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Mechanical Kill Trap with Tunnel Probe
GopherHawk GopherHawk Trapping Set (trap, wedge and probe) Review
★★★★★ 4.5/5
our editor rating how we score4/5 from 11,458 shoppers at Amazon — their number, not ours.
$38–$46
Typical price · One trap, reusable indefinitely; no consumable
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The probe is why this is the version to buy: finding the active tunnel is the step that decides whether trapping works, and guessing is how people conclude traps do not.
Our Verdict
The best-value entry on this shelf, and the extra tools are not accessories. Extension publications put trapping first for moles — NC State notes several trap designs will give good results if properly handled — and the phrase doing the work is 'properly handled'. A lawn accumulates abandoned runs, and a trap set on one catches nothing for weeks, which reads as a failed product rather than a failed placement. The probe locates the tunnel and the wedge opens the set point without collapsing it, so you are working from evidence instead of hope. Confirm the run is live first: press a section of ridge flat, mark it, and if it is pushed back up in a day or two, set there. No bait, no re-entry interval, no delayed hazard to a dog — which is the honest argument for a trap over bromethalin in a household with an animal that digs. Read the Washington note before ordering.
✅ Pros
- Includes the probe, which is the step most failed trapping attempts skip
- No poison — nothing for a pet or child to ingest, and no re-entry interval
- Reusable indefinitely; the cost is once
- Wedge opens the set point without collapsing the tunnel
- Trapping is the method extension publications list first
⚠️ Cons
- Illegal to USE in Washington under Initiative 713 — see the state note
- Set on an abandoned run it catches nothing, and the run looks identical
- Mechanical kill trap: a physical hazard that has to be sited deliberately
- One trap works one run at a time on an active network
- Prevents nothing — a new mole can recolonise the tunnels
Product type
Mechanical Kill Trap with Tunnel Probe
Active ingredient
None — a wedge-set steel trap with a probe tool
Price range
$38–$46
Coverage
One trap, reusable indefinitely; no consumable
Best for
Trapping moles properly, including finding the active tunnel first
our editor rating
4.5 out of 5
Where our facts come from
Correctly carries no EPA registration
Adjuvants, dyes, devices and minimum-risk products are not registered pesticides, so an empty registration number here is right rather than missing.
What we found when we read it
A mechanical trap carries no EPA registration number, correctly. FIFRA regulates such items as DEVICES rather than as pesticides: a device may need an EPA establishment number for the facility that makes it, but it is not registered and has no approved label, because there is no chemistry for EPA to evaluate. That is also why a trap's effectiveness claims are not EPA-reviewed the way a pesticide's are.
Where this page and the container disagree, the container wins — the label is the legal authority on rates and restrictions. How to read one yourself.
Where This Product Matters
Matched against each state's actual disease, weed and pest pressure.
Iowa
Iowa hub →Moles along field edges
Oregon
Oregon hub →Moles (heavy in soft, damp valley soil)
Washington
Washington hub →⚖️ Do not buy this to use here. WSU Extension records that Initiative 713, effective December 7, 2000, bans the USE of any trap other than common rat and mouse traps that holds, pierces, grasps or pinches a body part (RCW 77.15.194). Buying one is legal; using it to capture an animal is not.
Common questions
Common Questions
How much does GopherHawk GopherHawk Trapping Set (trap, wedge and probe) cost?
GopherHawk GopherHawk Trapping Set (trap, wedge and probe) typically runs $38–$46, covering One trap, reusable indefinitely; no consumable.
What does GopherHawk GopherHawk Trapping Set (trap, wedge and probe) treat?
GopherHawk GopherHawk Trapping Set (trap, wedge and probe) targets Moles.
What is the active ingredient in GopherHawk GopherHawk Trapping Set (trap, wedge and probe)?
None — a wedge-set steel trap with a probe tool.
What is the biggest downside of GopherHawk GopherHawk Trapping Set (trap, wedge and probe)?
Illegal to USE in Washington under Initiative 713 — see the state note
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