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big skunk #7975185
10/19/23 05:15 PM
10/19/23 05:15 PM
Joined: Jun 2016
Michigan
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Trapper Dahlgren Offline OP
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Michigan
got a big one today, had to shake it out of an 8-inch z-trap, 43 inches from nose to tail tip!! [Linked Image]
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it had lots of fat and muscle

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975193
10/19/23 05:21 PM
10/19/23 05:21 PM
Joined: May 2015
N.Y. Mid Hudson Valley
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Joined: May 2015
N.Y. Mid Hudson Valley
WOW! I have an 8" Z-trap. That is HUGE!

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975195
10/19/23 05:25 PM
10/19/23 05:25 PM
Joined: Oct 2014
Wisconsin
8117 Steve R Online content
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Joined: Oct 2014
Wisconsin
Thats a nice one! Do you take the tail out when you flesh it? I pull it, but its a little sketchy.


Steve
WTA
NRA
Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975198
10/19/23 05:29 PM
10/19/23 05:29 PM
Joined: Jun 2016
Michigan
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Michigan
yes I find it freezes better with bone in

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975216
10/19/23 06:00 PM
10/19/23 06:00 PM
Joined: Jan 2007
Wisconsin
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Joined: Jan 2007
Wisconsin
That thing is huge. I've neve seen one that big.


57 years trapping. It's who I am. Every day is still as exciting as it was when I was a kid but a little more work.
Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975232
10/19/23 06:42 PM
10/19/23 06:42 PM
Joined: Dec 2006
Minnesota
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Joined: Dec 2006
Minnesota
monster


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Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975235
10/19/23 06:45 PM
10/19/23 06:45 PM
Joined: Dec 2022
illinois
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Joined: Dec 2022
illinois
Boone and Crockett world record I believe

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975243
10/19/23 06:54 PM
10/19/23 06:54 PM
Joined: Dec 2006
smithfield, virginia
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smithfield, virginia
There's a lot of lard right there!

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975244
10/19/23 06:54 PM
10/19/23 06:54 PM
Joined: May 2009
Champaign County, Ohio.
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Joined: May 2009
Champaign County, Ohio.
Your skunk was packed into that trap like spam.

I caught a long, morbidly obese raccoon packed into a trap like that once. I guessed that when the door tripped and hit him on his rear end, he kicked forward as hard as it could, cramming itself in. When I walked up on my trap, it looked like I had caught a perfect 12" by 12" by 30" coon in the trap. He reminded me of one of those square, Japanese watermelons.

Keith

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975322
10/19/23 08:06 PM
10/19/23 08:06 PM
Joined: Nov 2011
New Hampshire
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Joined: Nov 2011
New Hampshire
Should have put it on the scale

It's huge !


It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975493
10/20/23 05:42 AM
10/20/23 05:42 AM
Joined: Jun 2016
Michigan
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Michigan
yes, I should have weight it,

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975498
10/20/23 05:48 AM
10/20/23 05:48 AM
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Dang, big'n!


There comes a point liberalism has gone too far, we're past that point.
Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975502
10/20/23 05:50 AM
10/20/23 05:50 AM
Joined: Dec 2006
Maine
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Maine
Nice.

Mac



Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975510
10/20/23 06:01 AM
10/20/23 06:01 AM
Joined: Oct 2014
Wisconsin
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Wisconsin
That would be tanned if it was me.


Steve
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Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975521
10/20/23 06:33 AM
10/20/23 06:33 AM
Joined: Oct 2009
east central WI
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east central WI
I'd pay darn good money for one that size, skinned with the feet attached.

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975524
10/20/23 06:36 AM
10/20/23 06:36 AM
Joined: Oct 2012
Wisconsin
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Wisconsin
That will fill up an 8" coon board- what a toad!

Re: big skunk [Re: Eagleye] #7975546
10/20/23 07:38 AM
10/20/23 07:38 AM
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Saginaw, Mi
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Saginaw, Mi
Nice

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975551
10/20/23 07:42 AM
10/20/23 07:42 AM
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NE NE
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NE NE
"Cat Pan Skunk (or Opossum)" .We get them here close to town or on farmsteads with no "good" dog around. Its quite an awakening for folks to look out the kitchen window and see one of those in a cage trap on the porch next to the Cat Pan! Get a few calls like that every year. My biggest - 13 lb opossum. Top Lot at NAFA years ago but they informed me that they don't give certificates or a hat for Opossums. Probably why they went bankrupt!!!!!............................... the mike

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975609
10/20/23 08:45 AM
10/20/23 08:45 AM
Joined: Jan 2023
Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania
Alot of good skunk fat on there to use bottle up that fat

Re: big skunk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #7975611
10/20/23 08:46 AM
10/20/23 08:46 AM
Joined: Dec 2009
The Hill Country of Texas
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The Hill Country of Texas
What a beast!


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