Porcupine Hunting

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Originally Posted By: TA17remQuestion:: Why are some of you guys skinning porkys. For body mounts or what??? bed quilt
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Originally Posted By: TA17remQuestion:: Why are some of you guys skinning porkys. For body mounts or what???

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Originally Posted By: TA17remQuestion:: Why are some of you guys skinning porkys. For body mounts or what???
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Where I go I usually don't shoot porkys anymore. If they were chewing on my camp it would be a different story. Yes I used to shoot them & just leave them for the next guy if they want. A few years back I said O.K. to the Son, it was by our camp anyway.

We did hear the strangest sound about a year ago in the woods. It sounded like a very course predator/'jackrabbit in distress' call. I actually thought it may be a guy blowing a predator call. We approached & saw it was a large porky. He ended up coming right down the tree. It would of been a good opportunity for a meal if we had a survival situation on our hands. He got a pass too.
 
Porky's are very abundent in Maine and cause tremendous damage to trees. The big forestry companies like Scott, Boise Cascade, Warehauser etc absolutely hated them and asked hunters to shoot them on sight.

When I had coonhounds back in the 80's it was almost impossible not to have dogs get quilled up during the season. If I had a dollar for every quill I pulled from my coonhounds I could have retired 20 + years ago.

The Fisher which is twice the size of a Pine Martin is actually the Pork's greatest natural enemy.
 
A friend of mine killed a porcupine yesterday.Not with a gun though.......Dodge pickup.It was'nt even his pickup but he and another one of my friends were ridin in the pickup when they hit the porcupine.The kid that hit it told the kid that owns the pickup about how he killed the porcupine so we all rode the 4 wheeler over to his pickup and quills were all over his tires.Then they drop the tailgate and they actually picked the porcupine up off of the road.And I'm not gonna lie that thing stunk like it was nobodys business.I've shot alot of porcupines but never noticed whether or not they stunk but the one my friends ran over shure did.And there was no doubt about what part of the pocupine they actually ran over because there was a bald spot on its back where the tire had takin all of the quills off.
 
Originally Posted By: howlingWithout animal control who could afford car insurance.

This crazy Scottish girl that started all the YouTube babble was using the following as reasons to stop hunting and still reduce vehicle/animal accidents.

Put up fences along all the roads to keep animals off the roads. (yeah, retarded I know. All fences are going to do is TRAP THE DEER THAT GET ON THE ROAD FROM BEING ABLE TO GET OFF)

Reduce the speed limit to 20-30mph on any road way that has deer in the area...especially during Oct-Dec when deer are in the rut so that you have plenty of time to stop. (seriously, 20-30mph for 3 whole months out of they year on EVERY road where deer live near by. this covers like...THE WHOLE USA!)

Some people just have their heads screwed on goofy.
 
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