Years ago we were pulling our boat to the lake, it was late and we were going to sleep on the boat in the boat ramp parking lot. A couple miles before the ramp, a skunk appeared on the side of the road. I managed to swerve and miss it with the truck, but the boat trailer hit it. That trailer stunk so bad, I had to back it in and out of the water about 10 times before the stink let up.
Back when I was trapping if I caught a skunk I would harvest the quill, skin it, and save the scent sacs. I would put the sacs in a plastic Ziploc and then put that inside a plastic Folgers coffee can into my trapping freezer. That winter a friend from Texas came up to go hunting and he brought along a brisket that he had smoked. So my three buddies, myself, and the Texan had a big feast of brisket and all the fixings on a Saturday night complete with warm peach cobbler. The Texan made the comment that it would be nice to have some ice cream to put on the cobbler, and I remembered the week before I bought some on sale but didn’t have room in the freezer in the house so I put one of the half gallons of ice cream outside in my freezer. (Can you see where this is headed?). The ice cream was one of those cardboard cartons wrapped in plastic but the skunk odor and taste had made its way inside. That was nearly 20 years ago but occasionally the subject of skunk a$$ ice cream still comes up
Funny stuff! I"ve had a few accidents over the years with it too. This spring, I'm just using a syringe to keep the quill. Hopefully the marker will still be 35.00 an ounce.
The second year we lived in this house we started getting a ton of skunks, so I went on a scouting trip and found a hole they had dug in our hay Field, set up the live trap and I was getting a skunk a day for a while. Would walk out with the .22 pop them in the head in the trap from 60-70 yards back and walk away for a few hours. Come back and took the trap out to the woods, dump the body out and reset it, had a set of cheap gloves I kept outside to handle the trap with. After that we haven't had much for skunks, thankfully.
