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.