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.

Very easy to set…very much like the Victor traps of old but much easier to set..

The media could not be loaded. My house is situated right next to a quite popular local golf course in our town. The golf course is gorgeous and is maintained in pristine condition. The mowing, irrigation, and chemical spraying is a normal almost daily scene especially in the spring and summer months. Those months are also when some “unwanted pesky visitors called moles” migrates into our private yards. Had a couple of moles came and gone last summer with one of my dogs even caught one with her ninja paws 🐶. Try as I might, I couldn’t keep up with her and the score board remained 0-1 for quite some time as I tried my best to keep up. Then yesterday, after having exhausted every effort to catchthis one pesky a-la-matrix of a mole that destroyed almost half of my front yard, I finally caught this bad boy with this mole trap 👏👏👏. Honestly, I felt relieved that my ordeal is over, but also quite sad seeing this chunky monkey of a mole impaled and still very much alive when I unearthened the trap (I love nature and animals and though I went gungho with my efforts to catch this mole, it’s just not in me to kill something alive). One of my neighbors had to remind me of the damage it did to my property (and hers partially) and of the sleepless nights I’ve had (worrying if a piece of my front yard will still be there come morning time) in order to convince me to just let it live and let die it’s last few moments in a covered bucket before giving it a proper send off to the garbage bin. Now looking back at everything and every effort and energy I’ve invested in creating battle plans (Sprayed the whole yard with castor oil + dawn soap, castor granules, mole poison pellets, mole poison worms, smoke bomb, flooding the mole runway, dozens of juicy fruit gums, a mole exterminator service, and last but not least three different types of mole traps) to combat this one terrorist of a chunky monkey mole...I finally caught it with the help of this device. So, does it work? Hell yeah! It’s the only one that worked for me and the only one I’m going to use for any potential future mole problems. I know the above might seemed extreme and exaggerated, but it’s all true and this mole has tormented me for months as if it was all fun and games. In the end, I’m glad to tie the score with my dog 1-1 and to say goodbye and RIP to this chunky monkey mole 🙏

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.