Rat trap

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

Has anyone any experience in this type of rat trap? I’ve been catching rats regularly in the neighbours gardens for a few years now. My other 2 cage traps are old as the hills, rectangle elevated door plate activated standard traps. I catch in them all the time. Never had any success in this trap at all. Don’t think it’s up to much and a very bad design, I get the impression that they would be able to get out of it easily if you could get one to enter it to begin with that is lol. Just looking to know if anyone has any insight on the matter, cheers 

 

Edited January 9, 2022 by THE GENERAL

[TheRatMan 61]

Pretty sure this is called a monarch type trap. Have used it on a couple of occasions but in all fairness live trapping rats is alot more hassle than it's worth. Would rather be using snap traps or fenns in boxes. ATB

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

46 minutes ago, TheRatMan said:

Pretty sure this is called a monarch type trap. Have used it on a couple of occasions but in all fairness live trapping rats is alot more hassle than it's worth. Would rather be using snap traps or fenns in boxes. ATB

Have you had any success with them at all? No hassle at all i enjoy it.

[Daniel cain 46,011]

I've caught plenty of young rats with them,most is 4 young greys...fit a plate at the back so they can't dig under,then  they have to go right into get at the bait

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

1 hour ago, TheRatMan said:

Pretty sure this is called a monarch type trap.

Yep. As originally supplied by S. Young & Sons (Misterton) (Click Here)

As Dan says; Great on younger rats, for some reason. Dunno why. But, I've seen one so crammed with them, I don't reckon ye could have squeezed another one in! Strange.

[Rabid 1,936]

I have one I was given, I put it on the shelf in the workshop and never used it for a couple of years, then I spotted it and took it off the shelf to look at and put it down on the bench and went off done something else, couple of days later I went in the workshop and feck me there was 2 hound rats in it, no boat, no effort, nothing, so I baited it and not had anything since but the fens get one or two every night.

[Flacko 1,755]

Rabid what’s hound rat ?

[The one 8,503]

We tried one in the grain store at a piggery  for some reason we put a pie in it , We caught nothing then one morning there was a few sparrows in it and a rat which had beheaded the spuggies the dog sorted him out and we caught nothing since then in it 

[EDDIE B 3,166]

17 hours ago, Flacko said:

Rabid what’s hound rat ?

Like a greyhound fox. Bigger than average, and longer in the leg.

[Nicepix 5,650]

I've had rats in a similar type of trap. As others have said, mainly youngsters. If you are going to dispatch them by shooting you'll need a comb in order to stop them running about.

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

On 06/01/2022 at 08:06, Nicepix said:

I've had rats in a similar type of trap. As others have said, mainly youngsters. If you are going to dispatch them by shooting you'll need a comb in order to stop them running about.

Similar type trap? Not the same then. 
No comb needed. I can catch them the best, dispatch accordingly. This trap I’ve had no results on, hence the thread. Atb 
 

[Nicepix 5,650]

4 hours ago, THE GENERAL said:

Similar type trap? Not the same then. 
No comb needed. I can catch them the best, dispatch accordingly. This trap I’ve had no results on, hence the thread. Atb 
 

Exactly the same design, but different trade name or manufacturer. Some have counter balanced trapdoors, others sprung ones. I would be interested in how you dispatch them? 

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

13 hours ago, Nicepix said:

Exactly the same design, but different trade name or manufacturer. Some have counter balanced trapdoors, others sprung ones. I would be interested in how you dispatch them? 

This one is a counterbalanced trap, I’d firmly say it’s the worst trap I’ve ever owned. I’m sure you are

[Nicepix 5,650]

Yes, they are poor. I have four. Three were gifts from customers who had no luck with them. One is a counter balanced mouse trap. Small mice can get through the bars and bigger mice could pull the trapdoor open. The last bit was solved by adding weight to the mechanism. I suspect that older rats manage to get the trapdoor open on the larger spring operated traps, but I haven't yet seen that to confirm it. But the only time I caught ratus ratus in one was when I'd put a break back trap inside. The bait had been taken on three nights withot a capture so I put a Springer trap inside.

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

On 10/01/2022 at 06:33, Nicepix said:

Yes, they are poor. I have four. Three were gifts from customers who had no luck with them. One is a counter balanced mouse trap. Small mice can get through the bars and bigger mice could pull the trapdoor open. The last bit was solved by adding weight to the mechanism. I suspect that older rats manage to get the trapdoor open on the larger spring operated traps, but I haven't yet seen that to confirm it. But the only time I caught ratus ratus in one was when I'd put a break back trap inside. The bait had been taken on three nights withot a capture so I put a Springer trap inside.

Surprised me today when I checked two traps I had set was one in each of them, maybe not that bad after all lol