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Post by FWS on Feb 23, 2005 22:15:04 GMT -6
I love the smell of skunks, I roll down my truck window when I see one dead on the road so I can smell it in all its glory.
I think its because of all the good memories I have of skunks and what they did for me over the years.
As a lad I would get sprayed on purpose checking traps before school so I wouldn't have to go to class and Mom would say go back in the woods cause you ain't staying here like that.
It also works for getting out of jury duty, but you only need a hint of it.
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Post by RiverRat on Feb 23, 2005 22:23:36 GMT -6
I too am a window roller, I have been sick for a few days now even had to pull up my beaver line cuz of it, but layin on the couch today I couldnt help but keep eyein that bottol of leons beaver lure on the coffee table. I just had to have a sniff boy will that make ya feel better !
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Post by td on Feb 23, 2005 22:40:03 GMT -6
Dad has about disowned me for putting up skunks in the fur shed. lol I told him my truck smells worse, what with that jar of Nelson's still in there. Must have got some on the outside of the lid at some point in time. After i've been in the truck for just a few seconds, I can't even smell it. I think that is a good thing.
I remember my brother and I turning a huge skunk loose one time on our before school trapline when we were in about the third grade. Week single spring 11/2 had him real high on the front leg. A short piece of a log cut down on his manuverability, and after a little jockeying around........by us and the skunk....., we got him loose, my brother holding a stick across his chest and me pushing the spring down.
We normally possessed the mindset of most young boys to kill anything we seen, so we were a little proud about letting something live, yet still more than a little disappointed we didn't get sprayed, cause now we had to go to school.
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Post by bblwi on Feb 23, 2005 23:02:13 GMT -6
Confessions!!! "Midnight Confessions"!! but there are a few minutes to go. My first year of fox trapping while a junior in high school. Just had got my really beat up old car with 139,000 on it and was checking traps on the way to school after chores. I caught my first skunk. All I had with me was my shot gun. I was about 25 feet away, aimed high for the head and fired. skunk died, but I had forgot the wind. I did not get sprayed but I got "drifted" During 2nd hour biology I was asked if I could, no would go home and change!!! I was back for 4th period but always remember that rich odor of the striped kitty! Could not smell the skunk in the car as it was loaded with coon hound and other critter odor from our night ventures. I did not date much or often in high school. I was not looking hard and was not being sought either.
Bryce
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Post by bobwendt on Feb 24, 2005 5:41:20 GMT -6
count me in boys. They call me "the skunkman" in some areas of the country. Thery just say "skunkman" and everyone knows who they are talking about even tho my real name may be forgotten.
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Post by SteveW on Feb 24, 2005 5:51:06 GMT -6
It's the smell of the fur shed that does it for me. There is something about that smell that is like perfume to me. Also enjoy the smell of a good red fox gland lure!
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Post by FWS on Feb 24, 2005 10:17:06 GMT -6
This has caused me trouble with the women I've had around, none of them seem to like it when I slow down and roll down the window and sniff deeply. Then get a satisfied grin.
The last time was a couple weeks ago when I took one to the local Indian casino and restaurant for her birthday. The road was awash in fresh roadkill after a rain (I picked up two nice gray fox along the way too !! ;D ).
There's just something really sexy about a woman in a sparkly little cocktail dress holding her hand over her nose in the passenger seat glaring at me and the two bird dogs sticking their heads into the cab from the truck bed.
I wonder if Victorias Secret makes a black neglige' with a white stripe down the back. Hmmmmm......
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Post by Hornhunter on Feb 24, 2005 11:57:06 GMT -6
I go in there spring through early fall and sniff the lure bottles, beaver castor all ground up and mixed. We're a sick bunch! We should be shot!
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Post by dj88ryr on Feb 24, 2005 12:05:20 GMT -6
Drying pelts in the fur shed....MMmmmm
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Post by FWS on Feb 24, 2005 12:33:57 GMT -6
I'm appalled at the way our soceity has portrayed skunks, to be called a skunk by someone is derogatory.
But really skunks are harmless little guys up until somebody messes with them and even then it's not fatal to the attempted oppressor.
And every other species seems to have some humanoid superhero that dresses up like them and goes off to save everyone. There's Spiderman, Batman, Wolverine and a whole host of others, but no Skunkman or Skunkwoman.
Seems to me that dousing the bad guys with a buttload of stank would be very effective and the costume would be way cool.
Skunkman/Woman would just need to stay off the roads so the story wouldn't end too soon.
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Post by Spanky on Feb 24, 2005 13:33:03 GMT -6
;D I to love the smell of skunks even before i got back into trapping they just have a smell that seem's fresh??
I don't know any woman that likes the smell butt I also know alot of men that don't like the smell of flowers
I have a good friend that is always on skunk probation Mr Brian Roberts, I think he likes it more than the average trapper, but thats ok
As for you wiser and seasoned trappers it's a respect thing for what the skunk does for you in the trapping world for us younger trappers it's just a smell we associate with the outdoors and what we love to do
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Post by Bubber on Feb 24, 2005 15:15:55 GMT -6
I am so glad to hear that I am not the only person who does that. I don't generally roll the window down, however I am not above slowing down for it. The best ones are where they get hit by a dumptruck. The oder penetraits everything. Just strong enough that it tingles the old smeller a little.
We ran one through the swather once. What a glorious day that was. Let me just say that the chevron rolls in a NH 499 in a does quite a number on a stink kitty. For the rest of the summer just a trip to that end of the field would put a smile on your face. I just hope I can repeat that event someday.
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Post by briankroberts on Feb 24, 2005 18:44:39 GMT -6
Like Spanky says I'm on "Skunk Probation" all the time, shes kinda gave up lately though, been mixing bait and handling stuff everyday, heck I'm always sniff'in somethin stinky.....B.....
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Post by MattW on Feb 25, 2005 10:15:35 GMT -6
To start I would like to say that no fur shed is complete without a hint of skunk!!
I'm a High School Special Education teacher in rural Ohio. After being there for several years I've been classifed as the resident Jermiah Johnson. I've had questions about every type of pest from mice to deer. Well last Friday the principal asked if I could help out with a skunk that had fallen in to the ventalation pit. The pit is accesabile from the basement boiler room and is about 8 x 10 and around 10 foot deep. First off let me say hindsight is always 20/20. I had several options, wait untill 2:30, try a cage over the weekend Or use my srynge pole during my lunch/planning period. What do you think the last thing I shoud have done was? Your right I grabbed the syringe pole from behind the seat and away I went. Well everything was going great untill Mr. Stinky had enough. I got a good "pop" through and had just started the process of pushing the plunger to fill him with acetone when up came the tail and a big neon green stream splattered aginst the wall! You got it! Right by the ventalation intake fan! The school still has a nice odor to it one week later!!!! The principals' reaction to it was quote, "well can't blame you, that's what skunks do!" Man do I love rural folks!
I probably can strive to be the best educator that the school has ever had but I will always be remebered as That crazy teacher that made the school stink like skunk for weeks!!! I guess you have to build your legacy one way or another!!!!
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Post by blakcoyote on Feb 25, 2005 11:18:00 GMT -6
I love the smell of skunk too.Something I've done for years(my wife thinks I'm nuts)but everytime I see a roadkill skunk,I run it over,just to get that smell in the air again,freshens it up a bit,and my truck has that odor for a few days.It helps the summer blues waiting for trapping season,and so do the demo buildings at trapping conventions.
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Post by Mud Turtle on Feb 25, 2005 14:32:57 GMT -6
i seem to enjoy it myself. but my favorite is a wiff of backbreaker.
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