bang_bang
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I got a rude awakening the other morning. I'm sleeping, my mom bursts in and tells me she thinks a skunk is in the dog pen. Nonsense, the pen is chain-link fence, no way a skunk could get in there. Sure enough, one was sitting in the dog house (no dogs in there, just a few pet turtles) smashing a turtle on the floor of the doghouse.
Mind you this is around 5:00am...
I run inside, grab my single-shot Revelation .22lr and a handful of ammo. I rush outside, stand a fair distance away from the pen and pick out a diamond in the fence where his head appears most often. I take a rest off of my car and send a single bullet into his head and out the back of the doghouse. I ran even faster inside....just to be cautious of a spray of that wonderful aroma.
I then put on all of my cold hunting clothes, followed by leather gloves and a .22lr pistol in my pocket. The skunk had sprayed earlier, but thankfully the doghouse caught almost all of the odor (except some on that poor turtle). I dumped it out up the mountain where my deer carcasses go after butchering.
My dog, who doesn't stay in the pen, did not get sprayed, but did provoke the skunk into spraying inside the doghouse. I came out smelling no different, but my hunting clothes have a hint of skunk. I'm thinking that the odor couldn't hurt, speaking that it has to cover my scent more than a little and should act like a cover scent come deer season.
Moral of the story:
1) Never go outside in the wee hours of the morning without a flashlight.
2) Skunks can climb chain-link fences.
3) It doesn't require a direct spray from a skunk to make your eyes water, even getting close to the area the skunk sprayed 30 minutes later can be quite interesting at 5:00am.
Mind you this is around 5:00am...
I run inside, grab my single-shot Revelation .22lr and a handful of ammo. I rush outside, stand a fair distance away from the pen and pick out a diamond in the fence where his head appears most often. I take a rest off of my car and send a single bullet into his head and out the back of the doghouse. I ran even faster inside....just to be cautious of a spray of that wonderful aroma.
I then put on all of my cold hunting clothes, followed by leather gloves and a .22lr pistol in my pocket. The skunk had sprayed earlier, but thankfully the doghouse caught almost all of the odor (except some on that poor turtle). I dumped it out up the mountain where my deer carcasses go after butchering.
My dog, who doesn't stay in the pen, did not get sprayed, but did provoke the skunk into spraying inside the doghouse. I came out smelling no different, but my hunting clothes have a hint of skunk. I'm thinking that the odor couldn't hurt, speaking that it has to cover my scent more than a little and should act like a cover scent come deer season.
Moral of the story:
1) Never go outside in the wee hours of the morning without a flashlight.
2) Skunks can climb chain-link fences.
3) It doesn't require a direct spray from a skunk to make your eyes water, even getting close to the area the skunk sprayed 30 minutes later can be quite interesting at 5:00am.
