So, what do you do when it's time to get down and the biggest skunk you've ever seen is milling around right at the base of your tree? It walked in at 7:00. Legal shooting light ended at 7:04 here. I can't see it but I can hear it. I think I'm stuck here for the time being.
I went out last week...I was walking to my stand in the a.m. 6am pitch black outside. I see 2 eyes reflecting from the flashlight...Yep, it's a skunk. I kick my feet a little to spook him..He actually speeds up. I kick again, he keeps coming. I veer off the trail about 10 ft so he can go by. There were 2 does standing right there watching the whole thing and I jumped them. I'd stay in a tree all night to avoid a skunk.
That would be a first for me.. did have a coon get rly rly close to climbing in a stand with me once. I would do what it takes to avoid him as everyone else said tho.
Well, it didn't take as long as I thought. That joker walked up my path to the house and I couldn't hear him any more. Of course, I really had no idea how far away he was, but I took my chances. I didn't want to turn on a light, so I lowered my bow, switched my harness over to my lifeline by feel and climbed down my sticks in the dark. As soon as I had my bow in my hand I cut through my little kill plot (which I really didn't want to do but I made an exception given the circumstances), took the cleared path to the horse pasture, trotted all the way across it and cut back up to the house. I wasn't going to chance an encounter in the woods. I had no idea those suckers got that big. Funny thing is, all I could think about was how would I go to work at St. Jude tomorrow if I got sprayed by a skunk? Time to get the camo off now.
I'm glad you got outta there without getting sprayed, would've been a cool way to call out of work though.
Just talk to it, they are like cats and you can calm them down by talking to them. If we get them in traps that's what we do until close enough to dispatch it.
I never thought about this. I would not have been calm if this happened to me. Glad you got out of there skunk-smell free!
