What animal eats Porcupine ?

I read an article once how how to dress out a porcupine safely. So I just had to go and try it. Its been awhile but the basics I remember entailed beginning with the porky feet up, slit the belly and remove hide as you roll the critter one way only in a complete circle. The quills are contained that way. Never got a quill in my hand.

As I recall it tasted pretty good and my family thought so too. Of course we ate racoons and woodchucks back then too. My kids thought it was great at the time. Sounds major "hillbilly" now but didn't seem so at the time. Eating corn fed coons and chucks grazing the same fields with the beef cattle just seemed OK. Only had .22 rimfire for everything varmint back then.
 
While fly-in hunting in Norhtern B.C., I encountered few, noisy porcupines, who went about their business as if nothing bothered them, in broad daylight.

Always wondered who would eat those critters, with build in tooth picks, out there in that big and wild restaurant, were everybody eats everybody. I did not know that they make at tasty , human fare. Thanks for the info.
 
G P said:
What is this animal you refer to as "fishers"?
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I dressed a porci just the other day; bit of a pain in the a$$ but pretty doable. the only thing i have found is if your planning making a meal out of it, its not really worth it with the tiny amount of meat on him, he was not a tiny guy and i got about the same amount as i would get off a grouse. He'll just be added to the wild game variety stew.
 
G P said:
What is this animal you refer to as "fishers"?
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Big black weasels, 2' long and as thick as your arm. Nice fur. Eat most everything, including fish.

The weasel family, from small to large, runs 'weasel' (aka ermine), Mink, Marten (aka Sable), Fisher, & Wolverine.

I'm not sure but what the common shrew might be on the 'small end' of that series, and Michael Ignatieff on the big end, and I might even have missed one in the middle. (besides Taliban Jack).:D
 
Many, many years ago, a friend and I were out in the wilds (probably a mile or two out of town:p) cooking up a stew. My dog started barking up a storm. Lo and behold - a porcupine! We shot it with my "big game" Model 39 and skinned it enough to get the legs off and into the stew. IIRC, it sort of tasted like boiled chicken. I remember it being good, anyway. We thought we were pretty smart!! Of course, we heard that they were protected, so that starving adventurers such as us could easily kill one when we ran out of ammunition, but we were able to justify it at the time.:p

I came upon two of them up in some willows one time nearly as many years back, but these two were getting around to something, I think, as they were making noises that sounded like someone was torturing a duck!!Unbelievable racket!!

There are loads of porcupines around here, and a goodly number get smoked on the roads. They sure do wreak havoc with some dogs.
 
You guys are just being silly. Nothing eats porcupines, drunk people, um, well just read this:

Back in 1984, I worked as a security guard in an Idaho hospital. One of my duties was to assist the Emergency Room staff with difficult patients.

Late one Saturday night, I was paged to get to the Emergency Room STAT. As I came rushing down the corridor, I could hear increasingly loud screaming, but curiously, also laughter. I rounded the corner and saw the head nurse leaning against the wall, holding a pan full of syringes and laughing so hard she was crying.

The ambulance had just brought in a very drunken individual, wearing nothing but a shirt and a bloody towel around his waist. He was too intoxicated and in too much pain to say what he had been doing, but his entire crotch area was filled with porcupine quills. It took the doctor the better part of three hours to remove them.
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this reminds me of a funny story. My dads friend had real problems with porcupines eatting bark off trees and then one day one chewed a bunch of wires off his car in his laneway. So we are sitting on his back deck one day when he jumps up and runs inside. Comes back out about a minute later holding his .308 and with a big smurk on his face.

porcupine is about 60 feet up in a pine tree and the retard goes and stands almost directly below it and fires! well lets just say a lot of cursing went on after that. He came back to the deck covered from head to his waste in porcupine guts and blood. Man did we ever laugh.
 
I've heard say that porkies are protected?, for the sole purpose of being easy to kill with a stick if you're lost in the wilderness, and have to survive.

I know they become unprotected when caught chewing on you're cedar strip canoe or paddles.:redface:

Never been lost in the woods and needing a good bush feed though.
And even when I was kinda wandering, I've never come across a porcupine..:D

Prolly taste like beaver. They both eat wood, and have made sausage from a few Beaver I've trapped. Really good actually.:)
 
7mmlefty said:
And even when I was kinda wandering, I've never come across a porcupine..:D
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I've got a pet porcupine. In the Winter I like to take walks in the river valley and there's one who will climb to the top of the skinniest little tree. Damn near every Morning I went down, he'd be sitting up there. I always walked up to him, said good Morning and stared at him a little. He was never bothered by me being there and I just left him be. I never took a picture though, my camara froze down there once and I've been too affraid to take it out that long in the cold again. :redface:
 
Killed one and ate it while on a survival ex with the military. Didn't like it too much but they are and easy to catch so less energy spent.:D
 
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