NOOOOOOO Booker NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Well Chuck, you have to understand that this was back in the mid '60's. Muskrats were going for about $.75 and Skunk were $1.50. Everything was fine with the first one I skinned.........across the road and downwind of the house. The second one I was out in the woods but also in a hurry so I slipped at the wrong time. There is absolutely nothing as intense as straight skunk up your nose from 12" away.

I had some in multiple jars one time and saw an unsuspecting Chinese house guest of ours take a BIG wiff of it - funniest damn thing I've ever seen. Boy was I in trouble when I confessed to suggesting he smell it. He thought he was going to die LOL. God I laugh everytime I think about it.
 
Hey Tom,
Just think of all the funny things you could do with that vest . . .

It could keep the traveling decoy warm for the next hunter,

You could sell it as "lightly used" on the Fuge,

You could take it to school and hide it in the teachers' lounge,

Hmmmmmmmm . . . what else?

Glad you had a good opener. We did too . . . for a change!

Later,
NR
 
He was able to sleep in the camper with me that night. Still a whiff now and then but not the horror story I have heard.
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Tom,

I hear tell that old mountain men were able to skin a skunk alive, with out the smell bothering them, either. 'Course the mountain men were a little rank themselves. :>) :>)

Dave,
My Alaskan hunting partner from the 60's was like that. In fact, his nickname back home in Colorado was "Skunky"! He told me of the many times when he ran his trap line of catching skunks. Like he said, they were worth a few bucks back in the 40's and 50's. He was born in 1930.
Al
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Tom,
I can hardly wait to see the pictures of the area. Sounds like a place I should know from the 50's. Good for you. I'm sure glad you had fun and a great opener.
Al
 
Al. GOOD NEWS. I found the pics in an intermediate file? between the camera and the file, now I need to try to get them downsized to post. You might recognize this place, it is not a secret like my "other place";-)

Nick, You do have a bit of the devil in you. I like it. The vest could travel some w/ Dr. Mallard until the P.O. checked for hazards and then it could be burned. "Slightly used!!" yuk yuk. But I use the staff kitchen/lunchroom too. It is lucky my wife is out of town for a bit or Booker could be camping out in the back yard.
 
Instead of giving a detention or what every kind of punishment you have at school, you could make your student wear the vest around school for a day!! Man do I have a few that I would use it on!!

On another note. We ran into a family of otters sunday morning. I managed to keep Kodiak in the canoe as the played and munched on crawfish less then 20ft away. It was pretty cool. I got some good pictues but also in the process of shrinking them. But we didn't get any ducks. Tried to avoid all the crazy on the big marshes and also avoided the ducks.
 
Pat, First off I teach adults who probably wouldn't take too well to wearing a DOG VEST that stinks like skunk. I do hear you though, I have put in my time teaching secondary. You probably got my vest mixed up with Dave's story about the vest that never was to be.
 
Well Tom let me tell you about my weekend

I was suppose to go hunting on Saturday but had a bit of a sore throat and figure I would be better off staying home winterize my outboard, cut the grass and build up some honey do list credits. Plus I figured Sunday would be a better day since the Vikings were playing- maybe the woods would be less crowded.
Sunday started off as a perfect day 49 degrees and sunny. I got to my first spot no other cars -again perfect. Got my gear together, let Rollie out of his kennel. He jumped out of his kennel took care of his business and was ready to rock. Less than 500 yards into the popple thicket I can hear his collar starting to beep- sweet today is going to be a good day. At this point I am 20 yards from him Is it going to be a woodcock ? a grouse?. The beeping stops and is replaced by full tilt growling,fighting and the sound of general choas. By the time I got over to see what is going on, it’s too late, Mr. Rollie got himself a porcupine Mother@#$!ker. His mouth tongue and throat are full of quills. The inside of his mouth looks like a freaking porcupine. I am thinking he’s going to suffocate. I get him down and start pulling quills out of his mouth with a leather man. I worked on him for a couple minutes and decided to get him back to the truck and find a vet. Back at the truck I took another try at getting quills out for as long as I can hold him down but I am by myself and he’s not to happy. I am thinking at this point I am doing more harm than good. I put him in his kennel –which he went in right away but he’s thrashing around still trying to get those quills out. I need a vet and I don’t know really where I am. Its 2 ½ hours to the University of Minnesota ‘s emergency vet clinic. I call a buddy of mine that lives in the area who luckily picks up the phone at 8am on a Sunday morning. I tell him the story and he said he will call me back with a vet’s number. Mean time I head back to the highway toward the nearest town. Before I am even off the gravel my buddy calls me back and has found a vet that’s 20 minutes away and is waiting for me.
The vet takes one look at Rollie and escorts us back to an examination room asks me what I want to do- of course I want to remove the quills from my dog. Doc says I’ll get to work on him right away should take an hour and will cost about $350. I go and wait in the truck 2 hours later the vet comes out and gets me says he got out the quills the best he could and took a little longer than usual gave him a week’s worth of steroids and 10 days worth of antibiotic $550.
The Vet assistant brings out Rollie and he looks pretty good still pretty doped up. I get him home and give him a quick inspection his lips a swollen and he definitely not his wiggly self. I fixed him a bowl of canned food and some Pedi-a-lit electrolytes- as Tony Soprano would say what are you gonna do
Good news I did not find a single tick on the dog or my self
 
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Rob, I'll take a bit of stink over them damn quills. Now I know for sure I'm NOT going to take both dogs into the woods this weekend. Booker is almost rested up. I'll be in NW Wisc this weekend. I hope Rollie is going o be OK
 
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Hi Tom, and All
The Warden was right about LOTS of skunks for some reason this year.I had one in the garage not to long ago.
I'm not sure just what the process is , but I do know that it works. It starts with a skunked up dog, and a Massengill douche, and ends up with a dog that doesn't stink anymore. REALLY. Just put in dog,skunk, douche into google, and read about it there.We have a box on the shelf at the Duck Shack, and although we have had to do some splainin' about it to guests,we are ready for the next big stink!
More ducks than expected in the Hancock, Lake Emily area too, although we didn't do them much harm.

Have a good season, post some reports , nice to hear from some other West Central MN hunters.

Kip
 
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