Graphic!! First skunk of 2021, heart shot, no spray!

I used to only do head shots and had a few that didn’t spray much, but still sprayed. Enough that it was an ordeal to get them bagged. I used to have the hose set up with a sprinkler near the bait station and I’d shoot the skunk and turn on the hose. It helped a lot, but it was days before the stink was gone. The liquid spray will burn grass too! I remember one headshot that was instant death, the skunk face planted and sprayed a fountain six feet into the air. You could clearly see it in the flashlight beam lol. After observing the reactions of the last four heart shots I think what happens is that the skunk receives the shot and instead of facing an enemy and spraying, it knows it’s hurt and it takes to cover since nothing is threatening it. This skunk is number 36! My neighbor had two other ones case tanned, they are strange looking laying on the table complete with the long claws lol.

Just checked out the damage from the .25 pellet. It went in behind the left shoulder got the lungs and a big piece of the heart and exited the right side low breaking the right leg. Clean kill and best of all no spray!!

Just got two more in the last half hour! Neither of them got more than a couple feet from where they were shot. Both were heart shots again. This time I do smell a little bit of spray, hopefully it was just a small squirt lol. I’ll find out at first light and take pictures. Maybe do autopsy’s to see the damage if there’s no stink. 

Well so much for heart shot skunks not spraying lol! The big one did spray enough for it to be very unpleasant to get it bagged up. I’m still going to use the shot because a lot of the time they don’t spray. I got the chipmunk as it was getting light. Last year a chipmunk built a nest on the manifold of my truck using insulation from around the engine. They never get a pass here.