Customer Reviews
No complaints. Prompt shipment. Good pricing with flat rate shipping. Appears to be a quality trap. Building up my arsenal of different style traps to continue my war on moles. If one style doesn't work, it's time to try something new. Looking forward to trying this after watching numerous videos out of Europe.
Thanks for taking the time to submit a review! That's what mole trapping is about...having a few different types of traps for the varying conditions. Thanks for the support!!!
Easy enough to use (set). Also like thrr egg fact that I can se me if it’s been snapped w/o digging it up (unlike some other models). Can’t say if it’s effective at killing however as I haven’t caught anything in it yet.
Thanks for the feedback, Mike! I have a few videos that may help you have success. One video shows how to set them and the other videos shows a few little tweaks I like to do to the traps. The tunnel traps has a bit of a learning curve but once mastered, it is a great trap. Thanks!
I recently purchase 6 barrel traps, 4 mole reaper traps, and 4 trapline traps. Between June 8th and the 14th I caught 10 moles. This is the best catch rate I've had. The barrel traps caught 6, the reapers caught 3, and the trapline traps had 1. The property where I'm working has very sandy soil. I was able to place all three traps and keep the tunnels clean. Aside from using a spoon to clean the tunnel, after placing the trap I first covered it with matted grass clippings then a layer of dirt. Especially with the reaper traps, the grass clippings helped keep the tunnel clean and the dirt over the top filled any gap in the clippings and blocked out the light. Less than 8 hours after setting the traps I'd pulled a double on one the barrel traps. Not that I'd expect this to happen regularly, but none of the other traps even give you this possibility. This is an exceptional trap.
Tony's videos introduced me to this concept of keeping the tunnel clean. I'd never heard or seen this before. Aside from a few years of experience most of my knowledge on this topic had come from watching other people's videos. Most will dig the hole, place the trap, and pour a heap of dirt back into the hole. To make things worse I had previously been stomping all the tunnels down, just leaving the space with the trap not completely crushed. I wouldn't recommend stomping tunnels in most situations. Moles move slower when they are digging and are less likely to trigger a trap. You want them to move freely through the tunnels and run into the trigger without hesitation.
I've previously used the Victor Out O'Sight Mole Trap and the DK-1 Gopher trap. The Victor traps were all purchased in 2022. All of them have the weaker spring and are made of a lighter material that wasn't used until 2021ish. The Victor and DK-1 traps are inferior for mole catching compared to the offerings on this site. Much of the improved success I've had can be attributed to the clean tunnel idea, but these traps support that idea. The barrel traps, reapers and especially traplines require a smaller hole, leave the tunnel cleaner and are easier to set the trigger's sensitivity.
Buy some traps. Watch the videos. Clean the tunnels. Kill the moles.
Excellent! So glad they are working out for you. I'm happy you found the video tutorials helpful!