Skunk skinning

[gp13581]

So what's the secret to putting up a skunk? My son's first trapping catch was a skunk which of course sprayed when he shot it. We just held our noses and skinned itbut the skin still stinks. Any secrets to handling skunks? I also failed at stripping the tail and ended up breaking off the last half. Any tips on this? Thanks for everyone's help.

[Tom7227]

This works on dogs, maybe it will work for you.

This odor remover is made from simple household ingredients:

1 quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide

1/4 cup of baking soda

1 teaspoon of liquid dish soap.

Mix the three ingredients together and use immediately. The chemical reaction produced from these ingredients lasts only a limited time.

If you use this formula to remove skunk odor from your pet, be sure to rinse off him off with water. Do not let the solution soak for more than a few minutes.

[The Grebe]

It's been awhile since I skun out a skunk, but when I was active, I skun out afew! I would just put up with the smell...they were worth to little to try to do much with them, other then what you had to do. On the tails, I would split them down length wise as far as I could, skin around them as far as I needed to, sometimes just about all the way, put a pliers on them (In the open hole)and pull on the tail bone....as I recollect, some of them were tough to come off right to the end. I suppose that if a guy was doing alot of em he would find a way that is simplier, but for the ones I did, this worked for me.

Not much for me to do today that I haven't already did...Going back aways with the trapping stuff!

[pushbutton]

just received in the mail a bare bones, not too professionally put together, ozone generator that cost 79 dollars....used it on a recently purchased vehicle that wreaked of smoke and it did a great job in less than a half hour.

[motley man]

Years ago I remember they used to put them in a wash tub with water in it. Don't know more than that.

[jentz]

UGH I came here to find out whice politician your were talking about??

[HunterLee]

throw them in a river or cold pond for a day or so then tough it out, and or you could wash them in dish soap. I just skin the ones that don't spray-ones in conibears.