"Dispatching" Skunks

[JIMSMOKES]

Honey bun loaded peanut butter glass works well.

 

[Cattoon]

They work good and aren't what I'd call expensive. Duke's dog proof coon traps. Best bait I've found to use in them is a hostess chocolate cupcake.

Break it up and pack it around the trigger mechanism with a stick once set. The coon will trip the trap trying to get the goodies out.

Be aware that this is a leg trap so you have to dispatch the trapped animal once caught.

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My son in law had something killing chickens. He lost about 8 hens and tried to catch it for a month using foothold traps. I gave him one of these and he caught it that night, big boar coon, used miniature marshmallows for bait, he set it again in a few days and caught the sow coon.

 

[DougE]

My son in law had something killing chickens. He lost about 8 hens and tried to catch it for a month using foothold traps. I gave him one of these and he caught it that night, big boar coon, used miniature marshmallows for bait, he set it again in a few days and caught the sow coon.

I had a coon completely rip its way out of a have-a-heart cage trap it got caught in. As long as these are rigged to where the coon can't twist its leg off to get out, you got them.

 

[cpaysonc]

Honey bun loaded peanut butter glass works well.

I don't follow what you mean? If I do follow, based on my interpretation, that's horrific, there's got to be a more humane solution. My apologies if I've totally misinterpreted.

 

[Brokenhandle]

I live on a farm... thankfully my dogs quit playing with skunks... mostly just possums now. Really sucks to let the dogs back in the house at 10 pm when you're ready for bed to realize they played with a skunk! Bath time!
Have a 5 year old Doberman with only one eye... had to take her to Iowa State vet lab two years ago... some varmit poked her in the eye, and we had to have it removed. She gets along just fine now. Needless to say, I don't trap anything... if my girls don't get them, I do.

Ryan

 

[BC Buck]

Now days skunk is the big money compared to racoon.

 

[bill ace 350]

I have a nice piece of property, 90 acres.

Lots of wildlife....

I believe in live and let live unless I'm going to eat it, or something is doing damage.

For the skunks, racoons woodchucks, squirrels and chipmunks that need attention, I turn to my .17 HMR

 

[DougE]

I turn to my .17 HMR

Small projectile that does much damage to what it hits due to its velocity lol.

 

[mike243]

I won’t put up with a skunk hanging around, they can carry rabies so no matter what you do with 1 wear some rubber gloves if you handle anything that they touch

 

[bill ace 350]

Small projectile that does much damage to what it hits due to its velocity lol.

I have my rifle and scope dialed in!

 

[DougE]

I have my rifle and scope dialed in!

I have often thought of adding a .17 HMR to my lineup, but if I need more than the .22 LR, the 5.56 picks up the slack.

 

[Brokenhandle]

I have a nice piece of property, 90 acres.

Lots of wildlife....

I believe in live and let live unless I'm going to eat it, or something is doing damage.

For the skunks, racoons woodchucks, squirrels and chipmunks that need attention, I turn to my .17 HMR

Woodchucks are tasty!

Ryan

 

[bill ace 350]

I have often thought of adding a .17 HMR to my lineup, but if I need more than the .22 LR, the 5.56 picks up the slack.

I got the .17 a few years ago when a store called Gander Mountain was going out of business. Store was pretty picked over, and only a few rifles and shotguns on the rack...

Asked to see the .17 Savage bolt action....

It was already reduced but they offered it for even less, because it was a left-handed bolt action. I snatched it up....

I'm right handed but shoot lefty!

Got a great deal on that rifle.....

That store later reopened as Gander Outdoors.... friend of mine from work worked the gun counter in his off time....

That store soon was going out of business too...

He knew of all the discounts and deals and would let me know in advance...

I bought a Savage 110 in .308, and a Winchester XPR in .270 for a steal!

Also grabbed a LEM 15 pound stuffer for a hundred bucks!

 

[bill ace 350]

Woodchucks are tasty!

Ryan

When I first started to hunt, my dad said don't shoot an animal you won't eat....the legs are pretty much the only meat...
Not bad either.

 

[Brokenhandle]

When I first started to hunt, my dad said don't shoot an animal you won't eat....the legs are pretty much the only meat...
Not bad either.

We never see any around here... probably cuz of the dogs but a friend gets some from time to time... usually makes chuck and noodles in the Dutch oven.

Ryan

 

[DougE]

I won’t put up with a skunk hanging around, they can carry rabies so no matter what you do with 1 wear some rubber gloves if you handle anything that they touch

I don't handle them, coons, groundhogs, etc, which all are rabies carriers, at all unless I have to get them out of a trap. I always wear gloves, but rabies is transmitted through saliva, not any blood you might come in contact with in handling the now dead critter.

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

Hope everyone understands, Rabies in humans is fatal once symptoms appear.

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

I always found it amusing that one of the locations I use to work at was the Burbank, CA airport. Just outside of the facility I helped with was a drainage pipe that a large skunk family would come in and out of. This is a large airport in Los Angeles area but way smaller than LAX. It has commercial airlines but also state and federal facilities.

Everyone that worked in the area let them be. I would sit in my work vehicle behind a gate and watch them come and go around the pipe from across the street as I was eating my lunch.

In that case everyone got along and it was fun to watch.

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

We were off roading in Moab Utah and rolled up to a Slop Chute in town for dinner.

A tourist bus full of British visitors rolled up too. They were exiting the bus just as a Albino white skunk pulled up and was walking by. Cocky and confident.

No clue what the animal was the tourists then tried to walk up and pet it and got blasted. An easy 15 to 20 foot throw. Hold that thought. They have some serious range.

It's brutal, nothing I ever want to experience.

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

Daughter sued a college scholarship program that excluded her based on DEI.
She won the lawsuit and within days packed up and gone to school.
She dropped off her straight razor totin' cat in route to school, the rest was history.

Looks like a cupcake, but a bad AZZ, world class hunter cat. Stacked them up.
1.4 acre lots our homes out here are on and the cat went to work eliminating the rat, mouse, dive bombing poop birds and especially the rabbits and gophers.

Coyote smart, knew how to avoid them for the next 15 years. When the Cat tapped out from old age, even the neighbors came over to inquire and give thanks.

Coyotes are smart dogs, really sharp but we always wonder if the cats skunk colors fooled the Coyotes as well.