Try frying some bacon-limpy, then sow it to the trigger of your trap with thread. It will stiffen up and get brittle with time. Then replace it with the soft bacon again. I sometime add a smidge of PB on top.
Well, Me and Henry Ford would like a 1 inch 2.5x10 by 42. duplex, capped. That holds zero with very good glass and eye relief. No rainbow mumbo jumbo or lighted fiddle faddle.