Havahart® Large 1-Door Easy Set® Trap

When I first got the trap, the gate would not fall. There was no clearance between the gate and the side of the trap, and the gate would jam. I bent some of the wires on the side of the trap outward, and solved that problem. However, the trip plate is not very sensitive. It is also not stiff enough, and one side will push to the floor without tripping the trap. It is easy to set, but since it only works about half time, that's not much of an advantage.

Works well for opossums and cats, but raccoons have totally destroyed 2 different traps and escaped. My 40 year old trap is made much stronger and I have never had a raccoon escape. It is just very difficult for the wife to set.

Definitely is Easy Set. I had so much problem with my previous trap that I thought I better spring for a 2nd one that I hoped would work. Worked immediately. Put a trail of banana pieces into the trap (per suggestion from a Nature Conservancy guy) and caught my groundhog immediately. Only reason I didn't give 5 stars is because he was banging so vigorously at the trap opening that I was afraid he push out. Put a piece of rebar thru sides and that held the door closed nicely.

Changing my original Five Star December 8, 2018 review. The trap is easy to set. It easily releases the animal. It's effective at catching the animal. However, we've caught eight raccoons. Of the eight, three managed to escape, which defeats the purpose of catching them in the first place. The door locking mechanism simply isn't strong enough. An "escape rate" of 37% is too high. Not sure I'd recommend this trap.

The problem I encountered was a large raccoon entered the trap ate the bait and then pushed the door open and escaped, the latch is not proper to hold against a large raccoon pushing against it and escaping.I bought another of your traps[didn't get model #]not easy to set but caught the raccoon the first nite and no problem holding the animal.Any suggestions on how to fix the holding latch on 1085.

I use the smaller 2-door traps and they work awesome in catching squirrels and rats. However, the past two weeks I have used this larger model in order to attempt to catch something under my house that is too big for the smaller traps. I need some advice because the sensitivity knob cannot be set sensitive enough and the animal is merely grabbing the food despite it being placed at the back of the trap per the instructions without setting off the trap. It is either bypassing the trip mechanism altogether, or perhaps it is not heavy enough to trip the trap while stepping on it? I have even placed obstacles in the trap to force it to have to cross onto the trip plate, but to no avail yet. The problem seems to be with the lack of sensitivity with this particular trap. Can anyone offer me some guidance on this? I have adjusted the sensitivity screw knob many different ways, but nothing is working and the critter always gets away with the bait. Thank you.

The new easy set trap ls so much better to use than the older model. I wasn't intending to " get rid " of animals with it. I intended using it to catch a few cats so they can be brought to homes. Now anyone want to buy my other trap ? It's clean and new. I never used it. I will be keeping model 1085. It's easier to set.

The trap work well as far as catching the large racoon. The problem is that it couldn’t hold it. The racoon easily overpowered the back lash and got out after eating the bate. It did this twice. So I don’t plan to use it again until I can custom modify the locking mechanism into something more stury that doesn’t allow a racoon to back out of it.

Extremely easy to set the trap and just as easy to release the animal. Very quickly snagged two raccoons and one cat. Place the bait in the very back of the trap. My initial baiting I had the bait past the trip plate, but close enough to the trip plate that the raccoon was able to secure the bait without triggering the trap. The trap is well made and designed such that the animal cannot reach your hand when you're carrying a caged animal. I have no reservations in recommending this trap for the suggested animals.

This is the only trap you should ever use! We just recently bought this one so we had our own trap. We have enough trouble animals show up in our yard, it was just time to get our own. Before this we rented the same model of this trap that didn't have the easy set function. It worked great! We caught many animals including Opossum, Raccoon, and Skunks. Once we got two skunks at once! This easy set trap is definitely SO MUCH EASIER to use. Just one lever, and it's an awesome feature when you have to release the animal. The traps are made sturdy and will last for a good long time. I can't speak to longevity of this particular model, but the rental we used they had for many years and it showed very little wear after serving so many customers. Built tough to last. Highly recommended!