Skunk in the garage!

Skunks are pretty easy to deal with if you can't use a conibear. Get a live trap, build a wood box with a couple holes in it, some weights, and a door on it that is just big enough to fit the live trap in. Bait the trap, catch skunk, close the door, throw in body of water, come back later, retrieve trap and reuse. Oh tie a rope to the box to pull it up later.

Works for coons too but they don't spray so you don't need the box.
 
I've shot a lot of skunks (7 in one weekend!). All with a 22. Body shot or head shot, it doesn't matter. Only one squirted a bit. Shoot him and get him the next morning. Bury deep! Before you do anything, get some baking soda and hydrogen peroxide. Just in case...
 
weasel1 said:
I've shot a lot of skunks (7 in one weekend!). All with a 22. Body shot or head shot, it doesn't matter. Only one squirted a bit. Shoot him and get him the next morning. Bury deep! Before you do anything, get some baking soda and hydrogen peroxide. Just in case...
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At my new house I have shot a few now. Left them overnight to let the stink die down before I toss em. All three were gone the next morning. Something likes eating them. I should get a trail cam one day.
 
My grandfather used to trap and skin skunks on his farm. To kill them he wired the trap to a long pole and would lift the skunk by the leg and shoot them in the head. Skunks cannot spray unless they can brace their legs together against something. The only skunk I ever had to shoot left a green mist over a field of snow and yes it was a bang flop.
When I was a kid I used to trap a little and have caught a few skunks when catching coons. I like skunks for their no worry attitude and usually bear them no ill will so released them whenever I could. I would approach slowly talking in low tones, like approaching a moody cat, and use a stick to compress the spring on the leg-hold trap. They would slowly lumber off into the bush without scent. One in particular was so frozen in fear that I had to nudge him out of the trap after the trap jaws fell open.
Also when I was a kid I spent more than a few evenings at the local dump shooting rats. On two different occasions I had skunks walk by scavenging for food in the garbage, one of which was a mother with kits. I froze and one of the kits literally walked over the toe of my boot. The municipality at the time would set fire to the trash on Fridays and as the burn moved through the trash the rats would break cover but that is another story.
Also of note that skunks are good for at least four good sprays, while hunting groundhogs with my dad we saw a skunk in a cut hay field. Dad put a round into the ground about four feet in front of the skunk which promptly spun around and sprayed. After four good green clouds floating across the field the fifth round only brought a small squirt.

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Ive used a live trap and then covered it with a blanket, 99% of the time this method works well, but I have had a couple spray when opening the trap door to release them. Most times the skunk will start stomping its front feet before it sprays but not always.
 
Would love to have built one, but I bought the plastic live catch
trap in Peavey mart this morning. If I catch him in the garage I can either gas him
or take him out into the fields where he can spray all he wants. I can spray
a lot further than him.
 
shot 1 that didn,t spray 200 that did set bait like a can of sardines and a live trap away from garage because if it does spray in there it will attract other skunks. or just put the dog food somewhere else and leave it alone it will stop coming after a while
 
Setting the cage trap tonight with some burnt marshmallows(hopefully not get a cat with them).
The dog needs a dog pen, the cats need evicted, but the skunk has to die. I want him dead, I want his family dead, I want his friends dead.
I have been pleased to see a few grey partridge around the yard and I want to give them and all the other ground nesting birds a chance.
I'm planting more shelter belt and letting the grass and weeds grow in it, predator eradication is just part of the big picture. Already nailed half a dozen magpies in the yard. I will keep the trap set all the time even if I get this guy.
 
The skunk is no more. Peavey mart trap kind of worked. 1st night he went in the trap without setting it off. I had put marshmallows in there and he climbed right into the trap, over the trigger plate and actually lifted the trigger up to get at the food. Saturday morning I found the bait gone and the trigger bar that holds the door open pushed all the way out.
Last night I heard a noise in the garage, looked out to see the trigger bar all the way out. The dog was looking at the trap and I could hear him inside. I picked up the broom, pushed the bar in and dropped the door on him. We went for a drive this morning and only one of us came back.
Peavey mart plastic trap is great in that I was able to pick up the trap and carry it without him spraying, no blankets required.
The trap would catch ok if baited properly, I just did'nt want to catch cats in it.
Skunk did'nt spray when he caught 1 1/8 lead no 4, just dropped and went to skunk heaven.
 
my daughter in law caught a skunk in a live animal cage trap with sardines for bait last Fall. She shot it in the cage with a 410 #6, no spray. Then she caught another one this Spring, her dog went near the cage and got sprayed! She shot that one in the head in the cage win a 22 mag. I don't think I'd walk up to the cage to move it with a live skunk in it. This is an all metal wired type cage from Peavey Mart.
 
When I used to spend the fall hunting in Sask with the Old Man we spent a lot of time cruising around looking for birds. Since we had all those old 1 7/8 oz #2 goose loads that couldn't be used anymore there was no reason not to perform a little skunk jihad.

Glad the garage thing worked out for you. My method would have cost you a tank of gas...
 
migrant hunter said:
The skunk is no more. Peavey mart trap kind of worked. 1st night he went in the trap without setting it off. I had put marshmallows in there and he climbed right into the trap, over the trigger plate and actually lifted the trigger up to get at the food. Saturday morning I found the bait gone and the trigger bar that holds the door open pushed all the way out.
Last night I heard a noise in the garage, looked out to see the trigger bar all the way out. The dog was looking at the trap and I could hear him inside. I picked up the broom, pushed the bar in and dropped the door on him. We went for a drive this morning and only one of us came back.
Peavey mart plastic trap is great in that I was able to pick up the trap and carry it without him spraying, no blankets required.
The trap would catch ok if baited properly, I just did'nt want to catch cats in it.
Skunk did'nt spray when he caught 1 1/8 lead no 4, just dropped and went to skunk heaven.
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that sounded almost too easy ....... there was so much potential for this being one of "those" stories , that gets told for like 20 years ..... :)
 
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