Hi Folks,here's a fun story for you to read.....
We have had 3 skunks visit our yard this year ....our 4 labs and our 1 foster lab mix found the first one in our backyard in July....needless to say the foster lab,and my big 85lb yellow lab got sprayed,in the face .....either the foster lab or my chocolate female snapped the skunks neck (The choco female is the alpha in my pack ,and does not like intruders) so anyhow we have 1/2 acre fenced off tight for the dogs ....knowing this,I new the skunk was now "stuck" in our yard
....So I,had to open the safe,5 digit combo,open the ammo safe,(find the key,find the 5 cell kill light,and find the stinky little rascal ).... locked and loaded a 20 gauge and found the wounded critter by the fence,and dispatched him to skunk heaven ...and buried him in the woods on a hill .....No one heard the shot of the 20ga going off....see I live in a residental neighborhood,just out of town limits,where I can shoot ,but the neighbors probably won't like the fact that I'm offing skunks by firearms.....
The end of July ,the big yellow dog was sitting at the front window looking outside at the flower garden and started growling (this ole boy wouldn't hurt a flea) so wife looks out the window ,and low and behold there is a skunk digging up her flowers ....now my wife is ******Soooooo she comes and tells me all about the skunk in the front yard/garden ,as I have already gone to bed....I get up, throw some clothes on and boots,fumble with the 5 digit combo to get the 20ga out of the safe,find the keys for the ammo safe ,find the 5 cell "kill light' and go out the back door for this covert operation....moving slowly and shining the light b/c "there may be more than one " I slowly proceed to the front yard and eyeball the garden "nothing" the little stripped cat is gone .....a chill runs up my spine .....where is he ???? I sneak around the cars ,keeping an eye on the garden ,and looking with my flash light and he is no where to be found .....I hope the little fella is not under the vehicles and I'm to scared to look,getting sprayed in the face ,is not on the top of my list .....I keep looking and peer around the hedge and there he is standing there locked and loaded and aiming right at me ! It's either me or him and I take him out with one shot at 20 feet .....I'm safe ! Then I hear,from the neighbors front porch 'What the hell was that "????? I slowly withdraw from the killing zone,and put the gun back in the house and find a shovel and go bury this guy next to the other skunk on "skunk hill" as it is now called ......In the moring I remembered to pick up the spent shell to remove any firearm evidience ......Hopefull nobody will se the V shaped shotgun blast in the sand
Well history repeated itself again last night ......wife states theres another skunk digging up her flowers ......,,,Sooo back to the safe ,5 digit combo,get the 20 ga ,get the key for the ammo safe,get 5 cell flashlight ,and I proceeded out the back door ,checking for extra skunks and this time I got a bit smarter and had wife keep an eye on this little fellow ,so I would know where he was at all times ,before I left the house she stated he was "still" in the garden ....so back to tip toeing out of the back door and looking for other skunks,(there was none) and moving my way to the front yard to dispatch this skunk ......I get up to the vehicles and scan the front garden "Nothin" ???? Well this little guy is a digger and he had enough time to dig a pretty good size hole in the garden and his tail looked like a flower from where I stood .....but flowers don't move like his tail did,plus I am so sneaky he does not know I am there ......I scan the neighbors house(200 feet away) and no one is outside ,and I position myself so That I am shooting safely and wait patiently for the guy to come out of the "Holland tunnel" he is contructing in the front garden.....then his head pos up,and I shoot,he's down with one shot ....the flower bulbs are safe again!!!....then I hear "Grandma whats that noise?" Crap,the neighbors are on the front porch again,w/o any lights on enjoying the cool evening air ....My wifes at the front door stating the cops will be coming anytime to haul me away......so I give her the shotgun and tell her to put it away .....I find the skunk burying shovel and go to retrive the tunnel digger and the phone starts ringing ,it's the neighbor lady up the street that is afraid of everything under the sun, asking my wife what the noise was ....it sounded like a gun shot.....my wife explains that I'm working on an ole John Deere tractor and it back fired when I tried to start it .....So now I start heading onto skunk hill to bury #3 and I have no problem doing this,and return to the house ,figuring the cops will be coming pretty soon .....
My wife in her paranoid state ....gives me my shotgun and begs me to return it to the safe ,and I do as told and of course I wipe of my finger prints ,so the gun does not rust waiting for the next covert operation l!!!
My wife is now all hyped up,and is just waiting for the local cops to show up,and I explain to her that with one shot,nobody will really no if it was a gun or not ,plus I picked up the spent case ,and the skunk is buried ! AND "HER" finger prints are on the GUN,"NOT MINE", I wiped mine off and left only hers on the gun (you should have seen her face (she watches ,way to many crime shows on TV ) so I go to bed ,she stays up waiting for the local police,which never show up .....and the gun is put away w/o anyone's prints on it because I did wipe down the entire gun......But she stated I need to find a quiter way of dealing with the skunks ....you see, a fella 1/4 mile away from me has trapped and drowned 16 skunks so far this year ,and he has back peddled a few times when the trap opens in the water and the skunk swims to safety ......and then one rabid skunk was killed by the local police,and they just left the carcass there ,where they shot it ,b/c it's not their job to dipose of the carcass ?????
My wife thinks trapping them and drowing them is the correct way to deal with the skunk issue .....so I said "I'd trap them and she could drown em"....now, she does not like that Idea a bit ......I'm not picking up a skunk in a trap ,not today ,or any other day .......so I think it's time for a real top quality pellet rifle with night vision and bi-pod that shoots app 1500 FPS !!!
So folks what's out there ,for a pellet gun that can dispatch a skunk with one shot ???? Your input would be appreciated as my wife will probably thank you also ,plus it's another excuse to buy a new toy !
I hope you enjoy my little story ....as I get older this little hunting trips are becoming kind of fun !
see ya Jim
We have had 3 skunks visit our yard this year ....our 4 labs and our 1 foster lab mix found the first one in our backyard in July....needless to say the foster lab,and my big 85lb yellow lab got sprayed,in the face .....either the foster lab or my chocolate female snapped the skunks neck (The choco female is the alpha in my pack ,and does not like intruders) so anyhow we have 1/2 acre fenced off tight for the dogs ....knowing this,I new the skunk was now "stuck" in our yard
....So I,had to open the safe,5 digit combo,open the ammo safe,(find the key,find the 5 cell kill light,and find the stinky little rascal ).... locked and loaded a 20 gauge and found the wounded critter by the fence,and dispatched him to skunk heaven ...and buried him in the woods on a hill .....No one heard the shot of the 20ga going off....see I live in a residental neighborhood,just out of town limits,where I can shoot ,but the neighbors probably won't like the fact that I'm offing skunks by firearms.....The end of July ,the big yellow dog was sitting at the front window looking outside at the flower garden and started growling (this ole boy wouldn't hurt a flea) so wife looks out the window ,and low and behold there is a skunk digging up her flowers ....now my wife is ******
Soooooo she comes and tells me all about the skunk in the front yard/garden ,as I have already gone to bed....I get up, throw some clothes on and boots,fumble with the 5 digit combo to get the 20ga out of the safe,find the keys for the ammo safe ,find the 5 cell "kill light' and go out the back door for this covert operation....moving slowly and shining the light b/c "there may be more than one " I slowly proceed to the front yard and eyeball the garden "nothing" the little stripped cat is gone .....a chill runs up my spine .....where is he ???? I sneak around the cars ,keeping an eye on the garden ,and looking with my flash light and he is no where to be found .....I hope the little fella is not under the vehicles and I'm to scared to look,getting sprayed in the face ,is not on the top of my list .....I keep looking and peer around the hedge and there he is standing there locked and loaded and aiming right at me ! It's either me or him and I take him out with one shot at 20 feet .....I'm safe ! Then I hear,from the neighbors front porch 'What the hell was that "????? I slowly withdraw from the killing zone,and put the gun back in the house and find a shovel and go bury this guy next to the other skunk on "skunk hill" as it is now called ......In the moring I remembered to pick up the spent shell to remove any firearm evidience ......Hopefull nobody will se the V shaped shotgun blast in the sand Well history repeated itself again last night ......wife states theres another skunk digging up her flowers ......
,,,Sooo back to the safe ,5 digit combo,get the 20 ga ,get the key for the ammo safe,get 5 cell flashlight ,and I proceeded out the back door ,checking for extra skunks and this time I got a bit smarter and had wife keep an eye on this little fellow ,so I would know where he was at all times ,before I left the house she stated he was "still" in the garden ....so back to tip toeing out of the back door and looking for other skunks,(there was none) and moving my way to the front yard to dispatch this skunk ......I get up to the vehicles and scan the front garden "Nothin" ???? Well this little guy is a digger and he had enough time to dig a pretty good size hole in the garden and his tail looked like a flower from where I stood .....but flowers don't move like his tail did,plus I am so sneaky he does not know I am there ......I scan the neighbors house(200 feet away) and no one is outside ,and I position myself so That I am shooting safely and wait patiently for the guy to come out of the "Holland tunnel" he is contructing in the front garden.....then his head pos up,and I shoot,he's down with one shot ....the flower bulbs are safe again!!!....then I hear "Grandma whats that noise?" Crap,the neighbors are on the front porch again,w/o any lights on enjoying the cool evening air ....My wifes at the front door stating the cops will be coming anytime to haul me away......so I give her the shotgun and tell her to put it away .....I find the skunk burying shovel and go to retrive the tunnel digger and the phone starts ringing ,it's the neighbor lady up the street that is afraid of everything under the sun, asking my wife what the noise was ....it sounded like a gun shot.....my wife explains that I'm working on an ole John Deere tractor and it back fired when I tried to start it .....So now I start heading onto skunk hill to bury #3 and I have no problem doing this,and return to the house ,figuring the cops will be coming pretty soon .....My wife in her paranoid state ....gives me my shotgun and begs me to return it to the safe ,and I do as told and of course I wipe of my finger prints ,so the gun does not rust waiting for the next covert operation l!!!
My wife is now all hyped up,and is just waiting for the local cops to show up,and I explain to her that with one shot,nobody will really no if it was a gun or not ,plus I picked up the spent case ,and the skunk is buried ! AND "HER" finger prints are on the GUN,"NOT MINE", I wiped mine off and left only hers on the gun (you should have seen her face (she watches ,way to many crime shows on TV ) so I go to bed ,she stays up waiting for the local police,which never show up .....and the gun is put away w/o anyone's prints on it because I did wipe down the entire gun......But she stated I need to find a quiter way of dealing with the skunks ....you see, a fella 1/4 mile away from me has trapped and drowned 16 skunks so far this year ,and he has back peddled a few times when the trap opens in the water and the skunk swims to safety ......and then one rabid skunk was killed by the local police,and they just left the carcass there ,where they shot it ,b/c it's not their job to dipose of the carcass ?????
My wife thinks trapping them and drowing them is the correct way to deal with the skunk issue .....so I said "I'd trap them and she could drown em"....now, she does not like that Idea a bit ......I'm not picking up a skunk in a trap ,not today ,or any other day .......so I think it's time for a real top quality pellet rifle with night vision and bi-pod that shoots app 1500 FPS !!!
So folks what's out there ,for a pellet gun that can dispatch a skunk with one shot ???? Your input would be appreciated as my wife will probably thank you also ,plus it's another excuse to buy a new toy !
I hope you enjoy my little story ....as I get older this little hunting trips are becoming kind of fun !
see ya Jim
