First, let me say that my favorite method for ridding the yards of the furry beasties is to watch for active tunneling and pop them out of the ground with a pickaxe. I learned this technique from an old time Tennessean neighbor, who is very successful with it. While it works great in the early spring when the grass is short, not so much in the hot summer when the grass is grown longer, as the tunneling is difficult to see. NOW, I have tried other moles traps over the past 7 years, and have had NO LUCK with any of them ... even those which claim to be the best, were given to my neighbor as they just didn't trap my moles. I came across this trap on the Victor website, read the Amazon reviews about it, and purchased 2 of them ... I figured it couldn't be any worse than the previous traps. Of the Amazon reviews I found Geoffrey Klos' review information and one other which included a video of setting the trap to be very informative. To this point, I had been trying to get one particular mole for a couple of months. After receiving the traps, I read the instructions on the box, compared them to the Amazon reviewers, and did the following: gently pressed down a portion of a long "highway" tunnel with my foot; dug out a section of the flattened tunnel the width of the trap with a garden trowel, cut 2 "leg channels" with a flat-bladed ice chipper to a depth that the set "trigger pan" would sit flat/level with the surrounding ground, set the trap, placed it into the tunnel, and gently backfilled the dug out portion under the trap and covered it with magnolia leaves (not sure why). Somewhere I read that if the trap didn't catch a mole within 48 hours, move it, as the tunnel has been abandoned by the mole. As I knew this mole was still active in the immediate area, I decided to just leave it and see what happened. 72 hours after setting the trap, my wife told me that the trap levers were laying more flat than upright, and that the locking bar was no longer locked. YEP! We had the mole!!! Woo-hoo! Not yet deceased, but under our control! This is the best trap I have used, and there are 2 more furry ones in my sights at this writing. Recommended highly! Good hunting!