welcome back to steve rob reviews today is going to be an update on my long-term review
of not only the best mousetrap but how to actually use the mousetrap for my benefit and i've decided
that i had to make a little bit of a tweak to this mousetrap because
the mice were actually taking my bait and running off with it and uh while i switched
baits from last winter if you want to put a link down below for my experiment during the winter
time with the mice with all these different uh youtube concoctions of different powders
that's going to eliminate your mice well they don't work in the summer is my
opinion so what i've switched to is strictly using peanuts now you can use peanut butter over the
wintertime and the early spring or starting in the late fall if you like but to tell you the truth
if you have ants around at all well the ants are going to get to it before the mice ever will
and if you're thinking about other type of baits well so far the best has just been
the old-fashioned peanut so let's come over to the bench here and i'm going to show you some things
that i found out and give me a little bit of a tweak a little bit of a hack on the best mouse
trap that i think exists today and it's been quite successful so let's go over here let's take a look
if you want to catch more mice okay let's start off right here now the peanut butter is good for
the wintertime late fall early spring even these type of dry roasted peanuts are terrific as well
they do work as well but i just go for a bag of these i open them up i take one peanut out
and i drop it inside so why is this the best mouse trap well let's take a look at its uh
it's competition well the competition is is an open platform and you can see where they
can take the bait here quite easily a lot of times without actually touching on the paddle
and they steal the bait now this mouse trap here is just a terrific design and it's got this piece
that screws into the back so easily so you know you just take this in and take it out
you can see where it just clips in and turns and this is where i would just put one peanut and i
would just stuff it in here from side to side and that was great so let's move on to this side here
and you could see where to get a close-up here i just put a piece of wire across now of course
i've got a couple of clamps on the back side here right like last thing you want to do is
snap your finger in there so they're held up right now so now i can play with this all i
want it's not going to snap but as you could see here all i did if i get as close as i can
right about there and you could see i just placed a wire in there put it across so i tried this one
for about two weeks and uh it worked perfectly so now i'm moving on to this one and i've just
designed it a little bit different so that when i cut all these wires i got about 10 of these traps
that i can just place it in the hole here and place it in the hole on the other side
and if i can get my fingers to go in there let me just zoom in a little bit there
and i can't do this one-handed but you can get the idea i'm close enough to the hole right
and that little bit of a zag in there i think that's going to be even better so can you imagine
that they would take the peanut out of here and not touch the trap part you know the the paddle so
if we take this one out i just want to show you closely right up close there can you see
where i had put peanut butter in this before and they chewed the edges all the way around
to get to the peanut butter and they never snapped the trap now sometimes of course they got caught
and sometimes they didn't but you could see where they chewed around the top of the ridge there
so by placing this in here i think is the ideal solution so you just place that in there like this
and then you get your pliers and you just bend the tabs under on both sides like i did here
and that's easy enough right and it goes right over top of your bait so they have to actually
go in here and touch it and uh you know i think that's a lot better than just the uh
the hole by itself because i was getting somewhere the bait was gone
now i will tell you something it's happened to me i think twice where the trap was snapped
but there was no mice in it and i think it might have been the raccoon sticking their hand because
i've got boxes i showed these boxes in my uh in the in the link below for last winter's experiment
but i got these boxes and of course there's got a hole going through and it's wooden box
and i think it was the raccoon sticking their hand inside because they could smell it
inside because i've been experimenting with some with some liquid baits to attract them and uh
so far when i get the resolve on the testing i'll bring that out too but i think this design here
is far superior i'm saying like big time far superior than this style here now i bought
i just bought these off amazon like i don't sell anything on my channel so if you want to look
for these you got to look for them yourself because i don't sell nothing on my channel
i buy these myself and i review them myself this one here was six bucks
this one here whoop almost got myself ten dollars i've seen them as low as ten to twelve dollars on
amazon but sometimes you know you see them on average between eighteen and twenty bucks for
ten and even then that's what i paid was almost twenty dollars for ten and i have seen them lower
what else have i caught with these mouse traps okay so what else have i caught with
the mousetraps well i'll tell you i think the odd time i'm getting a raccoon sticking their hand
in my uh my bait box and then pulling their hand out and the only reason why i think that
is because the trap itself is moved a lot and i've got them in my bait boxes
so they really can't move and so that's the first thing but the second one was
uh for years that i'm following the channel a long time last winter through the snow i
was tracking this rat that actually for the first time we never had no rats around here
was coming out of the neighbor's compost bin well i caught that rat this summer on that trap
and i tell you just the body on that rat had to be about this long and the tail about the same so
when i seen that i've come around the side of my garage where i had my trap out there and i thought
holy jesus like the size of a groundhog at first i could not believe you know it was that powerful
and i mean if you get your finger caught in these traps it's going to sting you know it'll
leave a mark that's for sure so you know you'd be surprised with them serrated plastic jaws
how good they are and the mice don't get out they don't escape if the trap goes off well
you got a mouse and if the trap doesn't go off and your bait's gone you know you got a
smart mouse right so i think that this is a great resolve uh for all of you that are looking for a
good good trap that catches the mice or even a rat you know for under twenty dollars for a box of ten
i think it's a great trap and the addition of that wire going across prevented them from taking out
the peanut and just going away because i don't know what it is but they will not want to step
on that paddle unless they have to so when you put that wire across there first thing they do
is they go a little bit deeper and deeper and then boom
nights out irene so well thanks for joining me here today i hope you uh got a little bit of a
little bit of a tip on a on a mouse trap hack that you know in the first place is a great trap but i
think this makes it even better so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this
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