So they are considered furbearers in PA but you can’t trap them, only hunt them. I understand the meat is very good. Has anyone ever caught one in a trap? Cage trap or foothold trap doesn’t matter. Is it different in other states? Just a curiosity

Have caught them in footholds

On purpose or accidentally?

On purpose where they was doing damage

I've caught a few in fox/coyote sets. Like almost everything else, they are attracted buy the urine, probably the sodium in it.

Yeah I heard they like salt and I think I read in a Hawbaker book they will eat your oars for your boat because of the salty sweat from your hands

They love salt

My buddy shot two a few years ago during the season. We were going to cook them up. The general consensus among Tman members was that porcupine is not very good to eat. I forgot about them and they got freezer-burned.

They are excellent eating.

Not according to most Tman folks

Eating Porcupine

Never eat one but easy to catch. I find where they den up at and that is easy because of their dropping and the unique smell. I use foot hold and one of the easiest critters to trap.

I have caught them in foothold a at canine sets. Never understood why. I guess they were curious.

Protected here in NJ. You want to have fun try releasing one from a snare!!
Ate some once, tasted not much like pork but a lot like pine...

I've footholded quite a few using a salted post for a bait. Every one I've cut open to clean has been so full of parasites that I've elected not to eat them.

I have caught a lot of them. Take a dragged trap up a tree. .
as far as table fare if you like the taste of Turpentine you will like them

All very interesting! Thanks all! Nice pictures Snowy

If you approach them from downwind you will wonder who built a hog confinement building in your neighborhood. The smell alone is enough to make me take a pass on eating one of them.

I always thought they smell like bad human body odor. We had a buddy in highschool that we called "Quill Pig". Smelled just like a porky.

Well did ya ever eat it?

And green treated lumber. I tried eating one ONCE and it was horrible. Bruce must have far superior culinary skills than I do. I fed it to the dog and she licked her butt for 3 days trying to get the taste out of her mouth.

No, it got freezer-burned. I left it in too long.

And T-111 siding. I have a picture of a camp from a few years ago where the siding from the ground up about 2 feet is completely gone, eaten by porcupines.

I have skun plenty in the past and been stuck by the quills in the process i chop the whole animal up then run thru the grinder i put a 4 week taint to the meat then stabilize with sodium benz and methyl parabin
to that i add amberette oil castor and ruie oil works great for canines

You need to find a contractor that moves a little faster then.

Probably let that happen on purpose after reading all the replies lol.

salt in urine

It wasn’t my camp, it was an abandoned shack a couple of miles from my place.



They have occasionally gnawed on the T-111 on my carport though.

I think you are probably right.

I have ate them. Cut into bite size pieces and deep fried. I liked the taste. Not the skinning though. Smell is bad when you skin one but the smell is all hide not meat.

I've skinned a few. They have surprisingly thin skin.

yes I've trap them salted apple works great, yes ive eaten them skin them from the belly, cut into bite size pieces, best to pressure cook for 15 min, we make pot pie, with them everyone at the meeting love it,

here are a couple from last winter, crafter will pay good for them these are tanned with the orange bottle,

Nongame here open all year round, have caught them in traps, live traps and snares.
Never tried to eat them, can think alot better thing's to eat.