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Victor 0631 Out of Sight Mole Trap |  | Brand: Victor
Category: Lawn & Patio
List Price: $13.59
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 1060
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 2.8 x 5.5 x 8.3
MPN: 0631
Model: 0631
UPC: 036348006312
EAN: 0036348006312
ASIN: B00004RAMY
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| Features:
| • | Features malleable iron jaws for superior strength & durability | | • | Ideal for sandy soil | | • | Fully assembled, sure firing trap | | • | Setting levers are included |
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Product Description
Features malleable iron jaws for superior strength and durability. Ideal for sandy soil. Fully assembled.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 58
 Don't follow the directions November 1, 2007
Geoffrey Klos (St. Louis)
96 out of 99 found this review helpful
Hallelujah!!! The wicked mole is dead.
For 2 years I have hunted this critter. I have read the entire internet. 2 years of research led me here.
For those of you with mole problems, let me save you some time. Forget everything you think you know. The only way to deal with moles is to kill them. The only way to kill them is to trap them. Baits don't work. Treating for grubs don't work. Moles primarily feed on worms, not grubs. Sonic vibration thingys don't work. These traps work.
BUT...
Don't follow the directions on the package. I will do my best to explain how to employ this product.
First of all, if you have to, stamp down all mole runs in your yard. Ordinarily, you don't want to do this, because it just encourages the mole to dig new runs, thus doing more damage. But you need a current picture of where the mole is active in your yard.
The next day after you have stamped down all the runs, observe any new runs. You are looking for long straight runs. Long straight runs are like mole highways. The curvy short runs are hunting roads. The curvy runs are less traveled. Hunt the highways.
Open the trap and set the safety catch. Set the trap down next to the run where you want to place it. Take your foot, and stamp down the mole run just where you want to place the trap. Should only be about your foot's width. Don't push down hard. You want the ground you stamp down to be level with the rest of the yard.
Now take a straight blade shovel and create a notch on either side where the trap blades will go. You don't have to go real deep. Just a couple inches. Wiggle the shovel if you have to, to create those "pockets" for the blades of the trap to go into.
Carefully place the trap into the notches or pockets you just created until the trigger of the trap is level to the ground.
Unhook the safety.
It took me 3 days to catch my mole once I set my trap this way. I moved it once after the first day because I wasn't happy about the run I had originally placed it. If you don't catch your mole after 3 days, then look for a better spot.
Warning!! If you go out to check your trap, bring a shovel and wear shoes. When I got mine, he wasn't dead. The trap had just got him in the back and he wasn't going anywhere, but he was alive. So when you pull up your trap, go slow and be gentle. You don't want to accidentally release him. Be ready to whack him with the shovel.
For 2 years this mole has terrorized my yard. I was at my wits end. My yard is destroyed. Let the healing begin thanks to this product. Now kill some moles!!
EDIT 3-24-09: I just wanted to give everyone an update. I got my third mole last night using these traps. Add that to the 3 my parents have killed, our family alone is responsible for killing at least a basketball team of moles. If anyone has any questions about how to kill moles, post or email me, and I am positive we can kill your mole too.
EDIT 3-16-10: I've been reading some other reviews here and I wanted to clear up some misconceptions and misunderstandings.
First, if it looks like the moles are going around your trap, the most likely cause is that the trap is set too deep. That ties to another reviewer who said they set the trap with the trigger at grass level. That would be too shallow. Before you set the trap, tamp down the run to GROUND level (not grass level). When you cut the notches for the trap blades, and place the trap in the ground, the trigger should lay even with the rest of the ground.
Second, while true that moles will eat grubs, their primary food source are worms. Worms are usually more plentiful, and they move through the ground, thus making them easier to find for a hungry mole. Grubs are more stationary. A mole will eat them, but it requires more luck to find them.
Third, if you don't get a mole in the first day, don't panic. Give it a few days. Remember, the best place to put the traps are in the long straight runs. Those are the mole highways. Just because it's a highway though, doesn't mean your mole will use that highway every day. Give it some time. It's not necessary to move your traps too often. Even if your mole seems to be active in another area of your yard, if you picked a good spot to place your trap, he will come back and use his highway again.
Fourth, moles are territorial. There may be some overlap, but it's minimal. HOWEVER, keep this in mind. Just like you, moles prefer to travel along pre-dug roads. You don't build a new road every time you want to go to the grocery store. Moles don't like to either. So, even if you kill your mole, it is VERY likely that another mole will move into your yard. Keep in mind also, that the runs you see at ground level, are only a fraction of the amount of tunnels that might be running through your yard. Moles don't hibernate. They follow the worms in the winter, and worms dig in deeper during the winter. For a mole to survive the winter, that mole has a whole labyrinth of tunnels deep under ground. Easy pickings for another mole looking to move into your yard.
Edit 4-29-10: Taught my boss how to use these traps and he got his first mole this weekend. The moles in St. Louis are having a bad day!
Edit 5-28-10: Got another one last night. I've had a mole kicking around the area for the last few months and just couldn't get a good run to trap. Finally, the idiot moved into another area of the yard, and to do that he had to make a couple long straight runs to get there. Well, that was his last mistake. I had the traps in the ground less than 12 hours. I woke up this morning to dead mole. There really is nothing better with your Corn Flakes than dead mole.
Edit 7-22-10: So about a week after I killed my last mole in May I got another one destroying my yard. Took me 2 months, but that mole is now dead. What a wonderful thing heavy rain is. When it rains, it brings the worms up, and the moles are soon to follow. Right into the waiting arms of the sharp teeth of my mole trap.
Victor 0631 November 11, 2008
Saeed K. Rahimi
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is an excellent product. I had to play with the sensitivity of the trigger a bit before I used it. Once set, it worked very well. Trapped a couple of moles in 24 hours and problem has gone away now.
I did not like the manufacturer's instructions. I had to find out how to set it myself. Here is what I did:
1. Armed the trapped with the safety clip on.
2. Found a straight area on the mole's runway
3. Flattened a straight part of the runway a couple of inches wider that trap by stepping on it
4. Used a putty knife as wide as the trap jaws and cut two lines perpendicular to the run. I widened the cuts a bit for the jaws to push trough the cut easily
5. I pushed the trap jaws in the cuts until the trigger tip just touched the top part of the grass.
6. Removed the safety clip
You can protect the trap if you are like me and have neighbors with kids and/or dog by covering the trap with a large bucket and a heavy weight on top of it.
Great Trap December 24, 2008
Wilson Winn (Texas)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Great Product. Made of strong durable metal. Will last a long time. I had best success by not using the product like explained on the box. I used a shovel or axe to make slit in the ground for the "clamps" to fit into to secure a clean catch when tripped. Before setting the traps walk on top of the raised tunnels to find the most active sites to know where to set the trap. I have killed 5 moles in my yard in the first week. Happy Hunting and Good Luck.
Caught in 3 days September 22, 2008
MD Gardener (Southern MD, USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've had at least one mole terrorizing my landscaping for about 8 months now. I initially let him go, since he wasn't actually damaging plants. In time, though, he'd separated enough roots from the soil that I nearly lost several plants, and my 20 ft crabapple was dropping half its leaves in June. Something had to be done. I'd read the reviews here early on, but decided to try some control methods that I could get locally. This trap was not one of those.
I used three of the Victor harpoon-style mole traps, and managed to get them triggered successfully, but the mole escaped. The design is simply flawed--in pushing the harpoon downward, the trap tends to force itself out of the ground. To help prevent this, the trap has very long stakes that need to be driven into the ground... if you have much gravel in your soil, like I do, this is nearly impossible.
Several states' university extensions have tested the relatively new gummy-worm style baits with reasonable success, so I decided to try them. Because my moles "highway" tunnels were right next to my house under plastic, I was able to peel back the plastic and drop them right into the tunnels (the plastic made up the roof of the tunnels). I checked them each day for two days and my mole was actually eating them. I had to leave town for a week, and when I got back there had been no new mole activity, which was not normal for my busy guy. I figure the gummy worms did him in.
Unfortunately, another mole invaded about 2 weeks later--completely different habits, though--this one preferred the lawn over the landscaping beds. I'd ordered these traps the same day I placed the gummy worms, so I set three Out O'Sight traps per the instructions given by other reviewers (NOT THE ONES PROVIDED). In three days I had my new mole.
One additional method of locating active tunnels that I like to use is to poke a stick through the top of an existing tunnel that you suspect might be a "highway". Place a stone over the hole to block out the light. Check under the stone daily--if the hole is filled in, the mole has passed through again. Set your trap there.
Given the choice, I prefer these traps over the baits for two reasons--no poisons in your yard to accidentally get your neighbor's cat, and there's a little mole body to confirm that you actually got him. Just be prepared--the little critters are actually kinda cute.
Familiarize yourself with their habits, follow the instructions given by the others here, and be patient, and you'll have your moles.
Simple, effective and durable trap February 12, 2009
Javier Leija-diaz (Summerville, SC)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
First of all, do not follow the instructions in the box. Instead read some of these reviews for very good tips.
I got two moles in about five days. It took me a little bit to learn where and how to set it. I pretty much followed the good advise given in other post, I recommend you do the same, their method works.
Before this trap I tried a bunch of less-aggressive methods but to no avail. It is really hard to get rid of moles in a nice way. Finally I got fed up and went for a trap. Also, with a trap you can see the body of the critter and know for sure that you got it.
The trap has a simple-but-effective design, it is built of solid, black-painted iron and it is bigger and tougher than what I thought it was going to be from the product pictures, but it is not huge. The spring is very strong and I have to put my weight on it (using the provided levers) to set it (remember to use the locking hook).
The triggering mechanism is simple and reliable, although I used a file to round the edge of the holding "stick" to make it slide out easier of the trigger piece (added sensitivity) but be careful not to over-do it! or it will trigger by itself.
The trap stays out-of-sight in my backyard because it lays low and it is black. I added a bunch of tree leaves on top of it to make it invisible. The leaves don't interfere with its functioning.
The most difficult thing about setting this trap is placement. I'm still learning where is the most likely tunnel that the mole is going to use. I'm using little construction flags to mark tunnels that I step on to find out which tunnels are the most active.
One if the moles that it caught was still alive when I checked the trap, so bring a shovel with you in case you need it.
Also the price is very good compared to other very expensive traps.
I highly recommend this trap.
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