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Funniest skunk story

wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
What is your funniest skunk story I'm reposting mine from another thread to get this started .

I had a big male brittney lock up on point when quall hunting. My nephew and I came up slowly behind him and I watched in horror as the dog broke point lunged in to this big clump of grass grabbed a skunk and tossed it back over his head and hit my nephew in the chest with it. He and the dog rode home in the back of the truck. He was around 13 and his momma was so mad she wouldn't let him go hunting with me again for 2 years. Not about the skunk but because I made him ride in the back of the truck with the dog.

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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is nothing funny about a skunk story. Just so happens mine is the same as yours.Just that I had a setter,And Pointer.Had to come home 60 miles in a Jeep with a full cab,After rasing poiting dogs wy whole life.I will never understand how a skunk smells like a bird.How many bird hunters have walked into a beautifull point.Just wating for that explosion of wings.Only to see that horrable circle, under that tail?.How on earth can those dogs,Have that yellow p dripping off there nose, And then turn around a point a bird?.God builds some fine machines.

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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was going to post my reply, but it isn't anywhere near as funny

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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had just bought all new camo clothing and boots for deer season....was standing next to a tree with my bow watching a doe about a 50 yards away. Just caught something moving out of the corner of my eye...turned my head just enough to see a skunk waddleing right for me. He came right up to my boots and began sniffing...all I could think about was getting sprayed and ruining $400 worth of camo. I just remained still, not a twitch....he became dis-interested and wandered off.....got lucky!
  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    mine isn't that funny either, but I will share it. My friend and I usually back the truck up to the woods when we shoot a LONNNGGG field for crop damage hunts, we then are looking out the windshield toward the field. I then put a sweatshirt down between the door jam and the cab. this gives me a makeshift rest which won't scar the gun under recoil. We are parked over a culvert which is due to an access lane into the woods which has to cross the drainage ditch. I hear something moving in the weeds coming toward me, I figure squirrel or rabit etc, BUT, as it appears 5 feet from me, it is a skunk!!! OH *, I'm pulling on the door and trying to get it closed in a panicked state and can't figure out why it won't close as I am vigorously pulling on it now. The skunk goes through the culvert and pops out on my buddies side and he takes aim at a whopping 3 yds with a 7mm mag. Now I know we are gonna stink, so I am nearly pulling the door off the truck at this point, all while i am yelling NO, NO, NO, don't shoot it!!!! So, he is still aiming and I am running down the ditch on the other side of the truck trying to get some distance from the vehicle. Anyway, he doesn't shoot and laughs hysterically as I am returning to the truck and subsequently figure out that the sweatshirt is still between the door and the cab. We laughed about that one for some time, I wish I could have seen me scrambling around and trying to close that door before I took off running down the ditch. That wood be a tv funny moment entry at it's best.

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    A skunk sat upon a stump, the stump thunk the skunk stunk, and the skunk thunk the stump stunk.

    Try saying that one fast.


    LR
  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Two of them...........

    I was out fishing with my youngest son two summers ago. We were at the end of a small finger of land that was about 15 feet wide and stuck out about thirty feet. Just before sundown we were getting packed up to start the half mile walk back to the truck when my son said there was a cat in the weeds about 25 feet behind us. I turned around and there was a young skunk watching us. He kept us there for about 20 minutes before finally moving back to the end of the finger.

    We finally decided it had moved off and headed back toward the car only to find it on the trail. It turned and raised it tail but nothing happened. We slowly backed away and walked the long way around the lake to our truck.


    The other one occured when I was 12 years old. Most of the boys in the small town I grew up near were at the local high school football field for the annual Punt, Pass, and Kick contest. There was a ditch near the field and a skunk came out of it, acting strangly. We all figured it was rabid. Our local Chief of Police was at present and ran over and emptied his revolver and missed it. A kid threw his
    football helmet at it and the skunk sprayed it. The Chief in the mean time reloaded and finally hit it on the 5th shot.
  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    I was sitting on the front porch last year watching my cats romp around and play when I noticed I had an extra cat. I started to walk over to it saw it was a baby skunk. Cute as a bug, it thought it was one of my cats. would come up on the porch and eat with them and walk right up to me. He almost became a pet though I never tried to pet him. After about 2 monthes he got hit by a car and then I realized how much I liked little Pepe.
  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My uncle has a woodchuck problem, and has worked out a great "system". He sets up one of those "Have a heart" cages,(the ones that were created so you can catch a varmint, and then release it somewhere else). When a chuck gets caught in the cage, he shoots it(I do not think the creators of the cage had this in mind).
    So one day, he looks in the cage, and there is a skunk in it. He grabs his .22, and shoots the skunk. Of course the skunk sprayed, and it stunk up his yard for months. The cage also stunk, and he buried for four months, and then dug it up to see if the smell went away. It did not. The cage was buried again, this time for a year-hasnt been a year yet, so dont know if it still stinks.

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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    We had one sit on our porch and eat the dogfood we had in our dog's bowl. Darn thing stayed there for about 2 hours, we couldn't leave the house!! (I was with my grandmother who couldn't go out the back-way and jump the fence)

    I thought about shooting it, but then I thought again and decided to just wait him out.

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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Juctc.I would give up my next fifty coyotes,To have filmed you and that truck door.

    It dos not matter how bad you are, How bad a gun you are carrying.There are two things that will win every time,A skunk, and a wasp nest.

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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years ago, we kids would put on our swim suits in April and not take them off until October. During one of our trips to the irrigation canal, a buddy and I found 4 baby skunks that had been washed out of an irrigation pipe. Against my better judgement, he caught one of them and held it up by its tail. I warned him, but he told me that he heard that they can't spray until they are older then these appear to be. As the baby skunk rotated, my buddy was taking a really close up look. Then, just as the skunks butt lined up with my buddys face, he let him have it point blank. My buddy couldn't breathe, vomited all over and thought he had been blinded. It was great. I laughed and rolled in the dirt for an hour. I didn't much like him anyway.
  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    Two years ago the skunk problem here in NJ was worse than`usual. Our little Westie had a doggie door in the back door that allowed him to go out into the yard and come in whenever he wanted to.


    One morning in November around 6:00am he came in the house with green skunk urine all over his face and stinking to the high heaven. I got up, went downstairs and got my .22 out of the safe. Dressed only in my underwear and really angry, out into the dark yard I went. Along side of the yard is a row of landscaping shrubby. Using the barrel of the gun, I began to probe into the bushes. Suddenly, there he was, back to me and before I could fire, he did! The stuff was running down my bare leg from the crotch to my knee and I smelled worse than the dog. So I opened fire in that skunk and didn't stop until the tube was empty, about 15 rounds. (When I picked it up to put out for the city to take, he weighed about 7 lbs more than he did before, lol.)

    We both took a bath in tomato juice.......it looks like you're bleeding to death in the bath tub.

    -Charlie











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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994
    edited November -1
    Okay, Charlie is in the lead with the 'retired nekkid cop does battle with skunk' story.

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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    For a while my brother had this thing about hunting and killing skunks, usually at night and usually after a few hours in the bar. One night he cut one off on the road and took off in chase. The skunk went through barb wire fence with a single wire electric running on the other side. Brother crossed and all was going well till the skunk swapped direction. Running full tilt after the skunk my brother forgot about the fence and hit the electric fence at crotch level flipping him over and knocking him flat. Skunk got away. Said he would have prefered getting sprayed.
  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In 1939 my mom and dad were out nearly every night * hunting. At that time she was about 6 months pregnant with me. One night his * dogs jumped a skunk and got sprayed. They had a mid 30's oldsmobile at the time. I guess the dogs and my dad rode home in the car and my pregnant mother rode on the running board.

    When I was a kid we had a skunk run under a lumber pile. We took those boards off one at a time until the skunk ran out. We had a small rat terrier at that time. She grabbed that skunk that was about her same size and shook it to death. There by coining the phrase (One sick puppy)

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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    At a Drive-In movie about 18 years ago I was on a date with a true blonde girl who went up to one saying "Here Kitty, Kitty". I had to yell at her to come back and told her it was a Skunk.
    I swear this is a True Story.

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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Drive in movie.....True blonde.....Now, thats funny.

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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    Me and my best buddy Mark were woods rambling on the Cossatot River in Sevier County, Arkansas. We were maybe 18 years old. My old collie mix dog Nick was with us. Nick thought his mission in life was to rid the world of armadillos and cottonmouths.

    Nick got something down a hole on the river bank. He was really excited and slavering and yapping, and all we could see were his hind legs and tail hanging out of the hole.

    Mark and I took a lot of interest in Nick's quarry, since beaver was in season, and a good pelt would bring about $40. We stood over the dog and waited to see what happened next.

    Presently, Nick came backing out of the hole. He had something in his mouth. It was a full-grown skunk. Me and Mark, well we beat feet away from there. A bit later Nick caught up with us. Strangely, he did not have any smell. However, every 20 yards or so he would stop and gag and cough up a big wad of thick white phlegm. The phlegm smelled like pure skunk scent and it was plenty to get us to stay far ahead of the poor dog.

    I suppose from the angle at which Nick could grab the skunk, the only place the skunk could spray was straight down his throat.

    We never did see the skunk again or find out what Nick did with it.



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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Maybe he swallowed it stink and all.

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  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Whats that under the deck? I had on my Sunday clothes too.
  • 25-0625-06 Member Posts: 382 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    This may take a bit to tell, but it happened to a good friend of mine, and I could not believe what he did. I think you will be amazed and have to admit that it is funny. We worked for Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. in Rolla, Ks. and he lived right across the street. He shared a like intrerest in guns, and came to our house one night to do some trading and reloading. After we retired to the gunshop I kept thinking I could faintly smell skunk. I said something about it a couple of times, and he said it was my imagination. When he opened his Gun-Guard gun case I could smell it good. Finally got him to fess up to what happened.
    Seems about 3:30 one morning Daisy, their springer spaniel, was raising cain in the back yard. He gets a light and investigates. She is at one of the window wells to the basement, in the window well is the skunk. He locks her in the house and gets a rake and tries to pull the skunk out of the window well. In the process he breaks the window and the skunk jumps into the basement. He then panics further and gets a 410 shotgun and shoots the skunk in the basement of the house. They ended up throwing most of their clothes away and laying new carpet in the basement. You could still smell skunk in the house three years later. I asked him why he did not just lock up the dog and put a board in the window well and let the skunk find his way out. Said he did not think of that.
  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About five or so years ago I was on my way to work and notice a skunk walking along the ditch with a small sandwich spread jar stuck over its head..........he would take a few steps the stop grab the jar with both "hands" and try to pull of then walk some more........I stopped got a wrench out of the tool box walked up to him,,,,then thought no no this is too close.........went back to the truck to retrive a "longer" tool..........when i turned around he was just sitting there with the jar off...........looking like what the hell just happen........after a minute he walked off...........I wished the camcorder was in the truck that day.........


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  • NateNate Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A few years ago, my familys dog, an almost pure white mut was out back and decided to chase some deer that he saw. When he came home a few hours later he had sure enough been sprayed by a skunk. So went and got a few cans of tomato juice to try and get the smell out of him, well with that white fur and the red tomato juice it turned the poor old guy pink.
    After he dried off we let him back in the house, he wouldnt come out of his kennel for days because he knew he was pink. Wouldnt want to go on a walk or outside to go to the bathroom unless he really had to go.
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