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Porcupine questions #8487063 10/16/25 07:23 PM 10/16/25 07:23 PM
Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania elsmasho82 OP trapper
elsmasho82 OP trapper Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania	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

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487066 10/16/25 07:27 PM 10/16/25 07:27 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Northern Maine Bruce T trapper
Bruce T trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Northern Maine	Have caught them in footholds NRA,NTA,MTA,FTA #1 goal=Trap a wolverine

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: Bruce T] #8487068 10/16/25 07:28 PM 10/16/25 07:28 PM
Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania elsmasho82 OP trapper
elsmasho82 OP trapper Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania	Originally Posted by Bruce T Have caught them in footholds On purpose or accidentally?

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487071 10/16/25 07:29 PM 10/16/25 07:29 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Northern Maine Bruce T trapper
Bruce T trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Northern Maine	On purpose where they was doing damage NRA,NTA,MTA,FTA #1 goal=Trap a wolverine

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487076 10/16/25 07:33 PM 10/16/25 07:33 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 SEPA L Lugnut trapper
Lugnut trapper L Joined: Dec 2006 SEPA	I've caught a few in fox/coyote sets. Like almost everything else, they are attracted buy the urine, probably the sodium in it. Eh...wot?

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487077 10/16/25 07:34 PM 10/16/25 07:34 PM
Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania elsmasho82 OP trapper
elsmasho82 OP trapper Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania	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

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487078 10/16/25 07:34 PM 10/16/25 07:34 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Northern Maine Bruce T trapper
Bruce T trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Northern Maine	They love salt NRA,NTA,MTA,FTA #1 goal=Trap a wolverine

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487079 10/16/25 07:35 PM 10/16/25 07:35 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 SEPA L Lugnut trapper
Lugnut trapper L Joined: Dec 2006 SEPA	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. Eh...wot?

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: Lugnut] #8487081 10/16/25 07:39 PM 10/16/25 07:39 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Northern Maine Bruce T trapper
Bruce T trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Northern Maine	Originally Posted by Lugnut 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. NRA,NTA,MTA,FTA #1 goal=Trap a wolverine

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487087 10/16/25 07:47 PM 10/16/25 07:47 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 SEPA L Lugnut trapper
Lugnut trapper L Joined: Dec 2006 SEPA	Not according to most Tman folks Eating Porcupine Eh...wot?

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487095 10/16/25 08:03 PM 10/16/25 08:03 PM
Joined: Dec 2011 MT S snowy trapper
snowy trapper S Joined: Dec 2011 MT	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. Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487098 10/16/25 08:05 PM 10/16/25 08:05 PM
Joined: Nov 2012 Frazee, MN B backroadsarcher trapper
backroadsarcher trapper B Joined: Nov 2012 Frazee, MN	I have caught them in foothold a at canine sets. Never understood why. I guess they were curious.

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487101 10/16/25 08:09 PM 10/16/25 08:09 PM
Joined: Mar 2009 wantage n.j. E eric space trapper
eric space trapper E Joined: Mar 2009 wantage n.j.	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...

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: eric space] #8487102 10/16/25 08:12 PM 10/16/25 08:12 PM
Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania elsmasho82 OP trapper
elsmasho82 OP trapper Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania	Originally Posted by eric space 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...

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487103 10/16/25 08:14 PM 10/16/25 08:14 PM
Joined: Aug 2012 Blackduck Minnesota B Big Sam trapper
Big Sam trapper B Joined: Aug 2012 Blackduck Minnesota	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.

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487105 10/16/25 08:15 PM 10/16/25 08:15 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 New York ,Adirondack mts. M mole "The Tman morning greeter"
mole "The Tman morning greeter" M Joined: Dec 2006 New York ,Adirondack mts.	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

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487114 10/16/25 08:35 PM 10/16/25 08:35 PM
Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania elsmasho82 OP trapper
elsmasho82 OP trapper Joined: Jan 2023 Pennsylvania	All very interesting! Thanks all! Nice pictures Snowy

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: elsmasho82] #8487119 10/16/25 08:39 PM 10/16/25 08:39 PM
Joined: Dec 2016 Jackson Co, KS N NEYotetrapper trapper
NEYotetrapper trapper N Joined: Dec 2016 Jackson Co, KS	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.

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: NEYotetrapper] #8487125 10/16/25 08:48 PM 10/16/25 08:48 PM
Joined: Aug 2012 Blackduck Minnesota B Big Sam trapper
Big Sam trapper B Joined: Aug 2012 Blackduck Minnesota	Originally Posted by NEYotetrapper 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.

Re: Porcupine questions [Re: Lugnut] #8487127 10/16/25 08:55 PM 10/16/25 08:55 PM
Joined: May 2011 Oakland, MS yotetrapper30 trapper
yotetrapper30 trapper Joined: May 2011 Oakland, MS	Originally Posted by Lugnut Not according to most Tman folks Eating Porcupine Well did ya ever eat it? Proudly banned from the NTA. Bother me tomorrow. Today I'll buy no sorrows.

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