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Years ago I use skunk scent as a cover scent a lot. For some odd reason I haven't seen it on the shelf anywhere for a while. So I ordered some from Moccasin Joes, anyone have any experience with this brand?


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For coyote hunting, as a cover scent? It's a waste of money.


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Have had pretty good luck with it just open the bottle and set it down. Might sound crazy bit it seemed to attract coyotes at times.I could tell they noticed it and some came my way like they were investigating. Too bad for them. The brand I used back then might have been Tinks but not sure.


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Who the hell bothers with a bottle?....

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If you bother with a bottle, make it a glass one. My favorite skunk scent story was when I ordered a glass bottle of the stuff to use as a bow hunting cover scent back when I thought such foolishness was necessary. Since like one drop is all a person ever needed, I had a lifetime supply and my buddy wanted some, so I told him to bring over a bottle. We treated that stuff like nitroglycerin going into his plastic bottle and he put it in the back seat of his car for safe keeping. He forgot it over night, but the wife was not pleased when they got into the car the next morning for church. Turns out that a plastic bottle is a semi-permeable membrane when it comes to containing skunk scent.


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I used to trap skunks before fox season started to keep them out of my fox sets. The really good ones went into snowmobile mits. The rest got chopped up hide and all for winter fox bait, hypodermic needle to remove scent to use on late winter sets. One of my most productive sets was to dig up a 3 foot circle and pile the dirt in a mound in the center with a skunk tail with just the tip of the tail sticking up out of the center of the mound. Then dig a dirt hole in either side of the mount. Baited with skunk meat or tainted mutton.

Ardel Grawes had a great call lure with a heavy dose of skunk.

Even with a set with skunk call lure, dosed with fox/coyote pee and baited with skunk meat even a slightly tainted trap would get dug up. You can't fool there nose.

I tried cover scents, mostly earth and forest.scents and gave that up real quick...the wind is the best way to keep your scent away from predators


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Originally Posted by erich
I used to trap skunks before fox season started to keep them out of my fox sets. The really good ones went into snowmobile mits. The rest got chopped up hide and all for winter fox bait, hypodermic needle to remove scent to use on late winter sets. One of my most productive sets was to dig up a 3 foot circle and pile the dirt in a mound in the center with a skunk tail with just the tip of the tail sticking up out of the center of the mound. Then dig a dirt hole in either side of the mount. Baited with skunk meat or tainted mutton.

Ardel Grawes had a great call lure with a heavy dose of skunk.

Even with a set with skunk call lure, dosed with fox/coyote pee and baited with skunk meat even a slightly tainted trap would get dug up. You can't fool there nose.

I tried cover scents, mostly earth and forest.scents and gave that up real quick...the wind is the best way to keep your scent away from predators

True but sadly the wind is not always blowing the way I want it to.


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Originally Posted by huntsman22
Who the hell bothers with a bottle?....

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So I run the risk of that guy showing up when I open the bottle! Pew!


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Originally Posted by rickt300
Originally Posted by erich
I used to trap skunks before fox season started to keep them out of my fox sets. The really good ones went into snowmobile mits. The rest got chopped up hide and all for winter fox bait, hypodermic needle to remove scent to use on late winter sets. One of my most productive sets was to dig up a 3 foot circle and pile the dirt in a mound in the center with a skunk tail with just the tip of the tail sticking up out of the center of the mound. Then dig a dirt hole in either side of the mount. Baited with skunk meat or tainted mutton.

Ardel Grawes had a great call lure with a heavy dose of skunk.

Even with a set with skunk call lure, dosed with fox/coyote pee and baited with skunk meat even a slightly tainted trap would get dug up. You can't fool there nose.

I tried cover scents, mostly earth and forest.scents and gave that up real quick...the wind is the best way to keep your scent away from predators

True but sadly the wind is not always blowing the way I want it to.

Cover scent isn't going to change anything in that situation.


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I agree the coyote is just going smell a hunter that stinks like a skunk. That’s if the wind isn’t right.

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