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A close friend from Sunray met me where I hunt at for some last minute preperations. I have had four Racoons and one skunk at one of my feeders for a while now and thought I had pushed my luck far enough with the coons. We went to the feeder about 8:30 PM saturday evening to set the traps with some lemon cake, I was hoping this would not be something a skunk would want. While setting the live traps I heard a noise in a tree about 10yds away. I looked up in the tree with my flashlight and saw a set of blue eyes reflecting back. At this point I realized I had no firearm with me. I called to my friend and he had his CCW on him. There were three of the four coons in the tree. The camera would not take a clear pic of them in the dark, so we came back Sunday morning and the fourth coon was not in either trap but the skunk was! Here are a couple of pics!

I need you in garza county.

I already told you I would come out there and help you out Coons or a spike.... whatever you need!

Nice shootin. Bet that trap stunk lol

Cool

huntingwithsoldiers wrote:Nice shootin. Bet that trap stunk lol

He did not spray, the farmer showed me how to shoot them where they usually dont.

Ok your leaving me hanging, how do you shoot them dang things so they dont spray

huntingwithsoldiers wrote:Ok your leaving me hanging, how do you shoot them dang things so they dont spray

First and most important, find out witch direction the wind is blowing. Get as close to down wind as possible without being in the line of fire. Circle the trap until it has to spin its head around to see you and shoot while it is spinning its head. The farmer said this works almost every time, if it does not you were never in the line of fire anyway, you will just have one smelly trap!

This method will NOT work unless they are in a confined space.