New Years Day ATTACK!
This is a discussion on New Years Day ATTACK! within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Nothing like getting "skunked" by a skunk on New Year's Day.
What a read though! I was captivated by it all and can detect a ...
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January 1st, 2013 07:36 PM
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Nothing like getting "skunked" by a skunk on New Year's Day.
What a read though! I was captivated by it all and can detect a faint whisp of the ol' boy's lingering odour.
You need to change your name though. "Hot Guns" just doesn't sound good after the description of your shooting ability. J/K.
Just for fun here's Monty Python's Mosquito Hunter sketch. Your story kind of reminded me of it. Cheers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKlkD-D20OI
"A Smith & Wesson always beats 4 aces!"
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January 1st, 2013 07:36 PM
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January 1st, 2013 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by
Jeanlouise
A lot a bad things start on the computer.
Sorry about your encounter with the (probably) rabid skunk! You write a great story though! I was on the edge of my seat and picturing every moment.
HotGuns---1
skunk----1/4---points deducted for misting
I think that Hot Guns got "misted!"
"A Smith & Wesson always beats 4 aces!"
The Man Prayer. "Im a man, I can change, if I have to.....I guess!" ~ Red Green
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January 1st, 2013 07:40 PM
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Having been stationed on OK I am very familiar with ode-de-skunk a day not smelling one was a very good day, glad you survived your encounter.
Altus, OK theme song Dead Skunk - YouTube
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."
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January 1st, 2013 07:41 PM
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What a great narration of this exciting event! Laughed till my tummy hurt. When it's cold the skunks fluff up. Most of what you see is hair. You most likely hit very close to him and only parted his fluffy hair. Thanks for sharing your story and giving us all a good laugh to begin our new year.
I shoot with a pistol and a Canon. We must all hang together amigos, or we will all hang separately. NRA life member.
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January 1st, 2013 07:45 PM
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Good thing the skunk misfired.
What happened to your EDC? You had to run to your truck?
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January 1st, 2013 07:50 PM
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Much as I hate to admit Rock, it was laying on top of my computer cabinet. I'm thinking that Sig would have been easier to shoot up close and personal like that.
It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb...
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January 1st, 2013 07:52 PM
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I really am so sorry for you. I'm glad you're ok.
But, am I a bad person for laughing so hard I have tears rolling down my face?
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January 1st, 2013 07:53 PM
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Well, look on the bright side - the rest of the year has to smell better.
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January 1st, 2013 07:59 PM
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That was hilarious, HotGuns!!!
Thanks for the laughs, I needed that.
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January 1st, 2013 08:08 PM
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LOL!LOL!LOL!LOL!LOL!
Look at it this way. You can check that of your ToDo list for the year. It's always good to get some things done early!
"Mind own business"
"Always cut cards"
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January 1st, 2013 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by
boricua
LOL I'm sorry. This is the best thriller I've read in the past six months. LOL.

Originally Posted by
BillK01
Lol. I see what you did there!

Originally Posted by
rocky
Well that stinks. At least you got him , so no more terrorizing the area.

Originally Posted by
Rock and Glock
I am in tears..........
Glad you survived. Your nose.......who knows..............
^^^^^^YEP^^^^^^^^^^^
A few weeks ago, our dog ran out when the wife came home from work(apprx midnight) and got really whacked by one.
The whole garage and dog, all the bedding and 1/2 the house smelled for 3-4 weeks, even after she was washed and all the dog bedding thrown out.
If you have a live trap, Chocolate, or Marshmallows really seem to atract them.
I used chocolate years ago, and caught 3 in 2.5 weeks.
I think next spring I will begin baiting for them again.
Skunks suck .
HotGuns,
Glad he didn't get the worst of you, and good on you thinking and adapting to the "Fight".
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British, He shot them!
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." -- Ernest Benn
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January 1st, 2013 08:54 PM
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You're lucky. One good hit and you'd have been sentenced to isolation for a while. Anyone who's never been close to a fresh skunk shot does not want to know what they're missing!

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January 1st, 2013 08:57 PM
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Great story! Good way to start the New Year - those of us reading, that is. There really is little else in nature that stinks as bad as skunk juice, up close and personal.
I dealt with a rabid skunk a while back; choice of weapons was a 20 gauge or a .22 pistol, and I elected the latter. I hoped a .22 Stinger to the brain would interrupt the neural synapses enough to prevent that last throes-of-death discharge. My aim was true and the shot went neatly crosswise ear-to-ear through the sick little bugger's head, but - he still got a massive last shot off. He didn't get me, but he soaked the ground and it was days before the stink subsided. It pains me even to think about it!
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January 1st, 2013 09:07 PM
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New Years Day ATTACK!
😂 That brought tears to my eyes!
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January 1st, 2013 09:33 PM
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I'm crying over here! That actually made my hand feel better!
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i was wearing a wool fleece jacket while this battle raged on. as soon as i walked in the house, my wife wrinkled up her