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This is war! I want dead moles! I want blood! OK, well...this is the third trap I've purchased here on Amazon. The first two were duds. This one had the little mother clamped in the jaws in a couple hours and I'm seeing piles of dead moles in my dreams! It's nearly identical in appearance to the others so I can only guess that the "sensor" is more sensitive, more accurate. Here's a tip of the hat to Casey who posted great tips on setting up (for a different brand, but same idea). Be sure to pay attention! From CASEY: FINALLY - a mole trap that WORKS! First off I'm going to say that yes I had trouble at first catching moles with this trap - but I didn't give up - I just had to figure out what I was doing wrong. Once I figured it out it's been dead moles ever since. I've trapped 13 moles in the last two months out of my yard using this trap - I'm ecstatic because my yard was getting over-run with stupid moles. People say I'm crazy and to just leave the moles alone - this is nonsense - the only good mole is a dead mole! Let me tell you how to use this trap: 1. First off you have to know your enemy. Moles are stupid - they only know how to do a few things - Dig and/or repair tunnels and smell stuff - they have a REALLY good sense of smell! Also - they get flat out irate when you mess up their tunnels. When they smell/feel outside air coming into their little tunnel complex they will almost immediately go in search of where that air is coming from and fix the problem. Again - they are really good at fixing their tunnels - use this info to your advantage! 2. NEVER touch this trap with your bare hands! Remember how moles can smell really good? Well if they smell you (or any other weird smell) on this trap they will simply tunnel around it - which will infuriate you. What works for me is I leave the trap outside and only handle it with gloves on. Also - keep a large screwdriver or some other implement to dig with handy that is free of human scent. 3. Check the nuts on the side of the trap to make sure they are not too tight. Mine were way too tight and it took entirely too much force to spring the trap closed. I loosened the nuts probably close to a full turn if not more on both sides. After I did that it was a lot better. This trap is not supposed to have a "hair trigger" otherwise it would go off too easily. So don't wear yourself out trying to make it have a hair trigger. Setting the Trap: First off you need to roll your yard flat and wait a little while to see where the active moles are at. It won't take long - 24 hours max. When you find tunnels - look for nice straight(ish) tunnels - these are their "main corridors" you could say. Don't bother messing around with the tunnels that are going in all different directions or in circles- they may never return to these tunnels - again - only look for nice straight runs to set your trap. When you find a good place to set the trap do this exactly: 1. Firmly step on about a foot long section of the tunnel and smash it down flat 2. Push the trap into the ground on the spot you just smashed down. 3. Step on the trap to open the jaws apart. 4. While your foot is still on the trap - "rock" it back and forth real good to open up the earth so the jaws don't get bound up - you want the jaws to snap shut really fast. Also put your full weight on the trap to really push it down tight to the ground - you want the trigger pad firmly on top of the ground. 5. About a foot on both sides of the trap on a part of the tunnel that you have NOT smashed down - use the screwdriver to open up a good sized hole...big enough to stick a golf ball in - you want PLENTY of outside air to get into the tunnel! 6. Go get a beer and wait - sometimes within 30 mins you will see the trap spring. Then simply go look at the holes you made - one of them will be fixed - the other will not be. He's dead inside the trap on the side where it got fixed - and that's the last thing he ever did. Go throw him out and re-roll the yard and repeat until you are mole free. So far my record is 4 moles in 24 hours - 3 of those were inside of 3 hours of each other. Also - moles will come and take up residence where you've already killed several before so beware of that. Don't think that just cause you got one that you can ignore that area of your yard for awhile - another one will set up shop sometimes within days. It took me a long time to win back my yard. Follow these instructions and be vigilant and you will win the war. Update - August 2017 - Many many dead moles later the trap is still working great. I think I've decimated the entire mole population in this area. My neighbors don't have any moles now either. Thumbs up still! One word of advise..make sure that you push straight down on the trap when you push it into the ground. If you get it sideways at all it could bend things and then the trap won't work correctly so keep this in mind.

These traps are Amazing! The first day I put them out, got up the next morning and had already caught one of the moles. I was going to use the poison worms, but I looked into them and they kill slowly and painfully. I read that these traps kill almost instantly. Not a fan of killing critters, but these moles have destroyed my yard. If I’m going to kill them, I want them to die fast. I used ChatGPT to figure out where to put the traps, now no more tunnels across my yard. Great Product!!!

Works well when mole tunnel properly identified and used in an active tunnel. I got lucky and caught one within minutes of setting it. This is after fooling around for months with the mole bait which never seemed to work for me. We had a service professionally come out before which was effective but $$$… not affordable to keep them coming every few months. There is a learning curve in setting the traps and they can spring shut too easily. As a result there are a lot of false alarms. I will tell you that if a mole falls into the trap, there is no getting out of it. We had gophers as well, and these traps have not worked well for these animals… they are a different beast with deeper tunnels. That is what makes it important to properly diagnose your lawn pest problem. I have a picture of the mole in the trap (which came up with the trap as I took it out of the ground), but out of respect for the deceased, I will not post it. RIP

Y'all, I cannot explain the problem I am having with moles. I'm not even posting a picture of my yard, it's that hideous. Raised tunnels absolutely everywhere. We tried poisons, flooding, smoke, relentlessly running over tunnels and they just persist. We're on rural acreage with 150+ acre plats of farm land all around us. Every mole in the Midwest moved onto our 20 acres. Anyhow, we decided to try this and then if it didn't work, we were going to do the hawk trap next. We chose this since it was a two pack. Watched a couple YT vids and set it on a tunnel we recently smashed down to check that it was active. Bingo! Got one in just under 3 hours. In our case, while waiting for delivery, we ran over a bunch of tunnels to see which ones would pop back up. Noted those and sticking traps there. We'll just keep repeating that until it's slows or hopefully stops. Traps are substantial in weight and appear to be of good quality. Was super easy to set but a bit more work to release (I am a very petite lady). Recommend.

I’ve never left a review on anything before, but after fighting moles in my yard for two year without a lick of success, I finally found something that worked. I’ve tried everything, poison pellets, gas, sonic sticks, poison worms, the other types of traps, water hoses, juicy fruit, the whole nine yards. Bother ever worked. Finally thought, what the hell, I’ll give these a try. First day I set them, caught the first mole. Caught a second one today. Some of the other reviews have outlined the proper way to set them and I followed those steps to the T. What I will add is you have to find the active trails. Take the time to identify them. While wearing gloves go around and poke holes about a dollar coin size every 5-10 feet. Go back and check in an hour. If you have meth’ed out moles like I did, they will have filled the holes back in aready. Again, wear gloves to keep your scent off the traps. Completely flatten about a 6-8 inch second of the trail along with the surrounding grass. You need a good size, flat area. Insert the trap directly into where the trail was. Use your foot to set the trap, then rock the trap all the way to the left and back to the right several times. This clears a path for the scissors so they shut fast. Make sure that the trigger plate is flat and directly over the trail. Sometimes it will get a little off when you first set it. Next open two holes, one on each side of the flattened trail. This will piss the mole off, they come and investigate and fill the holes, find the smashed trail and soon you’ll have that magical moment where you walk out of your house and find a sprung trap. One last bit of advice. The areas where they build mounds, while enticing, are not good trapping areas. Those tunnels are deeper and even it you are able to smash them I don’t think you get enough surface level disturbance to spring the trap. Hopefully this helps y’all and we can all enjoy our yards again this summer.