mousetrap

[jim/wa]

i just got the percussion mousetrap from dixie gun works cant figure it out anyone have oneand let me know how it works

 

[Pittsburghunter]

No personal experiece but from what I have read it uses like a 10g charge of wadded paper and when the trip is sprung it is enough to kill the mouse. It looks like the mouse will nudge the bar up from the pics I have seen.

 

[BS]

i just got the percussion mousetrap from dixie gun works cant figure it out anyone have oneand let me know how it works

Mine is an Automatic

 

[Rebel]

Hey, i made one of those when we lived on the farm. :grin:

 

[cliff mccann]

Be careful with that. You'll shoot yourself in the foot! :hmm:

 

[Norskie]

Please, somebody post a picture of this percussion mousetrp. I gotta see this. Man, you'd know when it went off in the middle of the night, I bet my wife would levitate right out of bed!

 

[soggy]

:hmm: :hmm: I wonder if they come in "flint" as well as "percussion?" :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
Soggy

 

[rebel727]

Please, somebody post a picture of this percussion mousetrp. I gotta see this. Man, you'd know when it went off in the middle of the night, I bet my wife would levitate right out of bed!

Here ya go.

 

[musketman]

Please, somebody post a picture of this percussion mousetrp. I gotta see this. Man, you'd know when it went off in the middle of the night, I bet my wife would levitate right out of bed!

Here ya go.

Mouse trap my Aunt Lucy :rotf: , that is an anti-theft devise, it was given a "mouse trap" name to get around the litigations of being a deadly booby-trap devise...

Here is it's grand-daddy... (c. 1880)

And it's great grand-daddy... (Grave Robber Trap Gun circa late 1700's - early 1800's)

 

[LittleMoe430]

So...how does it work? How do you set it? I'm stumped...

 

This is a joke. Right?

 

[rebel727]

Dixie gunworks sells them advertised as mousetraps. The pic came off their website. No joke.

 

[Zonie]

I've studied the picture for some time.

I can see absolutly nothing that would keep the hammer cocked or serve to release it by mouse power or even with a big hammer.
The thing sticking out the left side looks like it could do something with the little pointed part at the top but still, there is no connection between them and the hammer.

Perhaps it should have been labeled "Rat Trap", the "Rat" being the person selling it and the "Trap" is what your money went into. :cursing:

As Mooskeetman pointed out, there were Trap Guns which were once sold to protect property.
These Trap Guns lost their popularity when the US Courts decided that anyone setting one of them, for any reason, would be held for first degree murder if anyone was killed by the device for any reason including trespassing. :shocked2: :shocked2:

 

First the hammer is cocked, and the pin put thru to safe it, then bait is put on the flat of th long lever, and raised slightly. Then the smallpiece at the very top is turned over to hold the lever up. There is another detent in that lever that you fit the small triangular wedge into and position between it and the trigger. When this is set you arm the trap by carefully pulling the pin. I forgot, before you do this you load with 5 grains of powder or just use the primer as power. and a bb. Mouse eats bait, upsets the latch. and boom. Bill

 

[David454]

I wouldnt even want to know what my wife would do if that went off in the middle of the night.
:rotf:
Be sure and set it under your bed. :rotf:

 

[Pittsburghunter]

When set if the "mouse" raises the bar just a touch it goes off. It is pretty simple. And a bit dangerous for non mouses as well :grin:

 

[Dances With Coyotes]

Sounds like a good way to set your house on fire,me personally I like a double barrel shotgun set up with both hammers cocked back ,,with fishing line on hammers,,,,shotgun goes off,presto no more mouse :blah: ,of course I must have a termite problem because now I've got huge holes in my wall now..... :rotf: :youcrazy: -----------I'd rather fight than wind up as a scalp on some man's lodge pole.

 

[Slake]

While spending too many very rainy days and nights in the Adirondacks at our hunting camp I found that our platic kitchen garbage can makes a great mouse trap. I discovered it accidently by having a plastic garbage bag in it with a hole in the corner. The mouse dropped out of the bag through the hole in the corner and couldn't get enough traction to climb the sides. I removed the bag inserted a piece of fresh bread in the bottom and had mice dropping in all night. It's amazing how many will drop in there. I also noticed that some of them aren't very nice to thier fellows captives