How to trap a skunk?

[Sask hunter]

Lung shot a skunk with a 22 and usually they don’t spray

 

[marksjeep]

Conibear an option?

 

[mevertsen]

When we lived in Wyoming, we had several encounters with skunks.

A couple memorable ones.

Dog got sprayed.
Skunk is in dog house.
Dad decides to shoot skunk with bow.
Bad choice.

Second, my aunt was living there now. I was visiting.
Her dogs went crazy.
She opened the door, and didnt have time to shut it before they made it inside..
My God, the smell in the house. Lol.

 

[Irrelevant]

Conibear an option?

not legally.

 

[rebjfan]

My dog got smoked by a skunk in the driveway the other day at o-dark-thirty. Side note, probably the biggest dick move I've ever made, I walked back into the house, woke my wife up, and said, "Don't let the dog in, he got skunked. Allie and I are leaving. Bye." My daughter and I then went hunting all day... I couldn't believe my key still worked in the door when we got back.

But back on task. How do I trap this sumabitch? I borrowed a 30" live trap, but how am I supposed to move/release it? Or how am I supposed to kill it without it

My dog got smoked by a skunk in the driveway the other day at o-dark-thirty. Side note, probably the biggest dick move I've ever made, I walked back into the house, woke my wife up, and said, "Don't let the dog in, he got skunked. Allie and I are leaving. Bye." My daughter and I then went hunting all day... I couldn't believe my key still worked in the door when we got back.

But back on task. How do I trap this sumabitch? I borrowed a 30" live trap, but how am I supposed to move/release it? Or how am I supposed to kill it without it spraying?

It is really easy to dispatch if you can fill an open top 55 gallon drum with water. After catching the skunk slowly ease up to the trap and cover the trap with an old towel and then lower it into the drum. I have gotten rid of several skunks and never had one spray.

 

[NoWiser]

My success rate for my previously mentioned method of dealing with a skunk dropped from 100% to 50% as of this morning, much to my wife’s dismay.

 

[Letthemgrow]

not legally.

 

[wytex]

I just dealt with one earlier this week. I partially wrapped the trap in a sheet when I set it. I walked up to it very slowly and talked to it in a very calm voice and gave it plenty of time to get used to me. I finished wrapping the trap and put a bungee around it. I picked it up and put it in the back of the side by side and drive to a pond where I lowered it in. Zero spray.

I’m going to make a dispatch pole like Gellar said. It looks to be quicker, easier, and more humane than drowning.

I used cat food and part of a pheasant carcass for bait.

This way right here. Hubby uses a smaller live trap, can't raise their tail that way and the drowning, no smell.

 

[LuketheDog]

And I don't have a suppressed .22 so that's probably out unless I haul it somewhere first.

Sounds like an excuse to buy one! I mean, if you didn't piss your wife off too much...

 

[MtsPSU]

My dog got smoked by a skunk in the driveway the other day at o-dark-thirty. Side note, probably the biggest dick move I've ever made, I walked back into the house, woke my wife up, and said, "Don't let the dog in, he got skunked. Allie and I are leaving. Bye." My daughter and I then went hunting all day... I couldn't believe my key still worked in the door when we got back.

But back on task. How do I trap this sumabitch? I borrowed a 30" live trap, but how am I supposed to move/release it? Or how am I supposed to kill it without it spraying?

Helped a buddy remove quite a few from his neighborhood with this trap. It works like a charm with and we never had one spray.

https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Control-Spray-Proof-Skunk-Trap/dp/B0033HQDLW/ref=asc_df_B0033HQDLW?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80608063553907&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=98093&hvtargid=pla-4584207591649657&psc=1

 

[Nick87]

I’ve shot a few skunks in traps. Easy to trap. I’ve heard lung shots are better than head shots to avoid spraying. I’m 50/50 on spraying.

.410 or 20 gauge works best ime. With less spraying. Ymmv

 

[brymoore]

.410 or 20 gauge works best ime. With less spraying. Ymmv

I sold the non spray hides.

 

[Nick87]

I sold the non spray hides.

Yup, wasn't concerned with that at the time.

 

[Khunter]

Can also use co2 from exhaust pipe or fire extinguisher.

We used to call that tailpipe trick ‘smoking them’.

We used to use a trap made from pipe that was narrow enough to prevent tail from going up and prevented spraying. Worked great. Lotsa skunked caught and never sprayed. Grandad had a pipeline company so ours was made of steel pipe and weighed a ton made of steel poise but pretty identical form to what @MtsPSU posted above. never a spay.