Who would eat a Skunk?

hwyhobo, I was just thinking that if it sprayed it would be almost impossible to skin it without getting that smell all over the meat. Cleaning it alone would be very sobering.
 
Skunks really aren't all that bad to skin but you have to know what you are doing. You also have to get pretty lucky when you kill them or the scent will leak. Everyone will tell you to shoot them behind the ear, between the eyes, at the base of their skulls...I've done it all those ways at least twice and luck has a lot more to do with it than shot placement.

As for eating them....no thanks.
 
I guess it's an acquired taste.

If you practice eating them now, say a skunk dinner every Sunday evening, you'll get used to it and will be well-prepared in the eventuality you're caught in such a survival situation.
 
To make it more palatable, you can get one of the gourmet cookbooks of chicken dishes and just replace chicken with skunk.

Be sure to report back to us and let us know how you fare with these delicacies.
 
mmmmmmm u guys are making me hungry:P skunks smell, yes but even if it does spray when u kill it, i cant see it affecting the meat any. i personally would prefer skunk over spam anyhoo
 
.. in a wire snare?The reason I'm asking is that there is a very large skunk living in my backyard's opposite fence and I even know where his den is(under a neighbour's shed).He/she has raided my garbage several times/making a huge mess despite precautions and I really want to be rid(KILL) of it-no guns-obviously and I'm pretty good at snares.However I've never bagged a skunk before and if it did "let go" as it died then the yard might be fouled for a while.BTW skunks are edible but beware that they are often carriers of rabies and don't dress-out an animal with bare hands!And yes I'll eat one-no food prejudice here.;)
 
i think you had better call a good skunk trapper. i was a government skunk trapper for almost 48 years. never missed a one of those lil stinkers. i shot them mostly out of a super cub flying at about 38 to 40 knots in the residential areas. we usually used a benelli m4 with bb's in them. our civilian casualties were very low... say about 1 kid to every 100 skunks.

later on as the neighborhoods complained we used 1975 Toyota landcruisers with the tops off and the wind screen down. at that time we converted to ruger 10-22's with stingers.

we mostly gave away the carcases to the field workers.... great food source and they were free.

damned, those were good times.... good times i tell you....:cool:
 
That's nice but my skunk is real and apart from liberal doses of ground cayenne pepper sprinkled around yard perimeter -nothing short of my shotgun(remember?no guns)Might try to snare him anyways-can always wash down the yard.:confused:
 
I dont know if i would want to try. If i cought one in my trap and he didnt stink i would try to remove the glands but with alot of fear of breaking them open all over myself. If the glands were broken and I could smell it from 20 yards away from the trap:barf: no way i would try to touch it, even if I had not eaten in days.
 
You city folk sure are skeered of a little stank.
 
Soak it in a brine solution overnight, and it will taste like a porqupine (if you fry them both).
 
Stickbait is right. I'm not sure about other states, but here in Iowa the trappers are always warned about skunks and rabies. The DNR estimates somewhere in the neighborhood of %60 of skunks in Iowa are carriers of rabies. Shoot it with whatever you can from a distance, wait for it to die, get gloves and a bag and throw it away. If you do decide to skin it, be very carefull not to get anything on you. Not really worth it as skunk pelts are worth very little in today's market. In a survival situation, sure, eat it but not unless you've cooked it to oblivion.
 
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