A few skunk questions.

OKRattler

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Ok so this guy I know wants to pay me $50-$75 to catch and skin a skunk for him.He's gonna make a fake skunk to play pranks on people with so I'm gonna have to tan it too I think.My first question is how should I kill it so that it does'nt spray?I was thinkin about drowning it but I know a guy that tryed that once and he said it still stunk so I'm not exactly sure.My next question is,should I wait until Winter to catch a skunk to skin or would it be alright to go ahead and catch one now?They always look like they have thick fur so I dont know when the best time to catch them is or if there is a best time.I've shot a bunch of em' but this will be the first time I've ever caught one on purpose or skinned a skunk so I have no clue what I'm doin.Any help ya'll could give me would be much appreciated.
 
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Hey Rattler---sounds like your gonna have fun---be sure to make a video. You can make a temp.CO-2 chamber by turning a garbage can on its side.Slowly feed CO-2 into the bottom and the oxegen out the top and the skunk won't spray or leak. Be careful where you poke and push when your skin'in or your gonna say some bad words.
 
The best luck I had trapping skunks, well I wont say luck becuase I wasnt trying to trap skunks was more towards fox or coon... But anyways I bought some of that "Bait Pile" stuff when it first came out and used it in my live traps. Three times using it only caught three skunks and if you choose to trap dont shoot them far away, they still spray and it sticks in your nose and plus you have to clean your traps... I havent tried yet but heard if if you get like a 8x8 tarp and walk up slowly to them and if you have a place to drown them like a creek or pond heard that works, but what catcapper said also I heard that works too, good luck!
 
Putting the tarp over the trap does work so you can transport them, but I have no idea how to kill one with out it spraying,
I thought they just all sprayed once they were gone, there muscles would relax and it all comes leaking out, not sure though. Good luck
 
i trapped one one time in the heat of summer and had to wait til after work to deal with the problem in the trap. turns out on a hot day they'll have a heat stroke. with no smell at all. it was one of the worse but best feelings i think i ever had. note i didn't intentionally do that to him.
 
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Thanks for the suggestions ya'll.I dont have any CO2 or anything like that or any acetone to inject into the skunk but I might have to check into it.I think I might wait until Winter to do all of this but I have'nt decided yet.I think for 50 or possibly 75 dollars gettin that smell on me might not be too bad.But then it again it would be really gross so I'll try to avoid that if at all possible.I thought about having someone film it but nobody wants to go with me when I go on this little skunk catchin adventure.Most of my friends seem to say things like "You're crazy." and stuff like that so I dont think they want to go with me when all of this happens.As for making an instructional video for people just learning how to skin skunks well......I'm not a person to learn from ya'll.I'm pretty sure this whole situation is either gonna end with me gettin sprayed right off the bat or gettin that stinky stuff on me when I'm skinnin it so either way the video would have some foul language in it and nobody would want to watch it.So maybe once I try it and learn how I will make a video on how to skin a skunk.The only video camera I have is the one on my cellphone right now so it would be a little tricky doin it that way too.But a friend of mine has a video camera that I might be able to borrow I'll check into that too.
And Catkiller,I'm not sure why he wants to pay that much.But if he'll pay that much to do a simple task like catchin and skinnin a skunk I aint gonna stop him.Well.......I say its a simple task now.I'll let ya'll know how it turns out and it might be a funny story for ya'll and a not so funny story for me.Lets hope not but its a good possibility that I'm gonna be stinkin when I'm typin my story about the skunk I caught and skinned.
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Also heres another idea I heard from somewhere before.What if I put a tarp over the trap and ran a hose from the exhaust pipe of my truck to where the skunk is?Could I kill a skunk that way without it sprayin everything?
 
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When my Dad was a kid, he ran a trapline for "civvy cats" (civets or spotted skunks). He walked to grade school and would check his traps on the way. He trapped them around an old rock fence that was between his house and the school house. They eventually told him to quit trapping skunks or quit coming to school. However, he would ease up to within 20 or 30 feet and shoot them in the head with 22 shorts. He said they very seldom sprayed when shot with shorts, but always would if shot with longs.
 
I always heard that the best way to do what you are trying to do is make an old wooden box trap. Once you get the skunk in there, you drown him. Just place the trap in water. Seems kind of heartless, but... If you get good at it I will buy a skunk skin from you. I use them for tying flies. Hope this works for you
 
I shoot them in the lungs with a 22 rimfire. They very rarely spray. They need their lungs to spray, if you deflate the lungs they can't do it. You will still get a little residue smell but not that bad. Have fun!
 
Loop Wing-Me and a buddy of mine made a wooden trap once so I might have to try it again.The door on the trap can be improved so I'll have to work on it a little first but I think it should work.

Natureboy-I can give that a try.I've shot a bunch of em' with all kinds of guns and only had a few of them that did'nt spray.I dont know if they were lung shots or not but maybe a few were.I just shoot em' and leave them layin there when I shoot a skunk so I never know where the bullet hit them afterwards.One that I can remember very well is the one that I shot with a .223 but even though it did'nt spray there would'nt have been much left to skin.

guyswildstorm-I think you're right.
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