Last week while getting to my spot I was walking through a field and a skunk was as mad as all get out. It was facing me (I think), but tail was up and it was hissing. I backed out of its presence because if it came any closer I was going to run. It was dark as it was about 5 AM
Just wanted to see what ya'lls experience is.
I've been sprayed (barely), my garage has been hit with a full load and my hunting dog got a face full of skunk juice too. Not fun and very very difficult to get rid of the smell. Tomato Juice does not work either. Water makes it worse and the spray is actually an oil and it will stay around forever, especially if it gets into plastic and/or wood. The best thing you can do is wash whatever was hit by the spray with a mixture of baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, clear dish soap over and over and over and over.... and you will still smell it until it finally just wears away on it own.
Yuck.
I never have, but boy do I worry about walking into one of those smelly critters in the dark..........
i have heard that tomato juice will neutralize the smell,not sure.i think im alittle more worried about these dang ticks.i pull 1 out of my chest last night and can not get the head out.im not giving the emergency room 500 to dig it out.im going to do a 12 pack miller lite local anethesia and dig it out myself.
Quote from: timb on May 17, 2011, 07:20:01 PM
i have heard that tomato juice will neutralize the smell,not sure.i think im alittle more worried about these dang ticks.i pull 1 out of my chest last night and can not get the head out.im not giving the emergency room 500 to dig it out.im going to do a 12 pack miller lite local anethesia and dig it out myself.
Tomato Juice does not work... all myth. As far as ticks go, go to this link/thread and it will help you with future ticks. Good Luck with your self medication and surgery. Make sure you sterilize your instruments and clean your wound really good.
Quote from: bird on May 17, 2011, 07:23:47 PM
Quote from: timb on May 17, 2011, 07:20:01 PM
i have heard that tomato juice will neutralize the smell,not sure.i think im alittle more worried about these dang ticks.i pull 1 out of my chest last night and can not get the head out.im not giving the emergency room 500 to dig it out.im going to do a 12 pack miller lite local anethesia and dig it out myself.
Tomato Juice does not work... all myth. As far as ticks go, go to this link/thread and it will help you with future ticks. Good Luck with your self medication and surgery. Make sure you sterilize your instruments and clean your wound really good.
Bird is correct. Tomato juice does not work. It only masks the smell at best if at all and that smell will get into your furniture, etc if on a dog.
As bird said, the best thing to use is wash with a mixture of baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, clear dish soap. This is exactly what i had to do twice with my gun dog. First time he got sprayed directly in the face. Second time not as bad, but still skunk smell none the less. If a dog gets hit in the face, the best thing is to use Summer's Eve believe it or not and not the other mixture because of the eyes.
It was quite the variety of ingredients when i had to go to the store to buy it all.
thanks bird,were's the link?
Quote from: timb on May 17, 2011, 07:57:27 PM
thanks bird,were's the link?
Oops sorry about that.... forgot to leave the link for you.
Here you go....http://oldgobbler.com/Forum/index.php/topic,3417.0.html
Been sprayed several times when we use to skunk hunt (yeah I know that was stupid) Had to throw many of shoes and pants away. Best thing we found was to use scent-a-way bath soap. Used it on dogs to and it will get 90% of it off but you can still smell a faint wiff if your close. Only walked upon 1 this year and he was almost solid white so I spotted him before I got to close. I watched him dig for grubs while I listened for turkeys.
Bird is right. The best thing that works is the baking soda, peroxide and dish soap mixture. Worst experience I ever had was when my Rotti got nailed right in the face. My wife had let him out in the wee hours of the morning one night. While waiting at the door for him she could hear him getting excited about something. Wanting to save whatever he was after in the yard she called for him and he came barrelling in the house and before she knew he had been sprayed in the face, he busted into the bedroom and hopped in bed with me rubbing his face into the sheets trying to get the burn out of his eyes. He was in the house for a maximum of 45 seconds, but EVERYTHING in the bedroom had to be taken outside to be aired out. Even clothes that were in the dressers and closet had to be cleaned. HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
I haven't been sprayed by one but I almost got sprayed the other day while walking through a field back to my 4-wheeler. I scared the little guy and it ran right over the hill towards my dad who was waiting on me. What I wouldn't give for it to have sprayed him. LOL ;D
I ran over one on a 4 wheeler years ago by accident(ran out in front of me) and he sprayed the wheeler and my shirt sleeve. Skunk spray on a muffler puts off a nice aroma for sure and needless to say I was a bit colder coming out than going in.
Last year I walked up on the same skunk on two diff days while going in and coming out in the dark. The first time I didn't have my light on, but could see something was in the trail, so I turned on my light and made evasive manuvers. The second time I walked up within about 6 foot of him coming out and dang near crapped my pants. Dad was behind me and didn't know whether to dive in the bushes or chamber a round(he thought I must have seen a snake or a hog).
Shot one at the camp last year with my xbow and needless to say the arrow was donated to mother nature.
Never been sprayed personally. I did round a bend early one morning before daylight and run right through a momma skunk and a whole mess of little skunks in the road. They must have went off like a bunch of ruptured aerosol cans. Truck, boat trailer and boat all got painted with stink.
Sprayed this one with two hollowpoint .40's in Texas. Of course I was UPWIND
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Nothing works the smell will go away in time,but it's a long time.Tomato juice will tame the smell alittle but time is the only cure.............
I rolled one with a .44 mag a few years ago after it sprayed a buddy's dog. My truck was parked at least 100 yards away... with the windows down. My truck smelled like skunk for weeks afterwards. I drove with the windows down as much as I could.
According to the "mythbusters", Hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and dish soap is the only way to remove skunk stench.
Rick
i caught one in a coon trap when i was a teenager and walked through the sprayed grass to get to him and had to throw out the boots and my pants.
Sprayed a couple of times in my youth, dumb as dumb can be. We made spears and hunted them one summer in Idyllwild Ca. The smell was awful and I learned to leave them alone. Hate the smell!!!!!
I had a golden retriever who was sprayed three different times by three different skunks (!) The first time he got sprayed he got it right in the face. He couldn't believe what had happened so he went right back at it again. After that when he saw a skunk he thought it was great fun to grab them by the neck and shake them until they died. Darn, he smelled bad. Everything everybody said on this site about tomato juice is right; it does not work at all. What we found that worked pretty well was Gee Your Hair Smells Terrifice shampoo, but they don't make it anymore. He wasn't the smartest dog God ever made, but he's the one I miss the most.
I worked at a plant that had a hopper where trucks would dump sand into to make blocks. It was at ground level and one night a small skunk fell into it. I got the job to remove it and got sprayed. Most of it hit my shirt and pants. I did get some on my skin. I took the cloths off and burned them. I had the taste in my mouth so I took a dip of chew to cover it up. I don't chew but it did help cover the smell. Man I loved that summer job.
I got sprayed a few years ago on the trapline. I walked up on what I thought was an empty dug up and flipped trap, but actually held a skunk who had dug a hole underneath. He shot me, I shot back, it was terrible, I had to strip down in the field and walk back to my car in the snow.