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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