 2 old mole "traps" that you load a 410 shotgun shell into. They belonged to my grandparents. They are in need of some repairs so ive never used them.
These traps likely have value as antiques, and definitely have educational value. We would be grateful for some pictures of the devices if you have them. Contact info is available at www.wildlife.k-state.edu
I have several kinds of traps, the Gonzo Mega Grip, Trapline, Cinch Trap, and the Victor Harpoon trap. The harpoon trap is the only one that I've ever caught moles with. We have real rocky soil and scissor traps are almost impossible to set. The Gonzo Mega Grip is like setting a bear trap the spring is so strong. The Cinch traps are terrible about rusting, and I have never caught a mole with the Trapline.
It took me watching your video specifically on the trapline trap dozens of times to realize some keys that you don't show clearly how to set all the key points. I'm new to using trapline traps, I recently bought my first dozen. I primarily use cinch type traps on gophers and the occasionally squirrels, holes twice size of a gopher. On one 34 acre rolling hill hay farm I have trapped here in Marion County in last 6 years, 300+ gophers. 34-1st yr, 37-2nd, 90-3rd, 78-4th, 36-5th, 24-6th, plus this years +7. It takes a lot of digging to get to side runs for gophers. The extra challenge of half dozen squirrel's. Gophers, squirrels, moles overlaying runs. Then you have voles that take over once you get rid of the other 3. We have flesh eating black beetles that clean up the body count once the fly maggots get going on them and yellow jackets help too. One thing you don't show or say and which is important yet vague visually without words. At 7:28 in the video, the long rod that holds the sensor on the spring side in place, on the jaws side the long rod loop barely holds one side of the jaw open. That is a key not shown well in other videos either. That has led to some channels showing the damage done to their fingers when all parts of the trap aren't correctly positioned. Always wear gloves when setting traps, best to use leather instead of cotton. I use lined leather for durability to help clean out tunnels. I learned back in the 1980's the Out of Sight traps triggers had to have sensor bent if soil too hard to push claws into the ground so that the mole would trip the trigger. Out here in Western Oregon we have a wide variety of species of mole sizes. Out of Sight traps work well for medium to large size moles, as well as do mole bait. Smaller moles won't take the mole bait since the worms they eat are smaller than earth worms. Some mole species are very small, more like a shrew or a vole or even smaller, with tunnel sizes from
No, different traps and methods would be needed for ground squirrels. Here is a link to good information about managing ground squirrels produced by the University of California system: www.groundsquirrelbmp.com/management-cgs.html. Depending on the species of ground squirrel that you are dealing with, you may need larger or smaller traps. We can provide more specific information if we know the state you are located in and species of ground squirrel the you're dealing with.
I have a ton of moles and voles I put down mole max because I'm afraid to trap and kill chipmunks. Is there any way to set traps to make sure it only catches moles and voles and won't get chipmunks?
I bought two WIRE-TEK mole Eliminator® traps this spring that are pet friendly and impressively effective. They're a bit pricey but built like a tank and very easily set.
Although chipmunks and other rodents often occupy abandoned mole runs, they do not typically live in active runs. The trap sets we demonstrate should not capture chipmunks when properly placed in active runs. We also show how to determine if a run is active. Runs that are occupied by rodents should have visible entrances at some point along the run.
Or get you two fiest dog pups a shovel and a rake they will dig your yard up and occasionally catch a mole take the shovel cover up the ditch they dug and use the rake to get any loose material that was left. shzzzz just kidding their a lot of fun.
