Got kicked off my own range.

Skunks are patrolling my yard in full force, but so long as they don't bother or spray my critters, I hold no grudge against them. I have noticed them out in droves these past few weeks and have seen a new baby roadkill skunk every day on my way to work lately. .

They're just lil souls trying to live in a harsh world.......kinda like us.

I had a dog who liked to try and make friends with skunks. One day she got nailed. That broke her from trying to befriend them.

I was sprayed once!!! RUN FAST!

Want to know what a Duran taste like???

Why that dirty, lowdown, polecat! How dare he throw you off your own range? Suffering Sucatash!

Call him Range Officer Le Pew.

Pepe Le Pew Pew?


I can’t stand that RO, he’s always making a stink!

It stinks to be a Range Officer!

CoalCrackerAl said:

I had a dog who liked to try and make friends with skunks. One day she got nailed. That broke her from trying to befriend them.

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Our old Belgian Sheepdog used to love chasing those black & white kitties. Even after four or five good blasts, he still couldn’t help himself.

Stay safe..

Everyone must have a dog from their youth they had to bathe in tomato juice at some point!

Blue Jays said:

Everyone must have a dog from their youth they had to bathe in tomato juice at some point!

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does that really work??? I literally tried everything and the only thing that work was Time Out and Away from humans

Blue Jays said:

Everyone must have a dog from their youth they had to bathe in tomato juice at some point!

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Same dumb dog, two consecutive nights. Both nights the skunk used the propane tank as hard cover for its retreat, so return fire wasn't practical.

Mark_Mark said:

does that really work?

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Gets 90% of the smell (if you really work it in and soak), and you have it on hand as opposed to shopping the next day.

Sounds like some ehem out of season hunting pest control might be called for.

We’ve had 4 dogs sprayed by skunks. Only 1 learned his lesson. Prey drive is hard to overcome, and some of our dogs have it and others don’t. Hydrogen peroxide and dishwasher soap is what we use.

Your backstop is a shed with a forest, not an earth berm, behind it? Are you only shooting air guns?

Had one of our dogs hit by a skunk - all those years ago... The rest of his life, whenever he was wet, you knew he'd been sprayed at sometime in his life... Wire haired terriers are fearless - that dog would attack anything - no matter the size - eventually it got him killed - all those years ago...

Craig_VA said:

Your backstop is a shed with a forest, not an earth berm, behind it?

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Or an inch thick Cor-Ten steel plate.
Jealous? Yes. Yes I am.
All my salvaged steel will only make one 2’x3’.

I’m even jealous of the skunk. I like stink kitties. Of course, I’ve never been sprayed, so that may have a lot to do with it. I always had Golden retrievers that would get it for me. They just want to play!

Vacuuming dead chipmunks and maggots out of my furnace exhaust vent last night, because the stench of death was thick in the bathroom, I like much less. That made me sick.
And now I don’t have Chipper to feed.

Never a problem with mice, I didn’t know my furnace was so dangerous.

Watch out for them stripe'd kitties, or you'll end up burying your clothes. I'd be movin' on too.

Blue Jays said:

Everyone must have a dog from their youth they had to bathe in tomato juice at some point!

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Worse. I was tiny but the boxers got a skunk. Would be the standard story except that they had ripped the door to the crawl space off and carried the dead skunk up under the house.

Hydrogen peroxide, water, baking soda and Dawn dish liquid will completely rid your dog of stink. Tomato juice is not nearly as effective.

Stink kitties, good one never heard that before. When I was a kid, way back mid 60’s, we were camping in upstate NY with my Grandfather. He made friends with a stink kitty and would feed it by hand.

jmorris said:

Demi is right it’s Cor-ten steel “drop” from bridge construction.

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WAY KEWL! I now am also jealous.

jmorris said:

Its not an inch thick but Demi is right it’s Cor-ten steel “drop” from bridge construction. At the angle it’s set at its 8 ft tall and 16ft wide.



I did steel because I don’t have a FEL at the house and you don’t have to mow or maintain the steel like earth.

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is this the stuff they put on the road as a temporary road so cars don’t fall into the construction hole! That stuff looks massive. bet a 20mm will shoot thru it

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I use a target stand I made that has the bullet impact AR500 and the trap just contains the spray.

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I have some short C-channel pieces I wish to weld into a shroud for my round plates. That should contain the rimfire I intend to use on it. With a nice big tray on the bottom. The precious precious pure lead rimfire splatter.

I’ll throw corn out for the woodchuck when I use it. Positive reinforcement.

Hartkopf said:

Call him Range Officer Le Pew.

Pepe Le Pew Pew?


I can’t stand that RO, he’s always making a stink!

It stinks to be a Range Officer!

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Boys and girls note, posts like this are what happen when you have too much time on your hands.