how far can a skunk spray

[BigL]

Got a skunk next to my ladder and need it to leave so I can go to work. Don't want to throw anything at him if I'm in range. I'm 15 feet directly above him.

Here's the hunting thread about it.

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6018886#post6018886

[clintb]

About 8-10 ft

[BigL]

If he spays my direction and I'm 15 feet away will I smell like it? I can see everyone at my office loving that smell!

[Rudyl]

About 10ft, of course if he's got a tail wind.........all bets are off

[WCB]

I've got a couple of beautiful skunks at my feeders. Real long fur and lots of white. Would love to skin one but afraid of shootin one of them and being up wind 20 yds and spraying...
Probably wouldn't be let in camp...

[Jaybo31]

If he spays my direction and I'm 15 feet away will I smell like it? I can see everyone at my office loving that smell!

Yup you will still get the smell on you.

[asttbe]

About 12" further than the dog is from it. Always

[Bill]

Shoot it. Bend at the waist.

[Draco]

I've got a couple of beautiful skunks at my feeders. Real long fur and lots of white. Would love to skin one but afraid of shootin one of them and being up wind 20 yds and spraying...
Probably wouldn't be let in camp...

The skunks you are seeing are probably Hog Nosed skunks. They used to be protected.

[2B4Him]

If it sprays and you can smell it, your cloths/skin will absorb it.
I've never shot a skunk with my bow because I don't want to 'ruin' an arrow. But in shooting them with guns, I've about 50-50 experience on killing them without their 'sprayer mechanism' going off and killing them with a last puff of smell emission.

[stickerpatch59]

take your clothes off and throw them down on it, drive home in your skivies, it'll make great cover scent for your next hunt

[kcmarullo]

my yellow lab got sprayed this past weekend Im pretty sure he was very close !!

[BigL]

He moved on. Caused me to take my 10am meeting from my tailgate!

[dbaio1]

He moved on. Caused me to take my 10am meeting from my tailgate!

Now that is my kind of MEETING !!!!!! just off the stand and still in the
GREAT OUTDOORS...... I have two stands I can actually take the meeting from the stand

[Speedgoat]

Wind speed? Temperature? Humidity? Is he in a vaccume? Too many variables to accurately give a quantifiable distance.