Victor M9015 Easy-to-Set Deadset Mole Trap and Killer

I bought two last year for my mole problem and used them for weeks with no results. I ended up having to sit outside with a spade waiting for the ground to move like a complete weirdo. I’m sure my neighbors thought I had lost my mind. But this had become a true Caddyshack moment between me and this mole. It was personal. Totally destroyed my entire front lawn and my garden beds. Ended up getting it with my shovel. This year another mole showed up and in five days almost completely ruined all of my annuals and started in on my lawn again. I bought two more traps. I identified where they were coming out from underneath the porch and their main tunnels that fed the secondary tunnels. About two hours after setting all four traps, one had tripped and my cat was standing over it staring intently. I could hear the spring twitching. I dug it up with a shovel and there it was, clinging to life. These things are solid pieces of equipment, well designed. Don’t get cheap knock offs, you get what you pay for. It comes down to this; if you only have a couple traps, you better know where they are coming from otherwise they will just make more tunnels and go around them. I hate to sound like a salesman, but you need to have multiple traps to catch the moles in the act. They work too quickly for single or few traps. But if you compare this to the hundreds of dollars I spent on annuals this year, and the hundreds of dollars it took me to repair my lawn last year, these traps are the best money I’ve ever spent. Also, make sure to set them deep enough or the moles just sneak out under them. These traps work perfectly if you know what you’re doing but you have to find the tunnels they use.

This is the first product that has inspired me to write a review. This trap is the BIGGEST piece of crap. Soon as I unboxed it, it didn’t work. I took it into my garage and took it apart and it has a simple design that was easy to see how it was supposed to work. Put it back together. Went right outside my garage to test it. It worked. Walked back to the mole tunnels tried to set it and it wouldn’t latch again. The trap is cheap and uses materials. My guess is probably 1 out of 5 of them probably work but there is no tolerance or QC on their product. Don’t buy it or there’s a 1-5 chance you will end up pissed off shattering this junk on a tree like me.

If you have any rocks in your ground maybe consider going with Victor’s metal version. One spike snapped off on my first attempt of placing it in the ground. The foot pegs makes it easier to set and it’s effectiveness is yet to be seen…still waiting.

Maybe it's the scorching hot weather we've been having, or maybe my gophers are too smart to fall for this, or maybe I'm just impatient. But I've had this trap out for a couple of weeks now with no luck. I try to use it where the latest tunneling activity is, and I know I'm setting it right, but it seems like every time I set it, the gophers just start tunneling elsewhere. What was that movie with Bill Murray?That said, the mechanics of this trap are solid and it should eventually work.If I had one suggestion for the manufacturer it would be to make it wider, so it would better straddle the tunnels and help avoid getting the steel legs into the tunnels when setting it.The YouTube videos show this trap works, but I'm deducting a star because so far it hasn't worked for me.

These Victor plastic mole traps are much easier to set than the other other Victor all-metal mole traps. The spring on those traps is so tightly coiled that I couldn't lift it far enough to set the latch. The plastic ones are a breeze to set and work just as well as the all-metal ones. Highly recommended!

This mole trap is lightweight and very easy to set. That is where the positives end. The first time I used the trap it activated by failed to kill the mole. The second time I used the trap one of the plastic legs broke off, however the trap still functioned. When the trap activated the second time it failed to get the mole. When I dug the tunnel out I discovered the spikes were not long enough to reach the tunnel depth. While it may work for some people, it was useless to me.

I've used four different types of mole "traps" and this is the best so far. The scissors type doesn't work in clay soil, the snare type seems to be made for a different variety of mole, plus they require digging holes worse than the moles. The newer all metal Victor Plunge traps are made of flimsy metal and weak springs that don't penetrate the mole. I have an older more robust Victor all metal plunger trap that does work if you set everything perfectly. I had to polish the trigger mechanism on these mostly plastic traps to get them to spring reliably. Initially moles would burrow right under the trigger to no effect. These are much easier to set. That's not to say one does not have to use some finesse. When depressing the mole run one must accurately ascertain the actual tunnel, which is often offset from the raised earth. I also sharpened the tines to needle sharpness. The tines are flimsy and I can see how they might not last years.This season I have killed 10 moles in my 1/2 acre lawn. Currently am mole free but I check at least 3x a week. Once the lawn has a maze of mole runs it's hard to know where to set the traps. I now have five traps and saturate the runs every few feet as soon as possible. My son kids me about acting out scenes from Caddyshack.

Piece of junk. I had it for about three weeks and it broke. You pull the handle up to said it and then it went off and I pulled it up out of the ground and tried to pull the handle back up and it wouldn’t go. it was jammed. Do not buy very disappointed. And the time that I had it never killed one mole