a post in the French blank painter thread reminded me............maybe a stupid question, but do y'all have skunks down here in Central AL? I've lived here for 16yrs now and don't recall ever smelling one or seeing a dead one on the road. I'm from West TN, and we see/smell them dead on the side of the road all the time up that way.

Yes, one of our members center pinched one and brought the nasty thing back to camp

Don’t think they’re as abundant as they used to be around here....maybe due to the coyote population.
I know I haven’t seen many in the Tuscaloosa Walker county areas

Pretty common to see them mashed on the roads down this way especially this time of year.

You hunt with some dumbasses

Your ass is grass. The Chinyse Triad make skunk nut soup and Bills investors are Triad.

I can easily remember hardly ever seeing (or smelling) a skunk that wasn't dead in the road just 10 years ago. Now the bastages are stinking up everything, dang near every night and we eliminate 4 or 5 a year just in my yard.

Swamp Kitty....Pole Cat..... Don't see/smell many around here in East Alabama.

every now and then I'll catch a whiff of one while riding around in coosa county. Never actually laid eyes on one here though.

Its funny this topic has come up. Growing up I had never seen one or smelled one however in the last two weeks I must have seen 20 dead along the highway. They must be making a come back

Got several here in hour north bham...one chased me last yr bowhunting cuz I was sitting on her house 😃

you sure you're not smelling someone smoking weed? I smell folks smoking it driving down the road at least once or twice a week in Tuscaloosa. And more often than not, you can tell exactly which car it's coming from.

I mean, if you wanna smoke it, then whatever..........but why are folks stupid enough to smoke it driving down the road.

Obviously according to road kills they have 2 "ruts". One in spring and one in the fall.. I see them regular but think they are more nocturnal. The State was looking for the ones with little stripes all over them a few years ago. Not the 2 stripe down the back. I haven't seen one with all those stripes in probably 35 years.

Y'all should toss that sucker off into the sanctuary, forget the wind and just hunt. No chance a deer could smell a human over that cover scent.

Nah it's skunks. Usually in the same place where they cross the road I guess. I had enough experience in HS/college to tell the difference between some green and a pole cat

I think the skunk rut is on down our way my friend.

Two times a year up here. One was about two months ago, and the next will be in a month or two.

There are plenty in North Al. I kill every one of those turkey egg eatin SOBs I can.

They smell bad. Trapped one a few years back and haven't seen one since. Though sometimes along the road see them as roadkill.

Not a bad idea nwa but the sanctuary is off limits until the rut starts