In general, I don't like to kill skunks as they are an efficient insectivore and eat pounds of grasshoppers. However, when one invades the campground I have to do something about it and have found a shotgun to work best. What doesn't work is me trying to hit a running skunk with a 357 pistol while simultaneously trying to hold back an excited airdale.
A neighbor was telling me he had discovered how to get those skunks. He said he went out into the hayfield at night and there were always a bunch of skunks out eating grasshoppers and he could get them with the 12 gauge. I told him that was good and the last thing he wanted was skunks decimating his grasshopper crop. "Hadn't thought of it that way", he said. GD
