I trapped 30 or 40 skunks in Havahart live traps and picked up the trap from the end carried it to the creek (30 ft) and set them in slowly and did not have any spray. Then I had two in a row a week apart spray me while I was trying to do what I had gotten away with so many times. Shooting them from the side just behind the leg gets the lungs and usually they will just lie down and die without spraying. Remember I said " usually" .