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  • Drilled Sunflower Seeds

    It seems the best bait for voles is to tie sunflower seeds to the trap trigger, but poking a needle through the seeds tends to split them.

    Well, I can fix that:

    Sunflower seeds - drilled
    Sunflower seeds – drilled

    This is “shell drilling” of a kind I had not previously encountered:

    Sunflower seeds in shell - drilled
    Sunflower seeds in shell – drilled

    Those are #52 drill holes, 63-ish mils in diameter, and pass a standard sewing needle with ease.

    The traps have been baited and deployed amid a plague of voles and I await customer feedback …