Skunks
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06/19/22 09:36 PM
06/19/22 09:36 PM
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Joined: Apr 2020
Posts: 2,092 NB, Canada
MySide 🦝
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Posts: 2,092
NB, Canada
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How do you keep them outta your coyote / fox sets?
All for the Greater Glory of God
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Re: Skunks
[Re: MySide 🦝]
#7608717
06/19/22 11:17 PM
06/19/22 11:17 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,960 Northern Nevada
Bob
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Northern Nevada
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I don’t. Catching a skunk in a coyote set is always a good thing on my line. Skunk remakes are deadly on canines
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: Skunks
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#7608755
06/20/22 04:21 AM
06/20/22 04:21 AM
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Joined: Mar 2020
Posts: 7,368 W NY
Turtledale
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W NY
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Love them skunks, make more money on them than coyotes here, lot easier to skin and imo smell better lol. But if you don't want them Monster Toms has it right 3 to 4 lbs pan tension.
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Re: Skunks
[Re: ToCatchAPredator]
#7608877
06/20/22 09:57 AM
06/20/22 09:57 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 63,123 Minnesota
330-Trapper
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Set a few dps near your sets and bait with persimmons, hopefully catch the skunks before they make it to your dirt holes/flat sets. Worst case like they said, catching a skunk in your set will actually help as an attractant. I've used dps for years using a persimmon paste bait and have never caught anything but coons...my target and reason for the DP s I'd set up some skunk sets afore hand and thin them out...or raise pan pressure like others have said ^^
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Re: Skunks
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#7608959
06/20/22 12:39 PM
06/20/22 12:39 PM
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,523 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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Skunks are a moneymaker why not harvest them if you are already trapping other species?Important to maximize return in this market to offset your expenses. There are sets and baits that will get skunks and keep them out of specific sets made for other species.
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Re: Skunks
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#7608960
06/20/22 12:41 PM
06/20/22 12:41 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 23,854 Wisconsin
The Beav
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$12.00 skunks versus $2.00 coyotes. Make all your best coyote sets In skunk locations and your good to go.
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Re: Skunks
[Re: The Beav]
#7608970
06/20/22 12:52 PM
06/20/22 12:52 PM
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Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 5,526 West Central MN
20scout
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$12.00 skunks versus $2.00 coyotes. Make all your best coyote sets In skunk locations and your good to go. $12 skunks? They where going for as high as $25 earlier this year plus quill.
Last edited by 20scout; 06/20/22 12:53 PM.
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Re: Skunks
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#7609043
06/20/22 03:01 PM
06/20/22 03:01 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 29,894 williamsburg ks
danny clifton
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problem with more pan tensions is dug out bait. no fur and still need to rebait. sometimes completely redo it. having said that though i never saw a downside to missing possums. imo the best tactic is multiple sets. if a coyote shows up a trapped skunk or possum will not spook it. a lot of the time, not all of the time. nothing is perfect. good fast trap is nice to have. no need to keep fooling with pan tension. if it gets a bit on the light side it still works. can retune when you got time.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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