Which Mousetrap?

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Re: Which Mousetrap?

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Fridaychimp wrote:Apparently at nats fossil ridge was running with animal traps that weren't specifically meant for mice, but were still within the size specs, and the ES let them run without construction violations. Don't think they medaled, but from what I've heard they were insanely fast. This is all secondhand though, so I'm not sure how accurate it is.
The team presented the original packaging and it was marketed as a mouse trap.
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bernard wrote:
Fridaychimp wrote:Apparently at nats fossil ridge was running with animal traps that weren't specifically meant for mice, but were still within the size specs, and the ES let them run without construction violations. Don't think they medaled, but from what I've heard they were insanely fast. This is all secondhand though, so I'm not sure how accurate it is.
The team presented the original packaging and it was marketed as a mouse trap.
Yah, it said mousetrap on the packaging and we looked it up to make sure it was commercially available. Oh, just a quick note, they did medal in this event.
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Re: Which Mousetrap?

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bearasauras wrote:
bernard wrote:
Fridaychimp wrote:Apparently at nats fossil ridge was running with animal traps that weren't specifically meant for mice, but were still within the size specs, and the ES let them run without construction violations. Don't think they medaled, but from what I've heard they were insanely fast. This is all secondhand though, so I'm not sure how accurate it is.
The team presented the original packaging and it was marketed as a mouse trap.
Yah, it said mousetrap on the packaging and we looked it up to make sure it was commercially available. Oh, just a quick note, they did medal in this event.
Any chance you can drop the brand name?
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Fridaychimp wrote:
bearasauras wrote:
bernard wrote: The team presented the original packaging and it was marketed as a mouse trap.
Yah, it said mousetrap on the packaging and we looked it up to make sure it was commercially available. Oh, just a quick note, they did medal in this event.
Any chance you can drop the brand name?
Knowing the brand may satisfy your curiosity but will not be helpful for the event.
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bernard wrote:
Fridaychimp wrote:
bearasauras wrote:
Yah, it said mousetrap on the packaging and we looked it up to make sure it was commercially available. Oh, just a quick note, they did medal in this event.
Any chance you can drop the brand name?
Knowing the brand may satisfy your curiosity but will not be helpful for the event.
Wouldn't it help to have more powerful mousetraps, at least speed wise?
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Re: Which Mousetrap?

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You're absolutely right, but you can almost be certain that it'll also incur a construction violation next year ;)
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Fridaychimp wrote:
bernard wrote:
Fridaychimp wrote: Any chance you can drop the brand name?
Knowing the brand may satisfy your curiosity but will not be helpful for the event.
Wouldn't it help to have more powerful mousetraps, at least speed wise?
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