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How do you trap and dispatch skunks.

Friend has them under the house.

Very carefully!

Live trap.......whack 'em from a distance with 17M2......

Dump it out 1-2 days later......birds finish 'em off

Trap them, reach in, grab em,

Can of tuna or marshmallows in a live trap. Approach trap very slowly and calmly with an old blanket or sheet held up concealing your approach to trap. Be sure to keep this between you and the skunk. Slowly cover trapped skunk with that blanket. Take trap to pond or deep puddle and slowly lower trapped skunk and submerge for more than 5 minutes. Done

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I shoot every one I see.........

in or out of a trap

A live trap is the way to go.

Put a large heavy duty garbage bag over it. Preferably black and thick (that's what she said)

When you set the trap tie some rope or cord to the handle and string it through a small hole in the garbage bag.

When the skunk is in it, slowly approach and ease it into the bed of your truck. Don't let the skunk see you and try and move slow.

Worse case scenario it sprays, but not on you.

Lower trap into nearby water source. Drink a beer or 15. Retrieve, dump skunk. Repeat as necessary.

Why?

Because they vote democrat.

Aww shit, just noodle em, the smell will wear off.

See who gets choked down first, huh?

same as coon..........pheasant egg robbin' SOB's

Rabies carrying......ever have your dog sprayed ?

17M2 makes a dead skunk or coon right now

I’ve heard this is the best solution.

Reba: Shoot them in the head or directly in the spine with a 17 HMR bullet/Rifle - they will succumb quickly and can't spray if done correctly.
Believe me I have learned this lesson the hard way.
Good luck in your quest.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Tikkanut: I love my various 17 Mach2 Rifles but have as yet to shoot a Skunk with one.
When I see a Skunk near my home I go for one of my 17 HMR Rifles.
Maybe I will try the 17 Mach2 on the next one I see.
Where do you shoot them (I try for the brain or the spine and that incapacitates them immediately using the 17 HMR)?
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Firecrackers

Burmese tiger trap. And a gaff hook. Careful where you put that gaff.

Live trap with marshmallows is the best. When caught I just through a big towel over it and haul them away,either shoot them or just let them go,usually near a swamp where they'll have food and stay. Ya can also drop them off near a A-hole's house and let them have fun.

Had the same problem years ago in MO, stinkers always getting under the house.

Game warden told me to take a sock, put mothballs in it, soak it with ammonia, throw it under house.

Skunks will leave.

House smells like mothballs, better than the d*** skunks.

It worked.

This is the skunk mating season, and they're all over the roads.

Get rid of the grubs in your yard and the stinkers will leave.

Pick em up by the back of the neck and they can't spray. Just like this

I thought this was gonna be a thread about democrats.

Horse shît and skunks

It’s hellish out there

I shot 4 skunks last year and every one of them sprayed. Lung shots and head shots, 17 hmr with 20 grain game points.

Haven't seen one lately but might try a .308.

shotguns

I don't bother them unless they become a problem.. because as long as they are around they will dig up yellowjackets nests and eat them . I prefer skunks to yellowjackets..

We killed 15 one day quail hunting up by Cisco Texas. We all smelled, my Bud, me, and the dogs.

Wait until you know they aren't under the house, then block-off all the ways you know they've been using to getting in. What ever you wind up doing though, it would probably be best to make sure you do it before they have litters still nursing under the house.

No that doesn't happen until mid March.

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This trap works really well. Never had one spray inside this trap.

Old beekeeper trick. Take a raw egg and punch a hole in one end if it. Take three aspirin, powder them up, and mix them into the egg. Make sure it's well blended. Dig a hole the size of the egg and place the egg in it with just the open end showing.

The aspirin acts as an anticoagulant. Skunk wanders off and then falls asleep forever.

The amount of aspirin is enough to kill the skunk, but not enough to bother a dog. Cat's will usually leave it alone.

Live trap baited with sardines. After caught put to sleep with exhaust of truck. My trap is made of sheet metal a couple doors you can slide open and shut.

And if they die under your house?

I made a live trap out of a 33 gal barrel. When caught them just shot them through the holes I put in the front of barrel. Did not have one of them spray.

The Pro’s use a jab stick filled with acetone—hit them in the lungs—no smell

Bonus being you can use it as a skunk launcher if you prepare appropriately...

I'll be buying one of these mofo's.

The trap Jim posted works well as does this one. I trapped a lot of skunks in these traps when I lived in eastern Washington. They don't spray because they cannot see out. Just drop the trap in a barrel of water or pond for 15 minutes. A gob of peanut butter smeared in the back of the trap works fairly well. I used to make a small bag out of a piece of panty hose and put a good dollop of peanut butter in it and hang it in the back of the cage. It would seep a little oil and didn't dry out like it would smeared on the back of wall of the trap. It also positioned the skunk over the treadle that tripped the door. Any meat bait will have you catching all the neighborhood cats before the skunk gets a chance to get to it.

I found the most effective way to shoot them and not have them spray was to use a 22 CB Long or LR subsonic solid and hit them in the lungs. They'd flinch at the shot but didn't get excited. In less than a minute they would fall over. Head shots, especially with high velocity and HP ammo tends to put them into involuntary convulsions that activate the muscles which control the scent glands. I used to head shoot them when I caught them in a coyote trap and never had one that didn't spray. An old trapper turned me onto the lung shot with solids and it worked very well.

30 + years ago, 4 kits took up residence in a plumbing chase in the mobile home we lived in - entered through a hole in the floor we didn't know about.
"The Warden" declared that somebody was leaving, her and the kids, the skunks, or me !
Got no help from anyone I called.
I woke up in the middle of the night with an answer - make 'em uncomfortable !
We slept one night with all the lights on (skunks being nocturnal) and left for work and school leaving the radio turned up as high as it would go on the nastiest rock station I could find.
By the end of the second day, they had evidently gone in search of new housing - in a less "rowdy" neighborhood.
Didn't like the neighbors, I suppose !

Can of cat food in a live trap, tie a strong cord to the trap. After capture drag trap out from under house and head into the wind/cross wind away from the house. Approach trap from upwind and put a .22 into it's head. It WILL spray, so stay upwind. Later, dump carcass onto a brush pile and give it a Viking funeral....

Go to the store and obtain some Lutefisk... Toss it under the house by the skunks and they'll be gone in an hour...




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Of course then, your biggest problem will be convincing the Norwegians to come out from under the house....

It's happening now, idgit, here where I live. Thank goodness you don't live anywhere close to me.

that's what we do here in PA , trap them and throw into the creek

better grabbing by the tail, keep the front feet off the groung

is there a difference? rather have a skunk around than a Democrat

Not knowing whats in it could be a heck of a surprise,sort of what Forrest Gump said about a box of chocolates.

This. ^^^ They usually don't spray at all if you throw a towel or sheet over the trap.

when i was 12 caught one in a live trap, able to pick it up in the trap and carry it to my friends house without getting sprayed. we put it in a cage with the bright idea of getting it descented. his older who always f-cked with us came home and threw me on the cage and it sprayed me..... went home threw my clothes in the washing machine and got in the tub. my mom was pissed when she got home, yelling who got sprayed by a skunk. had to get rid of the washing machine.

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while in the live trap........trying to stay upwind......

17M2 in the ear........lights out.....M2's are amazing.......

especially when you have 5K + rds of ammo