Help! A Nightly Visitor......Skunk......

[unionwirewoman]

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Kinda figured....but even shooting does here we usually go for the head....most likely to drop them on the spot , and most likely to not inflict any serious damage if you miss .

 

[gckiddhouse]

You need Nugget!!

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[unionwirewoman]

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If only all of us had GUARD CHICKENS !

 

[cw]

ya thats where we try to take em but our hunters ed class teaches you to take the brood side shot

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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That's just the way I learned. I remember it being recommended in a book by Bob Gilsvik, "The Complete Book of Trapping", that somebody gave me when I was in jr high.

I've shot five or six skunks in 25 years and had just one spray. Looking around the web to see what the common knowledge is, I found some recommendations to shoot through the heart, some that said sever the spinal cord with a shot and then shoot through the head, and a few that said just shoot through the head... Although several did caution that shooting in the head would probably make them spray.

It seems people have pretty good success with the acetone and syringe, I remember that being recommended in Gilsvik's book also. One post I ran across on the web was from a fellow that worked in pest management. He figured he had dispatched 1500 skunks with a syringe and that he only had three of them spray.

 

[antiquebuff]

Well, the Critter Getter set the traps and Friday nite we watched as the Skunk came and played with the trap until he tripped the door. An opossum joined him!
Then tonite we were out until dark and pulled in the driveway and the truck lights hit right on him under the bird feeder eating seeds. We watched a few minutes and he ventured over to the trap and went in.....he is so big that his tail was left hanging out! After a while though he moved on up and his tail went on in....now if the Critter Getter comes for him in the morning and takes him without spraying we will be ok. I feel bad about it because he is so pretty and huge!

I just wonder if there is a whole family around and we have to go thru this again and again.....it could get very expensive!!
Thanks for all the help everyone has given me on this problem!!

 

[unionwirewoman]

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That's just the way I learned. I remember it being recommended in a book by Bob Gilsvik, "The Complete Book of Trapping", that somebody gave me when I was in jr high.

I've shot five or six skunks in 25 years and had just one spray. Looking around the web to see what the common knowledge is, I found some recommendations to shoot through the heart, some that said sever the spinal cord with a shot and then shoot through the head, and a few that said just shoot through the head... Although several did caution that shooting in the head would probably make them spray.

It seems people have pretty good success with the acetone and syringe, I remember that being recommended in Gilsvik's book also. One post I ran across on the web was from a fellow that worked in pest management. He figured he had dispatched 1500 skunks with a syringe and that he only had three of them spray.

Not to sound rude...but you can read all of the books you want and never know how something is done until you do it over and over again . As it was mentioned ....where there is one skunk , expect at least 5 more . So , living in the country , like I have , you tend to shoot 1 one day...and find another in it's place a couple of days later . A shot to the head is the only way I recommend , unless you want to get sprayed .

 

[cw]

alright dont shoot it in the head
get 15 family sized cans of tomato juice, and shoot it in the a$$, spinal cord or kill zone like heart and lungs, then you will see what the tomato juice is for.


you can pick it up by its tail and it wont spray either.

whatcha gonna do with it? here in ky we eat em that is if we can get a clean head shot (also dont like all that shotgun shot in the meat) try to use 22-250 to drop em like ya smacked in the head with a hammer. try to find a place to sell its pelt (hide for all those book readers) they used to fetch a a few $$s

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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I hear where you're coming from, but we pick up things from many sources. As a 13 year old kid I had no reason to doubt a book written by an expert trapper. For that reason I've never tried a head shot nor had I ever heard anybody recommend it until now. For the handful of times I have shot a skunk, a shot to the chest worked four out of five times.

 

[cw]

what is a 13 yr old kid doin up at this hr