F**k'n Porcupines!

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So I recently went in to my bear stand for the first time this spring (waters have been high here in NB and life has been busy) to do the normal checks, repairs, first baiting etc of the spring bear season. Everything was great with the area, lots of bear sign and not a whole lot of work to be done as far as trimming growth in the shooting lane etc. What was freakin' horrible was the fact that my stand (built with 2x4s, and plywood base, with 2' plywood walls all around) had been ravaged by the damn porcupines! They ate my entire front wall; and worse, there is so much porcupine s**t on the floor of the stand and on the walls that it is nauseating to sit in there!

So my questions.....

First, anyone who has had this issue figure out the best way to clean up the stand? I figure water and a scrub brush as I don't want to use any type of cleaner which might put off a smell and spook bears...

Second, IF a fella was to want to set say, I dunno, maybe a couple of 220 conibears in the stand to get these little pricks; what would hypothetically be an effective porcupine bait? (I only ask to further my knowledge on the animal and for the purpose of scientific research...)
 
Go borrow the Noz dog frum Jay.
He'll find all them there dang porkapines fer yah.
Ya might git yer arse bewtted awf here but think oh the memories.........

Make the floor removable and bring it with you?
 
kamlooky said:
Go borrow the Noz dog frum Jay.
He'll find all them there dang porkapines fer yah.
Ya might git yer arse bewtted awf here but think oh the memories.........

Make the floor removable and bring it with you?
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Son of a ******!!! HA HA, Nos is NOT allowed to take care of porcupines anymore!!! HA HA

As for the solution to your problem... Use a metal ladder stand... Porcupines are friggen hard on wooden treestands!

Cheers
Jay
 
lol....Sorry , but your post brought a smile to my face , and i had to chuckle . I had the same type problem at the cottage a few years ago , and used two solutions . One is to go on the hunt and thin out the porcupine population , second is to wrap your lower wooden surfaces with wire , tin , or thin sheet metal . I wrapped the bottom of the cottage with wire for about three feet up all around . I also had to wrap several trees loosely because of the beavers....it is a never ending battle....lol
 
Ok... so I thank everyone for your replies, but I will add the following comments...

First, I am a little hurt that you won't lend me the Nos dog Jay... I thought we were tight.... :p

Second, I cannot remove my stand or re-build as I have too much time invested in materials etc; so I'd like to take care of the problem rather than change approach...

Third, trust me; I am laughing at this #### too, but I am looking for info to kill these little pricks; I need to know what to use for bait so I can set traps at the stand entrance, ladder etc. There has to be someone out there that knows what these little buggers will go to for bait.

And before any smartass suggests "a plywood treestand for bait", I know already! LMAO :D
 
Slug870 said:
I am a little hurt that you won't lend me the Nos dog Jay... I thought we were tight.... :p
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HA HA, well it would be an expensive treestand... The pic below cost me $1271 for 4.5 hours of surgery after Nos killed a porcupine...

Cheers
Jay

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Jay said:
HA HA, well it would be an expensive treestand... The pic below cost me $1271 for 4.5 hours of surgery after Nos killed a porcupine...

Cheers
Jay

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Jesus!!! I was following Nos since he was a pup; I don't know how I missed that pic!

I hear ya on the vet bills; brutal; let alone when a quill pig is involved....
 
Steyr1 said:
Salt.
They eat plywood and the backs out of outhouses for the salt.
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Salt? Wow, I wouldn't have thought that... Thanks though, I will give it a whirl.

Looks like I am gonna have to check regs and what not with regards to killing porcupines; but either way, I'll be looking for porcupine recipes; I'd like to at least use the animal as much as possible if I am to kill it...
 
Jay said:
HA HA, well it would be an expensive treestand... The pic below cost me $1271 for 4.5 hours of surgery after Nos killed a porcupine...

Cheers
Jay

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Yikes! I had an uncle with two Huskies east of Edmonton, man did those dogs LOVE to go after porcupine. This pictures reminds me of the ones he took when he was at the vet. Why those dogs kept going after them, I'll never know. Maybe the quill-beards are fancied among the female dogs? The money he spent on getting his dogs fixed up every year though... could have had a new truck...
 
Porcupines also eat canoe gunwales, paddles, I had a pet porcupine years ago, he loved parsnips, carrots, apples, and STALE homemade bread. I guess gunwales on canoes are mostly aluminum, in my day they were oak.
 
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One of the guy's dog in our group while hunting N-Dak Pheasants, my dog and I passed thru the same area 20 minutes before without contact, whew !
 
Raddlove said:
Yikes! I had an uncle with two Huskies east of Edmonton, man did those dogs LOVE to go after porcupine. This pictures reminds me of the ones he took when he was at the vet. Why those dogs kept going after them, I'll never know. Maybe the quill-beards are fancied among the female dogs? The money he spent on getting his dogs fixed up every year though... could have had a new truck...
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I used to live rivervalley in Edmonton, my Husky would escape and come back with a goatee of quils under his chin.
 
I've been in the same situation if there's trouble Pointers will find it. And nos he got the worst hit I've ever seen

planemaker said:
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One of the guy's dog in our group while hunting N-Dak Pheasants, my dog and I passed thru the same area 20 minutes before without contact, whew !
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You might try painting the ladder, etc. with wood preservative. They might not go for the taste.

My old Dad worked in the bush near Port Arthur in the 30's and said that the porcupines would come into camp and eat the wooden boxes that salted meat came in.

Years ago, my buddies and I would go out of town to a bush and cook supper in the winter. One time my dog found a porcupine, so we shot it and put the legs into the stew/soup. I can't remember what it tasted like, but we ate it! We imagined ourselves to be real frontiersmen in those days. We could walk right through town with our guns and nobody gave us a second look. I doubt if I would make it to the end of my block now.
 
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