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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #30 on: March 08, 2012, 06:53:08 PM »
it don't make a guy tough, but it will save you a fortune if you have them on your property with dogs and trees.
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #31 on: March 08, 2012, 06:56:05 PM »
I killed one a few years ago during deer season and tryed eating it. It tased really bad. Nothing like rabbit.

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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #32 on: March 08, 2012, 07:12:18 PM »
I will never understand why people kill things they aren't going to eat. I guess it makes them tough?  :dunno:

You should really learn how to read and see the reasons why I shoot them. I listed them and they are all legit reasons. Since you seemed to miss it the first time let me start again. They kill thousands of trees every single year. Have cost me hundreds of dollars in time and stress when they stick our cattle. They have filled my dogs full of quills more then a few times. There is a reason they are unclassified wildlife. They do zero good and are very destructive. I always love your type. The guy that says stuff without knowing facts. I am sure you would never shoot a ground squirrel or coyote or skunk or something else without eating it right :rolleyes:
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #33 on: March 08, 2012, 07:56:11 PM »
it don't make a guy tough, but it will save you a fortune if you have them on your property with dogs and trees.
:yeah: if you have a tree farm they are your worst enemy.
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #34 on: March 08, 2012, 08:05:36 PM »
We have planted close to 15k trees over the last 5 years for the wildlife. They are saplings and small started trees. I am happy to take anyone out and show them what happen when one quill pig gets into a couple thousand 1/2-1" tree saplings and starters. You know how much each one of those little trees costs me? Like I said I have lost thousands to the damage they have done to live stock and trees over the years.
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #35 on: March 08, 2012, 08:20:07 PM »
 :bash: :bash: :bash: Gawd sometimes our fellow hunters are our own worst enemies.  The "kill-what-you-eat-eat-what-you-kill" guys are why we loose so much hunting.  Short cougar season, no hound hunting, bear baiting, coyotes with hounds, trapping and so on.  Must not have a clue about real wildlife management.  Population control, property damage control, pet and livestock losses, human safety and predation control are all vital benefits of hunting and trapping.  Marketable products are also used from those harvests.  If we were not paying to do it then we would be paying a government employee to do it.   They bitch about low numbers of deer and elk and then sit on there butts and let REAL conservationists manage the biggest killers of game out there....predators.

Coyotes:  Population 100,000.  50% are females and have an average litter of 4 pups every year.  That means that the population can TRIPLE in one year.  How many turkeys, rabbits, fawns and other wildlife do you think they eat?

Cougars:  Population 2500.  Make a deer/elk kill every ten days.  91,250 deer/elk no longer huntable.

Bears, porcupines, beavers all kill trees.  Thousands and thousands of them.  Beavers can flood entire valley of tree and wildlife habitat.

Crows are one of the biggest destroyers of waterfowl nest out there.

Raccoons, fox and skunks=some of the most common carriers of rabies.  Kill tons of livestock.  Raccoons carry Raccoon Roundworm...nasty parasite transferable to humans and pets.


OK rant over.  Sorry for the thread jack.
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #36 on: March 08, 2012, 08:32:19 PM »
come on Kain we all know the real hunters on here get all there knowledge and facts from the outdoor network, and video games  :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #37 on: March 08, 2012, 08:32:47 PM »
I caught a baby porcupine years ago, and started making a pet out of him.  Gave up and let him go.  Kept forgetting which direction to stroke when I petted him!   :chuckle:  :dunno:
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #38 on: March 08, 2012, 09:13:49 PM »
in an orchard i hunt squirells in, the porks destroy EVERY small tree that grows. It doesn't take long for a few to ruin a bunch of trees. good .22 practice.  :tup: and the farmers all thank me for shooting them

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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #39 on: March 08, 2012, 09:17:33 PM »
That is 100% correct Kain :tup:

People just don't understand. Even I explained why I target them :bash: common sense is not so common anymore.
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #40 on: March 09, 2012, 06:53:58 AM »
That is 100% correct Kain :tup:

People just don't understand. Even I explained why I target them :bash: common sense is not so common anymore.
YA GOT THAT RIGHT, IT AINT COMMON AT ALL.... just come to my work.... holy chit man......if someone was shootn deer or elk and not eatn them thats one thing.... but porks, coyotes, cougars, bobcats and beaver. well beaver meat is actually pretty damn fine  :chuckle: :chuckle: but seriously i cant wait to find my first pork and kill it....  :IBCOOL:
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #41 on: March 09, 2012, 07:03:28 AM »
That is 100% correct Kain :tup:

People just don't understand. Even I explained why I target them :bash: common sense is not so common anymore.
YA GOT THAT RIGHT, IT AINT COMMON AT ALL.... just come to my work.... holy chit man......if someone was shootn deer or elk and not eatn them thats one thing.... but porks, coyotes, cougars, bobcats and beaver. well beaver meat is actually pretty damn fine  :chuckle: :chuckle: but seriously i cant wait to find my first pork and kill it....  :IBCOOL:

I'll take any cougar meat off your hands....   :drool:  I used to think somewhat poorely of people shooting cougars just to shoot them, then I tried some kitty backstrap, YUM! 

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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #42 on: March 09, 2012, 01:40:19 PM »
As with any animal they must be managed to exist in today's ecosystem without putting undo stress on it. The introduction of tasty new tree species (orchards and tree farms) compared to what is native may actually be increasing populations. More trees=more quill pigs. If they like apple bark better that is what they will eat. This does not jive with the livelihood of the people paying for the trees. Management is necessary.
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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #43 on: March 12, 2012, 12:33:27 PM »
I dint now it was legal to shoot them here?

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Re: A couple porcupines from last night
« Reply #44 on: March 12, 2012, 12:44:32 PM »
I was ready for this entire thread to go sideways with the beaver comment and no one took it.  I guess we are all growing up...  Congrats to all...  :chuckle: :chuckle:
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