rat trap - which one?

[david2363 42]

I'm going to buy a couple of rat traps - the only one I've used before was a Monarch (I think) it was hanging up in the shed when I was a kid.

Anyway back to the future,or present at least.I've seen a few different ones on the net,can anyone please advise me on which one is best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cheers

 

Dave

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Dave; Top one's a 'Monarch'. Good desighn for younger rats, in my personal experiance. But that one looks a bit too silvery and shiney to me. Has that been hanging in a shed for years? Smacks of a 'Crap Man' chinker to me, mate. What ever.

 

Next one? Cheap reproduction of a very old model. And I never did like the originals. Sure, they'll catch a rat - if ye know what ye doing with them - but they make it unnecassarily hard going.

 

Bottom one? Piece of shit. I wouldn't bother.

 

No, speaking from experiance (it's what I do, after all) I'd say, if ye just want a 'couple of rat traps' and ye want cages? Go for the open ended, treadle jobs produced by BODDIS. They're a British company that's been around longer than you 'n me put together.

 

They still make a cracking little single entry trap, complete with bait box. I've used them and swear by them. Springs are a bit pissy, I'll grant ye that. But they certainly please me.

 

Available via KILLGERM in Ossett. Unless ye can track down Boddis's home number? I've lost it, I'm afraid. But they really are a cracker.

 

Bethal Rhodes is another Brit company, still knocking out good kit.

 

If you, or anyone else here, wants more details - even piccies - just ask on here and I'll get back and lay it on. Bit pushed right now. But I'll have time later tonight.

 

Oh, and if ye want Serious traps? I can put ye onto a US outfit who makes and sells what looks, to me, like the Muvva F*kka of " Squirrel " Cages, but would also do fantastic for rats. Dollar exchange rate and price of British steel being what it is? For a case of a dozen; I'd go Yank!

[david2363 42]

D.S - I got this off killgerms site.

Is this the one you are talking about?

 

 

[john b 38]

I've knocked out a couple of posts that didn't seem to have any content other than repeating the post above.

 

John

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

That's the kiddie, Dave! Made in England, by Boddis It's a good, functional little trap that does as it says on the tin, mate. I've taken my moneys worth or rats in those things. I rate them very highly.

 

Little tip? See that tin plate just inside the entrance there? Well, rats prefer not to stand on steel, when they can avoid it. So what I do, I wipe it over with PVA glue. Then, while it's wet, I sprinkle dry dirt all over it. Just the feintest covering, else it might jam the door. But it gives ratty that little bit more confidence about entering to get at the wild bird seed I place in that little tin at the other end there

 

I also cover the trap up. Saves rain ruining the bait over night and helps protect what ever gets in there till I arrive. I say that because it's not always rats these sensitive little units can catch for ye!

 

 

Bang On Target

 

 

 

But Shit Can Happen!

 

 

 

For the record; Of course the little Dunnocks there were released unharmed. In fact, as it was dark when I found them, I popped them into my shed, with a sack over the trap, and released them at dawn when they could see where they were going

[OldTrapCollector 377]

Dave,

 

I have a few of those Killgerm Boddis rat cages, brand new, unused, that I am open to serious offers for. PM if you're interested.

 

OTC

[snareman 3]

I'm going to buy a couple of rat traps - the only one I've used before was a Monarch (I think) it was hanging up in the shed when I was a kid.

Anyway back to the future,or present at least.I've seen a few different ones on the net,can anyone please advise me on which one is best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cheers

 

Dave

why don,t you just get a few victor rat traps , and adjust them they kill as good as any , you will get 20 for the price of one cage trap , and if you lose one its only a pound , they are also excellent for weasels and stoats .