One of them acted aggressive toward my wife,actually charged her in mid afternoon...scared the heck out of her,she said that thing looked her in the eye and took after her,had a crazy look in his eye??? freaked her out,she thinks its rabid and is worried about the dogs getting tangled up with it and gettin bit? dogs getting sprayed every other night,its a real problem.Yes sir,yes sir common sense does run deep in my veins I wish I could get rid of the habitat,that would be the easiest and best way to rid myself of this problem absolutely! Believe me ive tried, sigh....The house next door,the original owners made nice,large garden in the back of the LARGE yard,mulberry bushes,all the veggies you could imagine,pine trees,willow tree.They sold to a young couple(full on snowflakes)the gal has fibre mialga (spel) her husband has a bad back and just a bad case of the lazys I think.So they bought this big house with lots of stairs and huge yard.Lets see they mowed the lawn once this year! it is about 3'foot tall in weeds at the moment,the garden area is a full on jungle and this is where the skunks live...never had a problem when they other folks lived there cause the wife and family was always back there working on there garden area.NOw two years later the skunks have overrun the area.Ive asked them if they wanted me to bring over my brush hog and mow for them,they said NO! and she told me I would appreciate if you would remove your American flag form the front of your house its offensive to me.I told them that I work with the (wound warriors charity)and there is a group of wounded warriors that enjoy gardening and such and would be delighted to come over and fix up your garden area for you and this would help with the skunk problems.She freaked out screamed and yelled that them murdering @^&$% will not step foot on her property... these folks are weird!She tells me that I stress her out just knowing she lives next door to a conservative like myself.Yeah im screwed these people are wacked in the head IMHO.Why would they buy such a large home with a high maintenance yard and garden when she apparently cant do any physical work,her husbands back is tore up.We have deemed them the "vampires" cause they never come out of the house they are as white as a sheet of paper and our America hatin SOB's Ive talked to the city about the problem(we used to be county just recently annexed into the city) we are in a transition and nobody will help me with them.So Im shootin the skunks,they have no idea cause they dont come outside and synrod is so quiet with that TSS device in it. :So now you know the rest of the story" as the late Paule Harvey would say.Aint it great to get new weirdo neighbors.
Quote from: Pocketpower on July 24, 2017, 07:10:58 AMCan I ask other then dogs being sprayed , What else are they doing? Our dogs know to not mess with skunks as they get sprayed and all have learned from the first time. We generally leave them be as they do a lot of good for us in our area but I know that they can do lots of damage to gardens , digging under foundations and getting into garbage. I generally try to let things live, I did a lot of senseless killing when I was younger and unless absolutely necessary I now try to avoid it . That being said I think that all skunks spray when they are killed and that I would rather give the animal a clean respectful death then one that is geared towards reducing it spraying , The smell goes away after a little bit anyways. But the real issue is not that you have lots of skunks, It's that you apparently have a prime habitat for them to live in abundance and that you can kill them, but since they see prime real estate there will be others inline to replace the ones you have dispatched. Is there a way after you getting rid of the current ones to make your area less hospitable to them? Making sure you have garbage in cans and blocking up holes under sheds and houses so they cannot den easily made them not so quick to do anything but pass through on there way to where ever they are going at our place. IMO skunks dont have the great sense of direction that a fox or yote does and thus makes the home range very very small. We see the same ones time and time again in the yard every once in a while , they live in a foundation at an old farm house about 1/4 mile away and other then passing through at night thats all we see of them now, They used to get into the garbage and they would wander into the garage at night when I'd be out working on something or enjoying a beer and I'd look up or turn around and be looking at the dangerous end of it lolIMO I think a .22 pill hitting 800+ fps would have no problem killing a skunk quickly and humanely if it was shot in the head @ 40 yards, I'd avoid a lung or heart shot but that's just me. Another member mentioned a spine shot and if you could hit them in the neck and disconnect the CNS it would not spray but may leak fluid from a lack of muscle control, The question is do you think you could hit it every time you needed to? If so then thats an option too. But the head shot is prolly going to be your best bet IMO . Happy hunting, JoshOne of them acted aggressive toward my wife,actually charged her in mid afternoon...scared the heck out of her,she said that thing looked her in the eye and took after her,had a crazy look in his eye??? freaked her out,she thinks its rabid and is worried about the dogs getting tangled up with it and gettin bit? dogs getting sprayed every other night,its a real problem.Yes sir,yes sir common sense does run deep in my veins I wish I could get rid of the habitat,that would be the easiest and best way to rid myself of this problem absolutely! Believe me ive tried, sigh....The house next door,the original owners made nice,large garden in the back of the LARGE yard,mulberry bushes,all the veggies you could imagine,pine trees,willow tree.They sold to a young couple(full on snowflakes)the gal has fibre mialga (spel) her husband has a bad back and just a bad case of the lazys I think.So they bought this big house with lots of stairs and huge yard.Lets see they mowed the lawn once this year! it is about 3'foot tall in weeds at the moment,the garden area is a full on jungle and this is where the skunks live...never had a problem when they other folks lived there cause the wife and family was always back there working on there garden area.NOw two years later the skunks have overrun the area.Ive asked them if they wanted me to bring over my brush hog and mow for them,they said NO! and she told me I would appreciate if you would remove your American flag form the front of your house its offensive to me.I told them that I work with the (wound warriors charity)and there is a group of wounded warriors that enjoy gardening and such and would be delighted to come over and fix up your garden area for you and this would help with the skunk problems.She freaked out screamed and yelled that them murdering @^&$% will not step foot on her property... these folks are weird!She tells me that I stress her out just knowing she lives next door to a conservative like myself.Yeah im screwed these people are wacked in the head IMHO.Why would they buy such a large home with a high maintenance yard and garden when she apparently cant do any physical work,her husbands back is tore up.We have deemed them the "vampires" cause they never come out of the house they are as white as a sheet of paper and our America hatin SOB's Ive talked to the city about the problem(we used to be county just recently annexed into the city) we are in a transition and nobody will help me with them.So Im shootin the skunks,they have no idea cause they dont come outside and synrod is so quiet with that TSS device in it. :So now you know the rest of the story" as the late Paule Harvey would say.Aint it great to get new weirdo neighbors.
Can I ask other then dogs being sprayed , What else are they doing? Our dogs know to not mess with skunks as they get sprayed and all have learned from the first time. We generally leave them be as they do a lot of good for us in our area but I know that they can do lots of damage to gardens , digging under foundations and getting into garbage. I generally try to let things live, I did a lot of senseless killing when I was younger and unless absolutely necessary I now try to avoid it . That being said I think that all skunks spray when they are killed and that I would rather give the animal a clean respectful death then one that is geared towards reducing it spraying , The smell goes away after a little bit anyways. But the real issue is not that you have lots of skunks, It's that you apparently have a prime habitat for them to live in abundance and that you can kill them, but since they see prime real estate there will be others inline to replace the ones you have dispatched. Is there a way after you getting rid of the current ones to make your area less hospitable to them? Making sure you have garbage in cans and blocking up holes under sheds and houses so they cannot den easily made them not so quick to do anything but pass through on there way to where ever they are going at our place. IMO skunks dont have the great sense of direction that a fox or yote does and thus makes the home range very very small. We see the same ones time and time again in the yard every once in a while , they live in a foundation at an old farm house about 1/4 mile away and other then passing through at night thats all we see of them now, They used to get into the garbage and they would wander into the garage at night when I'd be out working on something or enjoying a beer and I'd look up or turn around and be looking at the dangerous end of it lolIMO I think a .22 pill hitting 800+ fps would have no problem killing a skunk quickly and humanely if it was shot in the head @ 40 yards, I'd avoid a lung or heart shot but that's just me. Another member mentioned a spine shot and if you could hit them in the neck and disconnect the CNS it would not spray but may leak fluid from a lack of muscle control, The question is do you think you could hit it every time you needed to? If so then thats an option too. But the head shot is prolly going to be your best bet IMO . Happy hunting, Josh
Forget the skunks, get rid of the neighbors! Time to put that POW/MIA flag up under ole Glory! LOL!
IMO, if your neighbor is scared to live next to YOU, a conservative, that person must be some kind of radical or leftist sympathizer and I would watch yourself. This is a tremendously divided nation right now and the left has now become the right.
Fly your American & Wounded Warriors flag everyday Mike. If they don't like it, I'm sure Canada or Mexico will welcome them with open arms.
^ Sorry David!
Give them some time and they`ll drop their guard.
Synrod .22 JSB 18.1 is what im shooting @ 893FPS 32ftlbs do you guys feel like this is enough to take out a skunk with a human kill @ 40 YDS? Looking for a heart lung shot.Maybe crank it up to 1,000FPS @ 40 FTLBS? rifle doesnt shoot as well cranked up that fast...its very accurate at the 893FPSJust looking for advice.Ive tried live trapping but I just keep catching my barn cats and the neighbors cats so...Dogs are getting sprayed,im over run with skunks on my property.