Porcupine Defense Thread
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- The Conservative part of Ontario
It's also true that if you are hunting with hounds, and you shoot one, the bastard will not stay in the tree, he will either fall down right then, or some nice fisher will pull him down, where your dogs will eventually find him.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.
I know a .223 will do a fine job at about 150 yards. Was hunting groundhogs with a farmer 2 years ago and we came upon one sitting in the middle of his young soybean field, just munching away. I watched through my scope has he let a 55gr. V-Max go. Looked like an explosion of matchsticks. Might be one of the most awesome things I've seen through a scope. It was one of maybe 3 I've seen (other than roadkill) in the last 10 years.
Was hunting groundhogs with a farmer 2 years ago and we came upon one sitting in the middle of his young soybean field, just munching away. I watched through my scope has he let a 55gr. V-Max go. Looked like an explosion of matchsticks. Might be one of the most awesome things I've seen through a scope. It was one of maybe 3 I've seen (other than roadkill) in the last 10 years.
Saw one charge a dog once but the dog knew enough to stay back. our deer dogs run into them all the time. Hell of a time trying to keep a blue tic still enough to pluck quills.
I've witnessed one take 20 shots from 2 cooeys and a 1022 before it finally dropped from the tree. Tough little buggers but a .22 is all you need, provided you have a few follow up shots handy
I've witnessed one take 20 shots from 2 cooeys and a 1022 before it finally dropped from the tree. Tough little buggers but a .22 is all you need, provided you have a few follow up shots handy
Slooshark1
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When I was a kid, about 25 years ago, we used to drive the back roads looking for them in the Spring. They would come out in the bright green fields and eat the fresh grass. My Dad used to "Vape" them with a 22-250. 27 kills in 3 days. Some fields would have 5 or 6 in them. I wouldn't feel right about doing that today but it was fun back then. They make a real "woomp" when hit with that high velocity hollow point bullet.
