Ok, now I'm ready for skunk hunting

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".

Get him.

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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!

Already killed 2 this year, a .410 with #4 shot will get the job done right.
Good luck.

Trap him!

If you kill one near camp, you'll smell it regardless of wind direction.

skunk makes great coyote bait , if you trap or hunt coyotes

I'll use him for coyote bait, if the dang skunk will show up again. That sneaky devil....

I caught 4 or 5 in about 3 weeks using a dukes dog proof caught them on marsh mellows and cat food.

Havent had a skunk problem lately, happy with that too.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Shoot him in the spine and he won't spray.