Big Snap E Rat Trap 6 Pack

Very pleased with the results of using these traps. Forget those wooden things that are a pain in the butt to set.These are easy to set, but a couple are giving me a little trouble when setting and locking them into place, but it only takes a little finagling for a few seconds to set it right. They work very well, and the dead critters are easy to dispose of with minimal mess, just drop them in a bag and wipe the trap down with a paper towel. They're a good value for the price, if you have rats, it's best to have a good number of traps around to eliminate them, because their waste attracts other rats, so it's important to get their numbers down. Dont skimp and get just a couple,this pack of six will be effective. Our neighbors have a wonderful cat that visits us a lot and he catches and eats many rodents around here, so poisoning is not an option, our rodent problem is outside - for now...! These traps are effective, but it's best to expect a few days of wariness from the rats, they are actually a little smart and suspect that new food in the area might be a trap! I use peanut or almond butter for bait, but some recommend chocolate. Just try to set them against walls along the rats' routes and away from pets ,maybe put some item as a barrier.My advice is to watch a YouTube video or two on ridding yourself of these pesky, potentially damaging creatures!

These snap traps work as advertised. They are study and have a very strong spring. While you have to be careful in setting the trap, it is easy to use. Best way to use them is to initially put bait in the trap without setting the spring. Let the rodents get used to eating the bait for a couple of days, then set the traps. It is very effective.

I've used them all. Snap. Glue. Poison. Electric Zappers. I've had periodic mice in my Manhattan apartment for years. The neighborhood has mice. My apartment regularly gets mice. Maybe a couple a year. I am now managing the apartment building and there is an impending rat explosion this winter. Our neighbor is a middle school that throws it's garbage on the sidewalk 5 days a week. Meaning there is always garbage bags of school lunch on the sidewalk. Aside from the occasional homeless person who would tear into the bags it has now become a buffet for rats. Never had to deal with rats before, only mice, so this is quite frightening. For the uninitiated here are your options, and my opinions. Live catch rat traps are useless in my eyes unless you're dealing with a single mouse.Glue traps: Take forever to work. When it comes to consistency in catching mice, you can place a glue trap out and mice will laugh at you as they jump over them. I have caught mice with them but I do believe the mice were drunk. It was new year's eve. They must have gotten into the hooch in the trash. Then there's the problem that if you do manage to catch a mouse, you have a screeching mouse on a trap. Main reason why I hate live catch traps. You will still have to go near the live rodent and dispose of it. In the worst case scenarios a mouse will get caught and then chew off body parts to escape. Blood, gore, and that mouse will never be caught on the trap again. Glue traps suck. Avoid them.Rat Zappers: I've been using them since the rat zapper came out years ago. At the time it was pretty much the only option for zappers. Now there are plenty of models. My results are pathetic for the cost. I had a particularly bad infestation one year where mice would scurry along my walls in the daytime while I would be sitting on couch watching TV. They really had no fear of me. Maybe they last lived with Cinderella.I caught 4 mice the first night with the zapper. Then over the course of the year I caught maybe 2 or 3 more. It's dwindled to the point where last year I caught a single baby mouse. It's also not that I haven't had mice. They just aren't interested in the zapper. I've followed the instructions, cleaned, recleaned, switched baits. In the rare case the trap does go off now it is primarily a false trip. Often with the bait eaten. I've actually heard a loud zap, heard a screech, and seen a mouse run out of the trap. Lightning speed for the lightning avoiding little louse. The fact that it's one trip and needs to be reset makes them less useful for large infestations. You could, of course, buy several rat zappers but with the high price, if you have that much free cash you should just move Mr. Rockerfeller. Okay but seriously rat zappers aren't particularly effective and I would advise against them.Poison: The primary option if you call an exterminator. They will set up bait stations. Put a few blocks of poison in them and place them in a corner. If you live in an apartment without pets or small children, you can also break up a few pieces and throw them around your house. A piece under the sink, behind the radiator, behind the fridge, under the stove, etc. This stuff is effective. Not exactly fast. But definitely works. Within a week, you will randomly find dead bodies. Which is the only downside to poison. Anybody who says mice get thirsty are run outside after consuming poison are living a pipe dream. They go about their routine mouse day, running along their mouse route, and then poof dead. If you're lucky it will be out in the open. Which is unsightly, but it's dead. Sweep it up, throw it out, move along. If you're unlucky you'll smell it and won't be able to find them. They'll be in your wall rotting away. If you're lucky it'll be a small mouse and the smell will pass in a few days to a week. If it's a large mouse or even a rat, good luck, your home will stink for far longer. But I still highly endorse poison. It probably has the biggest impact of any rat trap.Snap traps: Surprisingly the last trap types I've tried. The idea of having to touch dead mice bothers me. So traditional mouse snap traps suck. But the kness mouse traps are designed well. Easy well place baiting of peanut butter. Easy disposal without needing to touch the rodent. Quick certain death. Snap E traps along with poison cleared my apartment of rodents the last several months. While the poison worked wonders and kept the population down, there were still mice who simply avoided eating it. Maybe the poison was too bland for the culinary Ratatouille rodents I have. Either way, I placed a few snap e mouse traps down on a Friday. Went out of town, came back Monday to dead mice. The mice didn't even get to the bait. They tripped the Snap E right away and died. No false trips with bait eaten. Either tripped trap and dead mouse or untripped with bait intact. I have not seen evidence of mice in the past several months, and I attribute it to the snap e mouse traps. The great thing is even if snap e traps don't kill them, they are a great monitoring station to see if mice have returned.Which finally brings me to these Snap E Rat traps. They are simply the snap e mouse traps supersized. I was curious if they would be as effective as the mouse traps. I've never dealt with rats before and I assume they are leveled up mice. Smarter, faster, stronger, and more disgusting.The exterminators have placed bait stations outside, but with the buffet of lunch garbage, most of the poison goes untouched. In these types of situations, you need instant death to make a real dent in the population.I have a small garbage storage shed at the front of the building. I placed all 6 traps spaced out in the container yesterday. Seeing camera footage last night I saw rats running away from the container. I checked this morning. One trap went off. A giant dead rat. Didn't get to the peanut butter. Just died. Other traps untouched and bait intact. That's right boy, I killed your brother, or sister, or cousin. I don't care, but he's dead. Tell your friends. Stay away from my building or face my snap e wrath.It's still of course very early and I was honestly disappointed that rats ran away rather than going for peanut butter and dying. That's why I only gave it four stars at this time. Only time will tell how effective these traps really are against an ongoing rat problem. If it continues to kill rats efficiently I'll bump it to 5, but if they catch on quickly and just ignore the traps I'll be lowering it to a three.his will be a ongoing review with a log of my battle versus the rat kingdom.First night: One trip, one dead rat. Other rats seen in area.Second night: Nothing. Camera footage shows there were rats around the area but no takers. No trips and peanut butter all intact.And so on: Caught one more rat. Then nothing for the last four weeks. 10 dollars a kill is pretty pricey. I've read that if rats discover another dead rat in a trap they'll adapt. Maybe that's what happened. The good thing is, I've never seen any of these traps with the trap sprung, food gone, and no dead rat. Any rat that has attempted to eat the peanut butter has died. Unfortunately, they stopped trying to eat the peanut butter. There is still rat poop feet away from the trap so they are definitely hanging around, just not going for the traps.

Great product. It catches rats just fine. I baited these traps with peanut butter. The sunken bait cup makes it super easy to place the bait without interfering with the trigger mechanism and to make it virtually impossible to steal the bait without getting caught. The traps are super easy to arm. The only issue I'm seeing so far is after several catches the traps get very sensitive,. This appears to be because the "catch" mechanism for the bar is made of plastic and I think it's wearing. Initially I thought that there was no way this thing was going to kill a rat, the spring felt too weak. Boy was I wrong. Over all I'm happy with their performance. Below is a synopsis of my experience.I'm using these traps outside, under my RV (hunting camp) in the middle of the woods.The first time I put these traps out I only put 3 down. The next day I found one trap was not triggered, one was triggered and empty and one was missing. I located the missing one about 10 ft away from where it was set with a dead rat. I reset the triggered traps and placed them back. The next time I checked I was missing two traps, I recovered one with a dead rat and the other I never located. This went on, almost every time I caught a rat the trap was at least a few feet from where I left it. I'm not sure if a predator was trying to drag the rat off or if the rat was able to jump and move the trap that far before expiring, either way they were always expired. I have now lost 3 of the original 6 traps, either the rats dragged them off or a predator drug it off with a rat in it. The remaining 3 traps are now set and I have them tied off with some twine to keep them from disappearing, that seems to be working so far.

A great idea for around the garden and shed. Had to secure the unit so that is was not a “run-away” gadget, with its victim.

Just got the traps yesterday evening. Set one up as soon as I got them. Checked the trap next morning. Bang! A dead rat. I’ve been researching different types of rat traps for a long time and the old fashioned snap trap is still one of the most effective yet cheapest ones. Can’t tell how much more effective this one is comparing to Victor’s, I am using both and the very basic Victor trap got a lot already.

Very strong snap. I tried using other trap. But the but the best I could accomplish was pinning them down. These traps are incredibly strong I haven't had one rat get away and it's kills them pretty much instantly. Best rat trap I have ever had! Definitely worth the money!

worked really well; good quality; on time delivery

Strong trap