Got Skunked

bohunr

bohunr

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got 5 of them actually. a property owner that allows us to hunt coyotes decided he had enough of the skunks when i told him we counted 13 different skunks one night.

he asked if i could get rid of them, so i tried. i took my suppressed 22 lr with a red light to shoot with but used a thermal scanner to locate them.

i had the 22 mounted on a tripod and got about 20 yards away, did a wind check to make sure if the skunk sprayed it went someplace besides me.

the gun went pfft, the bullet went WHAP and skunk fell down. the sound of the bullet hitting was actually louder than the gun, i used CCI suppressor 22 lr subsonic HP at 970 fps.

i tried for a chest shot that gives a better chance of them not spraying than a head shot. only two sprayed, the other 3 three leaked a little, the whole place just stunk like skunk.

he told me to leave them lay and he would get rid of them. :)

Sorry, no photos, not getting any closer than i had to. and of course my truck was parked down wind :ROFLMAO:
 
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Good for you bohunr--with this knee I am still nursing and one eye I have been casting my headlight only about 2 steps in front of me for the last several weeks. I have caught movement in the light's halo at 6-8ft 3 times that has turned out to be skunks scurrying away with a high tail. I am afraid one of these nights Suz is not going to allow me in the house🤬:ROFLMAO:!
 
sounds like a target rich environment.. I think I'd be hurling long range mortar at them. HAHAH . With the kind of luck I have, I'd get nuked, walk home, and live in a tent for 2 weeks before I could get into the house.
 
thats why i did a wind check before shooting, wait for them to turn broadside too. if they spray, the wind can carry the oil right to you.
 
That sounds like fun haha. Never shot 5 but nights I’ve counted 11 and had my son shoot a few before we left. Good practice through the thermal for him. Man, when they spray, that’s crazy the tar like looking funnel shaped gunk behind them in the grass laying there dead.
 
got two more tonight. i had 3 all mapped out to approach according to the wind direction. the wind shifted on the first one and it ran all the way to the neighboring tree line and into their front yard.

i managed to get the other two and....NO SPRAY.

got em both with broadside shots, still didnt even smell much of anything even when i got down wind. going to be an easy pick up for the owner in the morning.
 
On the way home from my son and I’s last stand there was a skunk in middle of road, didn’t have time to stop, didn’t want to hit it and stink the truck up so I narrowly missed it with the passenger side tires had to of been so close I wasn’t sure if I’d miss but never felt it at all. Didn’t want to swerve badly. We didn’t smell anything on way home but, as soon as we got home got out of truck. The damn thing musta got so scared it came so close he sprayed. It isn’t horrible but I’m out muzzleloader hunting this morning and of course I smelled it the whole way here. It couldn’t have been direct hit. Just enough to ad this story to the thread called got skunked. Although in a different way.
 
Jasonc78 said:
On the way home from my son and I’s last stand there was a skunk in middle of road, didn’t have time to stop, didn’t want to hit it and stink the truck up so I narrowly missed it with the passenger side tires had to of been so close I wasn’t sure if I’d miss but never felt it at all. Didn’t want to swerve badly. We didn’t smell anything on way home but, as soon as we got home got out of truck. The damn thing musta got so scared it came so close he sprayed. It isn’t horrible but I’m out muzzleloader hunting this morning and of course I smelled it the whole way here. It couldn’t have been direct hit. Just enough to ad this story to the thread called got skunked. Although in a different way.
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Update, smells it the whole way to work this afternoon blowing in the cabin air. Wonderful. Haha
 
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