How much to dispatch a Skunk
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We have a ton of them here. Nothing gets unnoticed for very long. Most things are gone by mid morning.
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My outdoor cats were fed twice a day and any food that they didn’t eat within five minutes went straight back into the big food can. If food was left out we’d get opossums and raccoons but luckily no skunks.
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I live fairly close to open fields so I take the body in a trash bag and drop it next to the road into the open field. The wild life will take care of everything by next morning.
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I had the perfect shot before me, about 15 yards. It was my DreamTac .177 (that was 2 years ago, pretty sure about it). Not anything special about it.
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We just started to put their food and water on a table. I watched a skunk try for an hour to climb up the legs. They get fed and I'm off doing my things.
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The last one I shot was a few years ago, Benjamin 392 .22 pumped up to 10 fpe at 14 yards with a polymag in the bore. Shot between the eye and ear, fell over stone dead. Skunks will spray regardless of where you shoot them in my experience.
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I just got this guy last night with my
Notos .22 using JSB 13.43 @783 fps / 18 ft lbs
Walked about a foot or 2 and just stopped. Only 15 yards away and no spray. Some pics and short video that my trailcam caught of the skunk creeping around on the link below
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Notos .22 using JSB 13.43 @783 fps / 18 ft lbs
Walked about a foot or 2 and just stopped. Only 15 yards away and no spray. Some pics and short video that my trailcam caught of the skunk creeping around on the link below
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Another one today. 28 yards to the Pecan Tree. Sub-12 Revere in .177 shooting JSB 10gr Knockout MK2. Yes! Slugs out of a Sub-12! It shoots them very accurately. Hit just behind the shoulder, it ran like a banshee after jumping down the tree, and up a bush 3 yards away, and onto the workshop...
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Always a small caliber with a Heart / lung shot ... typically they ball up and die seldom spraying,
Hit em in the head, never had one Not spray .. dear lord what a stench !!!
Hit em in the head, never had one Not spray .. dear lord what a stench !!!
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Head shooting has a high probability of spraying. Heart/lungs is where you want to send it.
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How well would a .177 with beasts or monsters work at 800 fps at the muzzle and skunk at 23 yards? A skunk keeps trying to empty my coon feeder but I'm too chicken to shoot it due to the fears of a smelly problem. It would only be 10' away from a building. Bad shots happens and even with a good one it may run off or spray. I could also hit it with a 60 fpe .25 but that may get the skunk more upset!
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You can neutralize the oils, if it sprays, with a combination of peroxide, baking soda and dish soap. The ratios needed are on the internet.
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Regarding skunks i would say bring a 500 nitro express and shoot off its entire back part, but that's probably just as messy and smelly.
Glad we do not have those over here in old countries
Glad we do not have those over here in old countries
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lol I couldn’t help laughing a bit at the end where they plug the skunk again after it just sprayed everything it had. I had a skunk in the yard a couple of nights ago, left it alone after watching some of those Leshy videos on YouTube. I am a bit worried about my pup but thankfully I haven’t seen the skunk again yet.
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Skunks get along in suburban environments pretty well. They even get along with most dogs. I'm not sure I've ever had much problem with them around the house. They are smart critters. They eat scorpions and grubs. A fairly beneficial critter to have around.
I've been sprayed and the dogs have been sprayed almost every spring fishing. Yeah it stinks. As long as no one gets it in their eyes it's really no big deal. It smells like black coffee and bacon. It stops bothering you fast. It stops bothering everyone else in about 3 days.
Pumice soap works dandy. It shortens the stink time. The dog gets lathered up with pumice soap and baking soda. As long as you strip off any clothing wet with the stuff it won't spread around. As long as the dog dosent jump up in the front seat of your new truck and wallow around its just another day in the field.
I've live trapped a bunch of them. You just cover the trap with a tarp. I release them rather than kill them. Never had more than a little stink. I do my best not to stress the animal too much. It's no big deal to trap and remove one. A heck of a lot better than trying to shoot one with a pellet rifle. It stinks a lot less too.
I've been sprayed and the dogs have been sprayed almost every spring fishing. Yeah it stinks. As long as no one gets it in their eyes it's really no big deal. It smells like black coffee and bacon. It stops bothering you fast. It stops bothering everyone else in about 3 days.
Pumice soap works dandy. It shortens the stink time. The dog gets lathered up with pumice soap and baking soda. As long as you strip off any clothing wet with the stuff it won't spread around. As long as the dog dosent jump up in the front seat of your new truck and wallow around its just another day in the field.
I've live trapped a bunch of them. You just cover the trap with a tarp. I release them rather than kill them. Never had more than a little stink. I do my best not to stress the animal too much. It's no big deal to trap and remove one. A heck of a lot better than trying to shoot one with a pellet rifle. It stinks a lot less too.
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Plenty!!! It’s best with 177 because it would penetrate both lungs and pass right through without causing major trauma to the skunk which would cause it to immediately spray. I posted a video long ago with the skunk looking around wondering what’s going on after being shot.
With that said I would still leave them unless they cause damage. Having skunks eating the bait may attract coons, best trap for coons are the hand cuff traps which the skunks can’t get to the bait anyways.
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