Trapping year round.

[royalhntr]

Damn you are slaying em.. I mark my traps with a mark for each kill, slash mark style. Also if you want all instant neck kills, cut a rubber band in half and tie it to the little metal wedge. If you use peanut butter on it, just a little bit, they try to eat the rubber band, there teeth get stuck, and they try to pull there head back......WHAMMO. I did read that it is so bad there that you are just setting them empty which is crazy.

[rasbo]

The Kain reaper,have you thought about getting a flute and parading them out of town,,,seems I heard that worked once before,Hamelin I believe..perhaps Olympia would be a good location,plenty O rats there in a big house

[Kain]

Yep just setting them baitless.  The trails they are making are well worn so with a little funneling and blocking I have the pan set right in the path.  I am going to make one of those water bucket traps and see how it does also.  I will bait that with peanut butter.

[Kain]

The neighbor keeps a blackberry bush on the fence line which is where they are living.  I really like the blackberries also so I just find the little trails through the weeds coming from it.

[Kain]

The battle rages on. 

Some Harbor Freight collapsible cage traps.  Had a couple get away but I think I have it figure out now. 

 

 

[Kain]

Booner rat I got with the pellet rifle.




Using weasel boxes to set traps around the yard.  Had to find a way to keep the dogs, chickens, and kids out of them and they work great.

[Machias]

Nice, I made some weasel boxes tonight.

[Humptulips]

 I hate rats. When I was trapping in Oregon they seemed to be everywhere. At least anywhere there was any kind of a structure like a bridge or old building.
Caught a beaver one time down by Sand Lakes that managed to die with about half of it out of the water. The rats ate it's entire face off. Couldn't make a coon set without catching them. Yuk!

[Kain]

Yea they are nasty critters.  My wife hates them and wont go around the shed anymore.  I wish I would have had a nice digital recorder for the rat in the live trap.  It was screaming like crazy whenever I got near the cage.  I wonder if they would make good live bait for bobcats?   

[Humptulips]

  I wonder if they would make good live bait for bobcats?   

Something I plan on trying.

[lokidog]

I had a neighbor above me in Coos Bay, OR that would shoot them off her bird feeder.  That 75 yo lady was a good shot.  Thank goodness she used the shot rounds since her birdfeeder was on my side of her kitchen window.

 

[Boss .300 winmag]

cats work wonders on them too.

[lokidog]

cats work wonders on them too.

Sorry, but I'd rather have rats than cats running around my yard....

[Kain]

LOTS of cats in my neighborhood.   

[RB]

Surprised they are not running off with the traps I have always had to tie them down when using the wood traps. Gave up using them when they started pulling them selves out of the wooden traps so switched to Victor 1 1/2 steel traps and never lost another rat. The ones caught alive were dispatched with .22 bird shot hate the little *censored*s!