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help how do i keep them away from my camp

Put salt blocks away from your camp

Shoot them. My BIL shot one today . I hate them things.

I hear they're good eating.


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you heard wrong.......

I eaten a few porcupine and thought they were pretty good,in a beaver sort of way. Anything my wife cooks tastes good I might add.

If legal, trap them. You can use apple chunks smeared with lots of salt for bait.

They really ain't too bad to eat, or at least the one that I got to sample was eadible.

Tastes just like chicken!

Ihave chicken wire around the camp when not there.But have astorage shed they get into.Shot four in three weeks. t hey just keep coming.Hate killing anything I dont have use for but man they raise hell.

Most fur buyers will buy the longer guard hairs if it'll make you feel better.
Letting em "age" until the hair slips helps with removal.
I used to do it when I was younger but I don't mess with it these days.
I still kill em on sight though due to the pain and suffering they've caused my dogs and wallet over the years.

they get my 'dogs', too......

And quills sorted to length can also be sold to those fabricating native American gear.

Shot another one sunday that makes six how populous are these things.I also have fishers around guess they arent doing their job.

I was wondering how that turned out� Any news?

I've pulled thousands of quills out of this old Airedale. He never seems to learn.

On this day, he found one while we were out coyote hunting, ended up killing it and bringing it back to where I was set up....knothead. With him hog tied, I pulled them out of his face and mouth, with a pair of pliers, one by one, put him in the kennel with a large pale of cold water. Next morning in the dark, I got up to go hunt and went over to check on him....he was spinning circles and jumping up and down, ready to go. Airedales may not be the smartest dogs, but they damn sure are tough!

"Pines" are easy to trap in any coyote/fox type set. They also make real good coyote bait.

Scenarshooter you might already know this but if you cut the quills and then pull them they seem to deflate and pull out easier. I found this out while pulling quills out of my lab after he found a porky that had been hit by a swather and he decided it would be a good idea to roll in it.

labs are puzzies and need to be coddled. airdales are tuff. they don't need no stinkin' pre-cuts on THEIR quills.......grin

Poor animals. I really feel for that dog. That is one face full of quills. I hope he learned his lesson from the first time and leaves the pines alone. I had a collie who had a bad encounter with a porcupine one year. It wasn't as bad as that dog, but it must have been the only lesson the girl needed. She never came home with quills in her face again. that didn't stop her from chasing after skunks though. For some reason, the smell was never enough for her to get the point of letting the skunks alone.

I had a Lab that reveled in killing "pines." The quills would go clear through his jaw but he would let me pull them on through. Pulled over 400 out of him one time, including chest and legs. He had so many quills in him, he looked like an Indian medicine man coming up the trail. He was one tough Lab and a porky killing sob.

I think every time he killed one he just hated them more.

A friend had his canoe carrying yoke destroyed by a porkie back in the '60s. After that he always used little salt soaked sticks to prop up large stones and logs. He dead-falled a bunch of them...