Coyote and Striped Skunk season
Year round
Closed Nov. 21, 22 and through 6 p.m. Nov. 23 and closed Dec. 4-6 and through 6 p.m. Dec. 7 in counties open for firearm deer hunting.
Hours: 1/2 hour before sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset; open 24 hours during Nov. 10-Feb. 15, 2009
During the archery deer season bow hunting hours for coyote, striped skunk, racoon, oppossum, red fox will be 1/2 hour before sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset.
Hunters with unfilled firearm permits may take coyotoes during firearm deer by shotgun with slugs, muzzleloader or handgun from 1/2 hour before sunrise to sunset.
Limit: No limit.

Comments :: 
I must make a comment as a skunk lover that you stop the maddeness of killing skunks..enough get killed every year by automobile,let alone that you have to kill them….what harm can they do in the woods??Leave well enough alone.We don’t want them to becopme extincted.!!! Let the future kids enjoy the Beauty of them and variety of color patterns on them..
Well heck, I’ll comment on the skunks too then. They’re running all over the town I live in. Please kill as many as you can. I’m scared to go outside at night for fear of getting sprayed. They’re good for nothing so wipe them out!
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