Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Predators and Varmints No smell/kill shot for skunks

The one I shot bear hunting, I carried him by the arrow through the head, and dropped him a ways away. The next day the ravens had him down to hide and bones.

I cheerioed one with a .22-250 and a 50 gr. TNT...

NOT the "no smell " shot..

but the bullet didnt exit!

Need to load it down a bit if you're looking to plug the hole........

Ive been trapping 26 years and I am yet to find a method of kill that is 100% no sprayem. I got to where I just shot them in the head and set some traps around them. You'd be suprised at what comes to see a dead skunk. I guess no animal likes a skunk.

Joseph

The man shot a skunk, with a bow, while bear hunting.....then carried it around like a grand master with a parade baton.....

....then went back to check on it the next day...

I was "helping" in Ontario at a bow only bear camp.

I had access to over 100 baits......

Your point?

I know a 110 Sierra out of a 270, head on at 80 yards won't do it. Neither will a 12 ga. #4 buck load broadside at 20 yards. That one killed the grass in a 3 foot circle and left a lovely fragrance in the house all of 50 yards away.

I have known several guys that have shot skunks while archery
hunting.

Thought it was funny. It would have made a good camp story to see someone walking through the woods with a skunk on a stick....

Funnier yet, as I carried him out on the trail, he musta been dripping on the underbrush. Even though I thought I had keep him to the side, when my buddies picked me up in the full size Bronco and flipped on the heat, they almost made me sit on the roof rack for all the stench I was emitting. I couldn't tell at the time back in the stand, as the area around the bait was so fouled up from the bastard anyway. The following year you could still make out a slight aroma at the discharge site.

A 12 ga. from about 15 feet, right up the whazoo! Nothing more satisfying than plastering a skunk!

Gut shoot them and they won't spray, an old trappers trick.

My dad shoots them with 22 cb shorts on his trap line. He has pretty good luck with them not spraying that way. Oh yea and lung shoot them.

I can say that a head shot right betweent the eyes will NOT work. I tried and then couldn't go into the garage for a month.


We started to drown them, works alot better. If they do spray you can get rid of the scent by dumping the water. But Only 1 sprayed out of the last 10. I put about half of the garbage can full of water with packing peanuts, then float a tin full of tuna in the middle. Works like a champ.

VA has it right. I too have live trapped many. You can wire tie a tarp around a live trap with the door that opens when turned upside down. Have a flap of tarp for the door too. When you have a victim just approach from behind and lay the flap over the door. The skunk will see nothing and you can transport it anywhere. On release just set the trap on the ground and slowly turn it upside down. The door will open and you simply allow it to leave. .Never had one spray....