Re: Porcupine
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04/27/19 04:30 PM
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Boco
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You yankees sure buy a lot of our worthless plywood and OSB,lol. Come on hurricane season!
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Porcupine
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04/27/19 05:05 PM
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GritGuy
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Porky's are protected in Utah, just like rattlesnakes now, you don't mess with them and you keep clear, there was a time they were just shot for target practice though, now they are just a big rodent being left alone !
Always though them a very interesting creature, kinda of like a land beaver but more able to inflict pain if needed !
Sorry if my opinions or replies offend you, they are not meant to !
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Re: Porcupine
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04/27/19 05:14 PM
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I heard in the old day there were lift just in case you got lost there were easy to kill and find. That is the rest of the story. JMO
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Re: Porcupine
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04/27/19 05:24 PM
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You yankees sure buy a lot of our worthless plywood and OSB,lol. Come on hurricane season! No kidding and dimension lumber too Big round of Applause for Bill Clinton and NAFTA Haven't heard much lately we still taking your trash
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Re: Porcupine
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04/27/19 06:05 PM
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I don’t know where to start.....they chewed the tires off our grain elevator, they ate the floor off the porch of camp, they ate every corner off the stacked logs on the side of the lodge, they chewed the cdx plywood from every deer stand, vet bills for 9 bird dogs stuck with quills, ate the brake hose off my son’s car. All totaled, well over $20,000 in damage. Not counting the value of trees that were damaged.
Other than that, I guess they seemed harmless enough.
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Re: Porcupine
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04/27/19 08:15 PM
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According to the book COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN MAN, they are the only mammal in north America that doesn't have a pathogen that can be transmitted to humans even if eaten raw. I have often wondered what the regular operator of the D9, that I found the book in, was trying to look up lol. I do know that several indigenous people consider them highly edible wherever they live. I will eat one, one of these days if I can get a young one.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: Porcupine
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04/27/19 08:54 PM
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You will see that up here too. The dog people want them all dead. The thing is, the dog people are well heeled, and don't live here, they just visit at a certain time of year. I let porcupines live, and they'll infest a jack pine forest, kill the trees and force the DNR to sell the wood, lol. They are a part of the forest. I am as diehard of a bird dogger as you will likely ever meet. I gives most porkies a pass when my dogs find them. Not the porcupines fault.
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Re: Porcupine
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04/27/19 09:14 PM
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Well, I have little use for porcupines, have had dogs quilled, etc. They find my wolverine cubbies, too. I still don't kill them because I can.
Just doing what I want now.
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Re: Porcupine
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04/28/19 09:00 AM
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My cousin and I shot lots of them out of my grandparents apple trees 50 years ago, now I hardly ever see one. I leave them alone especially since my porky hating dog has passed on(current dog ignores them). They are a cool animal and I wish there was a few more.
"They Say Nothing is Impossible, But, I Do Nothing Every Day."
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Re: Porcupine
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04/28/19 09:16 AM
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I wouldn't kill an animal unless it was for a use(food,fur) and only within management parameters or unless it was a specific animal causing problems. Well when they are in our Game Law books / synopsis as "Unprotected species" may be shot at any time thats good enough for me. However, I do use the Quills on most. Shoot a porky, save a tree and a dogs nose.
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Re: Porcupine
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04/28/19 02:56 PM
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Boco
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They are the second most important animal in the bush besides beavers for providing chicots(standing dead timber) for nesting sites for many furbearers,and other wildlife.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Porcupine
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04/28/19 03:06 PM
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Boco
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Some don't think they have any purpose in the bush,but they do.Not saying they should be protected,if there is an overpopulation it wont hurt a thing to thin them out some.Likely will benefit the health of the pop overall. A pair of leather gloves with a wide strip of porky tail velcro'd to the back might come in handy in a bar fight.
Last edited by Boco; 04/28/19 03:07 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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