Just for Tom

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I Hate Skunks

So, I have written before about how I hate the skunks in my neighborhood. They wander up and down the alley behind my house and cause all of the dogs to go nuts, plus they have sprayed my dogs on numerous occasions. In general, they stink and they make my life miserable at times.

To make matters worse, I have found that there are people in my neighborhood with whom I have a connection to (a friend's parents) that feed the skunks, let them hang out in their garage and have probably named them. They live only a couple of streets away, and they are not helping the situation at all. No, these are not pet skunks, they are real wild skunks that they let hang out at their house.

Anyway, after being kept up late into the night with my dogs barking as they helped to protect the neighborhood and take care of their part of the outside and then smelling skunk funk again, I have decided to take matters into my own hands.

I am going to kill the skunks.

Now, if I did not live in the city, a little $60 .22 rifle from Wall Mart would be ideal for this, but since I do, I am going to have to resort to other means. In order to be a bit stealthier and not freak out my neighbors, I am going to have to use a high powered pellet gun. I have been looking at them and considering options and I have yet to decide. I have found several great hunting pellet rifles, but they are only single shot break action guns (basically, you pump it in the reloading action). These are pretty great, but I would really like to have one that uses Co2 and has a clip of several pellets, so that I do not have to reload and can fire quickly like a .22 rifle. I have found several pistols that do this, but not a rifle (yet).

Another bad thing is that the Co2 ones I have seen do not have as much power as the break action rifles, so I am not sure that it will kill the skunk. It may just make it really mad and get me sprayed!

Hmmm…. I am not sure.

Another thing that kind of stinks (hahaha) is that the skunks are most active at night. I have found through experience that I am usually tired at night, so this will be a barrier.

I will have to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated.

BTW, I am leaning towards the GAMO Shadow, but I have found a Remington Airmaster on craigslist for only $50, so the price difference may make me go that way. I have yet to decide. I also wonder how hard it would be to mount an LED flashlight and/or a laser pointer from an airsoft gun (I don't even know if I could make that accurate).

Maybe I should check the pawn shops…