Porcupine Defense Thread
- Thread starter TwoTone
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mahony1977
Regular
- Location
- Frelighsburg Qc
My dad had one come up a tree at him in deer season a few years back.
Hotwheels81
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- South of GP
Never a porky but I had a standoff with a pine Martin over a frying pan full of hot bacon... He all most cought the business end of a 7lb axe.
Depends where your at, I haven't seen a porky since I moved to BC from ONT
- Location
- Kawartha Lakes, Ontario
wheelin_ca
CGN Regular
- Location
- Simcoe County Ontario Canada
if it came at you, there was probably a little one behind you
i was playing with one last week.... it ran up a tree, but there was a baby under a log... the closer i got to the log, the further down the tree it would come.
then i thought it might jump down on me, so i returned to turkey hunting
i was playing with one last week.... it ran up a tree, but there was a baby under a log... the closer i got to the log, the further down the tree it would come.
then i thought it might jump down on me, so i returned to turkey hunting
I see porkies all the time out hunting: I usually ignore them and they ignore me. Even been so close to a wild one (I've petted a tamed one at the zoo) that it waddled over my boot without it even caring.
@pinemartin: Like A BOSS
@pinemartin: Like A BOSS
Your doing it wrong.
Key is to wash your car THOROUGHLY, hot wax, buff, the whole detail, you will be most succesful with a brand new car. Then go for a nice night drive, and not think about porcupines whatsoever, you wont need a gun neather.
If theres a better way to hunt porcupine.............or deer for that matter, I have yet to find it.
Sorry, no, that's the second best way to get one.
The absolute best way to hunt porcupines is to live in a home with a few big beautiful trees in the yard, right next to a hundred or so acres of forest. Porcupines will bypass thousands of trees growing in the natural state to waddle into your yard and start eating the bark off one of your prized specimen trees. Then, when you smoke one, he will die hanging over the limb of said tree and remain there for MONTHS, swaying gently, refusing to fall, absorbing hundreds of shotgun blasts from every safe angle as you try to knock him down. Eventually you will see the futility of it, and give up. Seasons will change, the air will cool, the days will shorten, the leaves will fall...and that miserable $&^%* rodent will hang there on display, eliciting snide comments from your anti neighbours, withering stares from your wife, and snickers from your friends. Then one morning, you'll be sitting on the patio in your bathrobe, freshly showered, enjoying a hot cup of coffee, and your two dogs will come running around the corner of the house and insist on snuggling up to you from both sides, and you'll casually scratch one behind the ear...and then you'll sniff...and then you'll take a deep breath...and you'll know that the sum##### FINALLY came down...but they found out about it before you did.
check out this dinosaur that came into my turkey decoys a few days ago. He had almost no quils left on his back and his face was crusted over. I think I did him a favour. 3" #5 1 7\8oz load made him back flip at 15 yards!
His little buddy 50 yards away was pretty cool though. He let him get about 2 feet away and he just continued to eat grass with no care at all, Didn't even have his tail cocked, ready to stick me
His little buddy 50 yards away was pretty cool though. He let him get about 2 feet away and he just continued to eat grass with no care at all, Didn't even have his tail cocked, ready to stick me
Sorry, no, that's the second best way to get one.
The absolute best way to hunt porcupines is to live in a home with a few big beautiful trees in the yard, right next to a hundred or so acres of forest. Porcupines will bypass thousands of trees growing in the natural state to waddle into your yard and start eating the bark off one of your prized specimen trees. Then, when you smoke one, he will die hanging over the limb of said tree and remain there for MONTHS, swaying gently, refusing to fall, absorbing hundreds of shotgun blasts from every safe angle as you try to knock him down. Eventually you will see the futility of it, and give up. Seasons will change, the air will cool, the days will shorten, the leaves will fall...and that miserable $&^%* rodent will hang there on display, eliciting snide comments from your anti neighbours, withering stares from your wife, and snickers from your friends. Then one morning, you'll be sitting on the patio in your bathrobe, freshly showered, enjoying a hot cup of coffee, and your two dogs will come running around the corner of the house and insist on snuggling up to you from both sides, and you'll casually scratch one behind the ear...and then you'll sniff...and then you'll take a deep breath...and you'll know that the sum##### FINALLY came down...but they found out about it before you did.
That was an awesome story, so very true, and hilarious..
