I caught 2 skunks today. Both in footholds. Both sprayed when I shot them. I actually attempted to get them out of the traps to skin them in the field but I just couldn’t. The smell was just overwhelming.

So is there a way to salvage a skunk after it has sprayed?

Put them in the trunk of your mother in law.

X2 lol

Wash them in the peroxide solution skin remove essence flesh dry done

cut the tails off sell them too walleyed he can turn them in for bounty when he comes to sd for rat trapping!

How do you get past the odor to wash them?

I used to let them "blow-off" by leaving them at the trap site (covered) for twenty-four hours. It worked okay but they still smelled. I started bringing them home and putting them in my creek with a string tied to them or a rock on them to keep them from floating away. Leave them in there twenty-four hours and almost no odor.

I have one in there now that sprayed all over it's tail. Should be ready to hang, dry and skin soon.

buried skunk set

How do you get them home without stinking up everything you own?

The Peroxide Solution kills the smell. Put them in a 5 gallon pail of the solution to soak,then take out and skin.

I’m not taking sides in that discussion, but that’s a good one!

I usually carry a few trash bags with me all skunks get double bagged and tied. Don't be cheap on the trash bags pay for premium ones with smell blockers

Hide em in your Wifes purse

I wash them in peroxide solution then hang them from a tree and blow dry them with a backpack leaf blower. Neighbors think I'm a little strange.

Use a method of dispatch that they don't spray and your troubles are gone

I do like Lugnut put them in a creek for 24 hours then they are good to go for the most part.

Yes peroxide and tomato juice.

Step one STOP shooting them! Learn about the pole method! 100% of them spraying should tell you there must be a better way. LOL PM sent

Lol! I bet they do! As long as it works!

Law Dog, can I get one of those PMs also. Wife not to happy with the smell.

My skunks that stink go in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid. Straight into the freezer at home and to the fur buyer IN the bucket. He takes them out in the back of the shop. Learning how dispatch them helps eliminate them stinking but sometimes they spray before I get there or when caught in bodygrippers.

ON the way!

A peroxide, baking soda and dawn dish soap instantly changes the smell. It foams like crazy but neutralizes the smell instantly.

I catch a few skunks as incidentals in mink boxes in 120's.They spray sometimes,so I hang them up in a nearby brush until my next trip over the line in a couple of days.Then I skin them on the line next trip thru.I freeze the bagged skins until springtime,then flesh and board outdoors.
If you are catching and processing lots you would need a better method,but that works for the few I get.

This works

Skunk one drying off in the shed after two days in the creek. No odor and he had sprayed all over his tail.



Got another one this morning that sprayed. It will be collected tomorrow morning then soaked in the creek for a while before skinning.

LOL Tomato juice is worthless.

1 qt Hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup Baking soda
1 good squirt of liquid dish soap (I like lemon scented)

Results are INSTANT and spectacular

Don't try to save the left overs, the CO2 build up will destroy the container.

You guys that asked get your PMs? They say unread?

The key to shooting a skunk and not having it spray is to hit them right at the at the base of the spine below the head. Of the 4 skunks I've shot there has only been a couple of drops of stink from the gland on their fur. I carry a scoped 10 22 and its a little of a waiting game to get them facing away for a good shot. You want to break the spine and not take out the head it paralyzes their body from there down I believe Rusty Johnson talked about this at the Missouri rendezvous
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Bad advice in so many ways, one that is the spot that holds the rabies virus and 2nd and any disruption to the spine area will about guarantee a spray. PM sent!

Good to know about the spine. I read how rabies travels through the nerves into the spine and eventually to the brain and game over. I dont keep my skunks but shooting them this way so far I can take them right out of the trap and do a remake there is a little smell but no worse than some open gusto or hellfire. Dont have very many here at home so I don't have to deal with them very often but I'm 4 for 4 but num 5 might go off like a paint bomb. Either way everyone be careful I treat every critter like it has something no matter how healthy it looks
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I have my 2 in the creek right now. I will go back and get them in a couple of days and see how they smell.

Use it for coyote and fox bait.

Had some request for the skunk pole set up so here it is, just find a fiberglass pole be it a tent pole, CB antenna, trampoline surround support, chimney brush pole then cut a X in the tip cut the back (thumb circle) off of the syringe and it will slide on the pole don't over cut the X you want it tight.