At home, 3 summers ago we had a BAD Skunk problem. I killed 7 of them with my RWS.177 pellet rifle. It's fairly quiet and VERY accurate and you can do head shots at about 20-30 yards and not tear the meat up. My longest shot was about 23 LONG steps from the first one I killed (now you know how I got my name).

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