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Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/21/17 08:34 PM
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We have a skunk that's stinking up the place fairly regularly. I've seen him a couple of times, but passed on shooting him. But, last night he (or she) really smelled up the place. So bad that it got me out of bed at 3 am. I got the spotlight and went out front . It looked like a wildlife ad, with 4 or more coons at the corn feeder and a bunch of deer eating grass or bedded down. And there was the skunk. A big one. Boone and Crockett sized skunk. But I had left the rifle in the safe. Dang. And I couldn't be sure of wind direction, and there's no way I'll ever shoot a skunk upwind of the house AGAIN. Soooooo, today I hung surveyors tape from a bunch of low hanging tree limbs, and I got the 223 out. To quote old cowboy movies. "This town ain't big enough for the two of us".
Not my monkeys, not my circus...
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/21/17 08:58 PM
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/21/17 09:11 PM
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Cast I have a short attention spa
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/21/17 10:07 PM
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Palehorse
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/21/17 10:53 PM
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Good luck!
I can come home from my hunts, cut up, ankles sprained, wrecked back, etc., and my wife will take me in. She doesn't like it when I get hurt, but she will take me in and care for me if needed.
If I get sprayed by a skunk, I can't come home...
Distance is your friend!
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/22/17 12:57 AM
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Old Rabbit
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Already killed 2 this year, a .410 with #4 shot will get the job done right. Good luck.
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/22/17 06:12 AM
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/22/17 04:47 PM
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If you kill one near camp, you'll smell it regardless of wind direction.
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/23/17 01:48 AM
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East texas deer hunter
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skunk makes great coyote bait , if you trap or hunt coyotes
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/23/17 03:13 AM
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I'll use him for coyote bait, if the dang skunk will show up again. That sneaky devil....
Not my monkeys, not my circus...
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/23/17 04:10 AM
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I caught 4 or 5 in about 3 weeks using a dukes dog proof caught them on marsh mellows and cat food.
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/23/17 02:58 PM
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Havent had a skunk problem lately, happy with that too.
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/23/17 03:14 PM
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My nose hurts just thinking about it!
A few years ago we had a rat terrier that never learned to leave a skunk alone. And she was a spoiled rotten lap dog....which can be a bad combination...
Cheers, Vern1 Texans since The Old 300 in 1824 NRA Lifetime Member
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/23/17 03:35 PM
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I had a sheperd cross that could kill skunks and not get real stinked up! That dog killed all varmints it could catch for years. RIP Cassie.
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/23/17 06:31 PM
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I bought a house in Fredericksburg years ago and in the first year there I caught 13 skunks in live traps. I kept a couple of big cans of tomato juice. I'd shoot them, then douse the area with juice and the smell quickly was gone.
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/24/17 05:10 PM
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I have found if you kill them with a shotgun sometimes you can get the skunk on a shovel and into a plastic bag quick enough to keep the odor down.
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Re: Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting
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02/26/17 11:15 PM
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Shoot him in the spine and he won't spray.
Yes! A Weatherby does kill them deader.
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