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Don-Wi

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A momma skunk took up residence in our burn pile a while back and had babies. Momma's been spotted eating from the cat dish a few times now. Yesterday I pulled in the drive and a baby one was grubbing in the neighbors front yard.

Mom called my nephew over and I shot the one I saw and he shot another that Dad spotted. Later mom saw another so that one got a pellet too.

Tonight I was helping my wife put the kids in the car and she saw another in the neighbors yard so I grabbed the pellet gun again and shot this one too.

Not sure how many are left but we're starting to make a dent...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I always feel like I am dealing with a ticking time bomb. I know there will be a time when I make the whole barnyard stick for a week, but up until now they have all been dispatched scent free. Good to know I'm not the only one who has bad a run of them!
 
It's a gamo-mom got it for rabbits in the winter time. Needs to be sighted in though.

We're a little leary about anything bigger because the city moved in around us and some people are morons...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Brother had 10 in his yard yesterday morning. All he had was a single shot 12ga, so he called in reinforcement (me). I took my 12ga pump, and between him and me, we dispatched all 10 in short order. It took some fast pumping and reloading, but it was a good thing to get rid of them all.
 
If you are after ground squirrles, catch one going into his hole. Take a milk or chemical jug full of water quickly and pore it into the hole. They will come right up into the jug. Put the cap on and you have them.
 
You're pretty good - I've probably shot 50 skunks in my lifetime, and the one I shot yesterday was the very first one that died without spraying. If the light is right (backlit) I can see the spray in the air right after the shot. Seems like there's more skunks now than there was when I was a kid, and they're not night-time only creatures any more.
 
Here's a picture of the first night's kill. They all sprayed, but we were far enough away that they didn't get us.

The one I got tonight sprayed too. Not much, but just enough.

No more have been spotted yet, but Mom's been keeping the gun on the door in the barn. We never used to see skunks, but in the last 10-12 years or so they've been all over. Same with pretty much all the other wild life around here.

Something started eating the one before I got back with a pitch fork to pick them up.

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Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Dave - Take a 5 gal bucket and fill it between 1/2 and 3/4 full. Take a couple of handfulls of sunflower seeds and float them on top of the water. Take 2X4 and set up a ramp to the bucket that extends a 1/4 to 1/2 across the top. Using some peanut butter - just a little to make the sunflowers stick, set up a trail of sunflower seeds along the 2X4 - maybe three or four spots with 2 to 4 sunflowers on the ramp. Put a few sunflowers on the ground around the ramp. Leave in place.

If you see the sunflowers eaten, replace them.

If they are eaten you can gently move the sunflowers in the water with a board to see if anything is in the bucket, or wait a day and they will float to the top.

If you find they are taking the sunflowers off the top of the water in the bucket, lower the water a little.
 
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