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<blockquote data-quote="deerwhacker444" data-source="post: 1436449" data-attributes="member: 9117"><p>When I was a kid trapping I ran a few sets (footholds) in the usually dry creek behind the house, thinking I might catch some coons. In the winter I used to shoot blackbirds or meadowlarks and use them as bait. On this one particular set, something kept stealing my bait without setting off the trap. I tried every conceivable way of hiding the bait and moving the set, but still the same. This went on for a week or so. I got fed up with it and decide to bait the set and place 2 traps instead of 1. Next morning I go to check it and I got em....! BIG skunk. He's go both front feet in one trap and both back feet in the other, and he is P'OD something terrible. I don't even have to get close and I can hear him growling and hissing. So me and my dog Poochie sneak up to what I feel is a safe distance. Using my first rifle, an Ithaca 49 single shot, I put a LR bullet right thru the lungs.</p><p></p><p>Skunk thrashed around a couple seconds and I swear he made eye contact, and on his last dying breath let loose with this yellow mist of stink. Well, the wind was WRONG....and blew it right at us. I knew as soon as he did it, I was in a bad spot. Me and Pooch tried to make a hasty retreat back up the hill, but it was too late. Although we didn't get a direct hit, the wind covered us in secondary mist. We stunk. Got home and had to throw away the clothes and hit the the Hydrogen Peroxide. You could still catch a whiff of skunk on us for quite a while.</p><p></p><p>Since then, I've always shot skunks with a shotgun. IMO, they don't seem to spray as often. Every once in a while one will, but a good dose of shot seems to render them lifeless pretty quick. Quicker than a bullet thru the lungs anyway. The lead doesn't tear up traps if you're a decent distance away. Don't know what you'd do with one in a box trap.</p><p></p><p>When I was trapping there were people who actually bought skunk scent. They would use it for all sorts of products. There were methods of killing a skunk so it wouldn't spray and then you could remove the skunk essence to sell. I never did it, but if I remember right, I read you could take a syringe on a pole filled with alcohol, and poke them quickly in the ribs with it and they wouldn't spray. I guess the alcohol would drown them almost instantly. Somebody actually used to sell a kit to do this, I remember seeing the drawing of how to use it. I never did it, didn't want to get that close.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deerwhacker444, post: 1436449, member: 9117"] When I was a kid trapping I ran a few sets (footholds) in the usually dry creek behind the house, thinking I might catch some coons. In the winter I used to shoot blackbirds or meadowlarks and use them as bait. On this one particular set, something kept stealing my bait without setting off the trap. I tried every conceivable way of hiding the bait and moving the set, but still the same. This went on for a week or so. I got fed up with it and decide to bait the set and place 2 traps instead of 1. Next morning I go to check it and I got em....! BIG skunk. He's go both front feet in one trap and both back feet in the other, and he is P'OD something terrible. I don't even have to get close and I can hear him growling and hissing. So me and my dog Poochie sneak up to what I feel is a safe distance. Using my first rifle, an Ithaca 49 single shot, I put a LR bullet right thru the lungs. Skunk thrashed around a couple seconds and I swear he made eye contact, and on his last dying breath let loose with this yellow mist of stink. Well, the wind was WRONG....and blew it right at us. I knew as soon as he did it, I was in a bad spot. Me and Pooch tried to make a hasty retreat back up the hill, but it was too late. Although we didn't get a direct hit, the wind covered us in secondary mist. We stunk. Got home and had to throw away the clothes and hit the the Hydrogen Peroxide. You could still catch a whiff of skunk on us for quite a while. Since then, I've always shot skunks with a shotgun. IMO, they don't seem to spray as often. Every once in a while one will, but a good dose of shot seems to render them lifeless pretty quick. Quicker than a bullet thru the lungs anyway. The lead doesn't tear up traps if you're a decent distance away. Don't know what you'd do with one in a box trap. When I was trapping there were people who actually bought skunk scent. They would use it for all sorts of products. There were methods of killing a skunk so it wouldn't spray and then you could remove the skunk essence to sell. I never did it, but if I remember right, I read you could take a syringe on a pole filled with alcohol, and poke them quickly in the ribs with it and they wouldn't spray. I guess the alcohol would drown them almost instantly. Somebody actually used to sell a kit to do this, I remember seeing the drawing of how to use it. I never did it, didn't want to get that close. [/QUOTE]
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