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Anybody ever Drown a Skunk ?.. I just drowned two and don't smell any worse than usual...HAHAHA

I've given swimming lessons to skunks before... they don't seem particularly good at it. My usual location was a trout raceway, always wondered if the fish smelled for 14 days afterwards....

Yep, place em in a tank of water real slow and they won't spray.

Screw that... I'd be afraid of the rabid little bastids biting me while I hold them around the neck under water. So I just shoot 'em. A little stink never hurt nobody.....

Bad Karma drowning things. Never had occasion to kill one but I’d much prefer to shoot ‘em. I rather like the smell of skunk.

You're thinking of weed Birdie........

Hows that pup doing? disown you yet?

Sweet pistol Hunt. Is that a woodsman? How accuarate?

I still luv the pic of 'Pumpkin'

Skunks.....hate em

I keep a live trap set in the back field...

When I catch a skunk....I simply dispatch it my my trusty Ruger 77 17 M2

2 days later I dump it out for the crows & magpies

More targets..............

17M2........

skunk is dead right now !

Is this how people killed the to get the skin for a hat? My dad used to tell me that if you shot them in the head they won’t spray. He later denied that when I tried his method. A couple seconds after the shot it was game on for musk. Disclosure. I checked about 15 minutes after my attempt and the skunk was gone. It had to be a glancing shot off it’s noggin cause it was down when I left it.

Here in North Dakota, I shoot every skunk that I have a chance to. Several years ago, when he was a teenager, my son stepped on a skunk while we were out grouse hunting. He was is some taller grass, didn't see the animal and the wind was strong enough that he didn't smell it. He wasn't sprayed, directly, but got the fluid on his outerwear. Thankfully, the skunk didn't bite or scratch him so there were no rabies concerns. My son was NOT happy about the two hour car ride home in his undwear though, and never went grouse hunting again. That was 13 years ago. If I have a gun in the vehicle, I will shoot any skunk I see - maybe even in your front yard. I'll apologize for doing it, but only after the deed is done. No quarter given as far as I'm concerned.....

Kaiser Norton

been sprayed once, don't throw your clothes in the washing machine for your mom to find.

Friend of mine had a pecan orchard in New Mexico. Skunks were a common problem and needed thinning at times.

He initially started live trapping near his house and quickly figured that to be a bad idea. So he set his live traps out amongst the trees and that worked better.

He would never shoot them in the trap.... made a stink every time.

He would slowly approach the trap and throw an old blanket over the trap. Said skunks would rarely fire when covered. He would then pick up the trap/blanket up and lower into a drainage ditch. Skunks would quickly drown and never fire.

Retrieve trap, dispose of skunk and reset.

or you could shoot them in the head.... however do not ever under any circumstances round a corner on a 4wheeler and stop while they are behind a huge pine tree with their foot in a trap...... Bad Stuff Happens.

Weed ain’t a bad smell neither,and it’s a pretty plant for sure, never did like the feeling of being stoned tho, it’s like a heavy blanket on your brain, my drugs are alcohol and caffeine.

The dogs? Blondie is totally devoted, doesn’t want to leave my side, but she’s also the one who waited by the field for three weeks after she was dumped. Tough too, you’d never guess she had a canine hysterectomy just 48 hours ago.

Cleburne? He’s my friend and all, and he did save my neck when that guy showed up at my open front door at 4am, but his pups sing “Papa was a rolling stone, wherever he laid his hat was his home....”

Id like to watch you do that, Stan. Got a video, especially regarding the "placing" part.

Every skunk I've ever caught in a live trap and shot in the head sprayed. I stand upwind and get the heck away, then later I'll dump the carcass on a woodpile and give them a Viking funeral.....

I've caught plenty in live traps here, and standard procedure is either gas them or drown them. I don't particularly like drowning them, seems kinda mean, so if I have time I'll gas them.

So, uh, just how long was it did you live in Afreaka now?