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Need to move cattle thru this gate crossing this morning Stinky situation. It's trapped but still alive.

O.G. said:

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.22 to the head from a good distance.....come back and get your trap later....WAY later.

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Have caught a few in Duke's traps, targeting raccoons.

One point of clarification... make sure you're upwind when you shoot it! Parked my ranch truck downwind of one once when I when to shoot it, and the truck took a while to clear the smell, even being 30-40 yards away!

And you don't have to wait too long. I shoot them and come back in a couple of hours, wearing nitrile gloves.

O.G. said:

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.22 to the head from a good distance.....come back and get your trap later....WAY later.

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Had to choose between truck guns .308 and 12 gauge with 4 lead. The 12 worked fine from 20 yards but it did get off a final stink somehow. Was interesting that a Caracara was there early this morning trying to get the live skunk but after it was dispatched, the Caracara left and buzzards moved in.
The break away roping looks too easy. They should try a mad one with horns.

O.G. said:

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.22 to the head from a good distance.....come back and get your trap later....WAY later.

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Will spray every time with a headshot. A shot to heart/lungs with low velocity.22LR (or 22 short if you have it) will often result without spray. Of course he may have already sprayed when trap snapped.

RM76 said:

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O.G. said:

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.22 to the head from a good distance.....come back and get your trap later....WAY later.

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Will spray every time with a headshot. A shot to heart/lungs with low velocity.22LR (or 22 short if you have it) will often result without spray. Of course he may have already sprayed when trap snapped.

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Makes sense. I swear there weren't as many of them around when I was a kid in the 70s/80s. So I only shot a handfull or so of them total.

Not sure where you were in the 70s/80s but I was doing a lot of trapping every year from the late 60s to mid 80s and caught plenty of skunks. That's how I ended up testing the various methods for dispatching. Think I tried all the methods except for the long pole injection method, which is what most professionals use I think. Basically same principle whereby there is no shock to nervous system and animal doesn't realize the shock is lethal until it is too late.

Caracara are like the undertaker in an old western movie after a gunfight, appear out of nowhere while the body is still warm.

RM76 said:

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Not sure where you were in the 70s/80s but I was doing a lot of trapping every year from the late 60s to mid 80s and caught plenty of skunks. That's how I ended up testing the various methods for dispatching. Think I tried all the methods except for the long pole injection method, which is what most professionals use I think. Basically same principle whereby there is no shock to nervous system and animal doesn't realize the shock is lethal until it is too late.

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Brownwood area. Could have just been geographical, but I only remember seeing a handful out in the pasture.

Survived a conibear? What was your target and bait?