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shootem in the lungs they wont spray. Shootem in the head and they stink up the place
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I to am a fan of the jab stick and 90% alcohol
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You "jab em in the lungs with alcohol" guys, please describe your skunk equipment.
Is this something that's commercially available or do you just have a long piece of bamboo with a syringe on it..?
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I just leave them in the trap until they die from lack of food and water. Never had one spray.
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Back in the sixties, Andy had one touring the basement of his older farmhouse. Taking umbrage at this intrusion, Andy cornered him behind the furnace and introduced him to the payload of a 12-gauge. Andy stayed at home to take care of the farm while his wife and kids moved into town with her folks for an extended spell.
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I just leave them in the trap until they die from lack of food and water. Never had one spray. From Oklahoma regulations: Visiting traps: Traps must be tended once each 24-hour period. I'd bet the definition of tending in your regulations do not include letting the animal die from lack of food or water.
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I just leave them in the trap until they die from lack of food and water. Never had one spray. I'd be surprised if that was legal, cause it sure as hell ain't ethical in my book. Legal or not, I really hope that's a tongue in cheek thing too. I don't think much of any man who'd make it a point to intentionally prolong any critter's suffering in such a way. I have zero problem with dispatching a nuisance animal, but I'd never want anything to do with anyone who had a mindset that sees nothing wrong with that.
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Attach a vet syringe on the end of aa aluminum extendable painting pole. Fill with 90% alcohol, walk up real nice and calm, tickle their side with the needle and they will push up against it and inject themselves, 15 seconds later they are asleep and will never wake up
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Fingernail polish remover is almost pure acetone--so is the foreshots off the still--90% alcohol should go into the barrel fer agin.
jab stick really is the best way
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Didnt do a lot of trapping when I was a kid, but when I caught a skunk I would shoot it with a 22 leave it for a day or two and toss it.
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I had a small nuisance wildlife business for several years. I had to kill a large number of skunks that found their way into traps not intended for them. The best method I ever found was to use the CB longs, CB shorts or LR subsonics, solids not hollowpoints through the lungs. The higher velocity rounds tend to send them into enough shock that they panic and spray. The low velocity rounds seem not to bother them and they simply fall over shortly with no spray. Avoid hitting the bones of the front legs or shoulders.
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I've heard of folks using car exhaust.
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We just pick up the trap and carry it to some place away from the house where it doesn't matter if they spray(pasture). Open trap, step back and shoot him with a shot gun when he runs out. Never had one spray in trap while alive.
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If you just wanted to relocate them put the trap in back of a pickup, drive to a river, back the truck over the water and dump them out from the bed of the truck. They will swim awy from the truck and cannot spray while swimming.
If not, just tie light rope to trap and drop in water.
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I process from 10 to 30 each summer here. I use a Dura Poly live trap. Just tip the trap up an fill it with water to drown them. MN Trapline Products carries them. If you are careful they seldom smell at all.
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I used a length of 3/4" wood dowling about 7.5' long so I could carry it in the bed of the truck. Like was stated before, buy a pet syringe from Tractor supply with needles. I would then take the plunger out of the syringe and using small wood screws, attach it to one end of the "jab stick" . then place syringe body back on it and carry alcohol and needles separately. Just attache needle and then draw a dose of alcohol as needed and inject as described. Works EVERY time.
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I never knew about the lung shot issue. Though come to think of it I've shot some in the pasture in the lungs and they've only rarely sprayed.
While trapping years ago, I'd just shoot em in the head and get em out of the trap. Seemed you always had at least 30 seconds or so before they sprayed. Never got sprayed myself.
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At times the scent from skunks is worth pretty good money, hate to see it go to waste. It is used to make perfume of all things
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I've heard of folks using car exhaust. My best way.. water ? takes too long and a LOT of water. I'd put the box trap into a HUGE plastic bag ( the type shipping peanuts are shipped in.. it has holes all over it. Tie it to the tailpipe of my truck and fire it off Go have a cup of coffee and come back and dispose of polecat. Repeat. Sometimes 7 times in a week!
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Saw my brother dispatch a skunk in a trap last week. There was a stromg wind and we were up wind. He used his AR and 55 grain V max. It sprayed.
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