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My wife informed me that there was a large skunk on the porch, eating the cat's food tonight. I grabbed the Ithaca Model 49 .22 mag and went out to chase it off. I talked to it from a safe distance and it paid no attention to me. I banged on the porch railing and it looked around and went back to eating. Finally I knocked some tin around and it looked up, walked off the porch and started away, slowly, then turned around and came back at me. So in self-defense I shot it.
The bad news is, it was about 10 feet from the house.
I scooped it into a bucket with a shovel and carried the bucket on the end of the shovel. When I came in my wife made me take off all my clothes and toss them in the laundry room.
The kitchen and that end of the house are pretty ripe. I hope we have a good south wind tonight 'cuz the yard will make your eyes water right now.
You know .. in 45 years of shooting skunks I have yet to hit them just right so that they don't leak!
I shot a skunk once that was eating out of my Black Labs dog food bowl. The dog was raising all kinds of hell but was keeping her distance. Once I came out with a light and my .22 and shot the skunk the Lab was totally on the attack. However, that skunk got the best of us, I shot and hit the skunk just behind the head and when hit she turned a 180 degree turn while spraying before falling over dead. This was at least 150 feet from the house, but man that odor came out of the ground every time it rained for at least 4-5 months.
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Evil they are, but they don`t all stink. Gotta tell this..true story Back i would say in i believe in 1963 i was heading home after a short hunt after school,usually had an hour to try to bag a partridge. Anyway i was walking out of the woods on a path
to the field heading for home.Dusk is approaching. Then see Mr Skunk slowly trotting down the path headed for me. I stop...maybe he is 25 yds away...he keeps coming, coming.. i raise my Brother`s Browning Sweet 16 ( 16 Gauge ) KABOOM at maybe 20 feet....Mr Skunk was vaporized and just plain gone...Guys i swear he was so much gone, I NEVER SMELLED
A DAM THING! I remember that indeed, how the heck he didn`t smell??
I was coming out of the mountains one night, leading a group of riders. It was dark with no moon but the mare picked her way down the mountain with ease. At one point where the trail had a steep drop-off on the right side the mare stopped and refused to go further.
I looked in the darkness and could just make out "something" on the trail. So pulled my FA 454 and torched off a round at it. The flash blinded me but I cut another loose in the same direction by "feel"
Then I could smell 'em.
Seems a whole family of skunks was on the trail. One of my slugs came close enough to create shrapnel from the rocks and shredded a bunch of them critters.
We had a devil of a time getting the horses past there.
I always thought that it smells like burnt eraser.
Need to shot them through the lungs, it lets the air out of them, anywhere else and they tense up, and thats not good.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error.
Amazing what nature will prepare even little creatures with for defense. Porcupines come
to mind as having rather decent tools as well. I read somewhere that Wolverines stink
something fierce too. I don't need to tall anyone that that would not be their first line
of defense. I recall a red squirrel razing me from my hunting blind a few years ago but we
won't get into that.
Regards,
Troy
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Head shot, from the porch straight down, .22Mag. Instant stop, instant stink.
OK Rusty, I won't ask how you know; but what is the right mixture of peroxide and boric acid?
Almost any CNS/heart hit or non lethal hit will get a skunk to spray.
Only thing I've EVER found to work on skunks that minimizes leakage is a .22 SOLID (no hp) standard velocity or subsonic double-lung shot.
If you hit it when its tail is DOWN, you have a good chance of just starteling it and having it run off to bleed out/die of pulmunary edema.
That's what we use to do when we trapped them in box traps.
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
mescalero1 wrote:Through the lungs?
On a broadside shot, where is that zone?
'bout where it is on a deer proportionally.
try 2" back from the front shoulder, center mass.
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
J Miller wrote:Or ~ you coulda let 'em eat the pet food and be on his way. Some things are better left alone me thinks.
Joe
Ode to a Skunk
by Lauren M.
You,
are a stinky creature
you are flattened
on the pavement
dead, lifeless
no longer stinkable.
No longer a life
like your friends, but
although you are
dead your species
will still thrive,
your children will still
stink-on.
So, even though
you will never see
the light of day,
and though your
guts are somewhere
on the side of the
road, you will always
be known as
America's little
stinker.
#1 rule when dealing with skunks, keep the breeze at your BACK.
#2 rule is there is no 100% sure method of shooting that won't cause a stink.
#3 rule= Patience
My preferred way is to live trap and then drown in a tub, pond, irrigation ditch, etc. No stink
Next is live trap carry trap to remote spot release skunk and blow butt end of skunk to smithereens with shotgun, it will still stink but smell will be localized to ground and skunk remains instead of atomized in the air.
Herd skunk to remote spot and use shotgun.
I used to keep a few Gamecocks, one morning when I was feeding a skunk had got into a pen with a young rooster, both were still alive and the battle was still in progress so I set down on my feed bucket and watched the show, it took about 20 minutes but the rooster ended up killing the skunk, weirdest part was no stink.
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J Miller wrote:Or ~ you coulda let 'em eat the pet food and be on his way. Some things are better left alone me thinks.
Joe
Tried that. Next night, Mr skunk brought the whole extended family and friends over for dinner.
Later, mr & mrs opossum and kids arrived.
When the raccoon family showed up later for chow, that was the last straw! Mama raccoon chased me off the porch!
Matter of fact, I don't leave any food outside anymore; after a bear visited our house at Lake Tahoe, sniffing my BBQ for some fish snacks! I don't leave pet food out at night anymore.
When I lived in Idaho a friend there who was a trapper told me the only way to prevent a skunk from spraying was to shoot the spine thus preventing the brain from sending messages south. He was a well respected native Idahoan trapper so I believed him.
Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!
Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose!
Roll up yer window and hold yer nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!
Yeah you got yer dead cat and you got yer dead dog
On a moonlight night you got yer dead toad frog
Got yer dead rabbit and yer dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they're gonna make you swoon!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!
C'mon stink!
You got it!
It's dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle!
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven!
All over the road, technicolor man!
Oh, you got pollution
It's dead, it's in the middle
And it's stinkin' to high, high Heaven!
I love this topic. One of my favorite memories of being a kid in Indiana was being trusted to chase skunks off with a High Standard model 101 and 22 shot cartridges. The shot cartridges that were crimped on the end to a point. This effectively made the pistol a single shot. I probably never put one pellet in any of those skunks but it was a night time adventure I will never forget. I especially remember those tails high in the air running away in to the brush. Wow, what fun. Looking back I know I was blessed to have a dad that let me be a boy.
I had issues with skunks last spring. I think someone on here recommended a remedy for de-skunkifying an area that I found worked. A mixture of hot water, dish detergent, and beer. Mix it all up and pour it over where the little bugger sprayed. Worked for me last year when a trapped skunk took a squirt at me and I let my temper get the better of me. Not only did I darn near ruin the new trap with 2 rounds of 12g from 10 yards, but I was only twice that distance from the house.
Skunks are rampant in my area. We have a large black and white cat. The other night my wife (ole possum kisser) went out on the porch to pick him up and almost grabbed a skunk. Fortunately, it went one way and she the other. Had it sprayed it would have come right in the front door. Theres a big cat, as in mountain lion running the canyon behind me. Coons, possums, and bunnies, not to mention a few cats and dogs have been disappearing. The old cat doesn't bother the skunks. Smart cat.
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"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
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Many years ago, on a winter night atop a high ridge in western NC, in a wilderness camp, I awoke to find a skunk in my tent. I had a .38, but lacked the nerve to shoot it in such close quarters. I figured that even if it bit me I'd rather take rabies treatments than suffer the consequences of offing the bugger! Finally, I just spoke rather sternly to it for a minute or so and it wriggled out the hole it'd come in through.
While not exactly life-threatening, it stil ranks right up there with all the more harrowing events of my life.
I had a skunk "incident" last summer. I don't have A/C, so I keep my windows open at night and run a fan. This will cool the house off enough that I don't need to open the windows during the day until like 3:00 PM. One night, I smelled this "funny" smell, and then realized it was a skunk! It must have sprayed something in the alley behind the house. I jumped up and closed all the windows, but it was too late--the whole house was skunked up. The next day I was torn--do I open the windows and sweat my cojones off, or stay cool and breathe in the polecat EVERYWHERE? I guess I hate the heat more than the smell... it's only me here.
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I don't leave pet food out at night anymore.
