Skunk/Porcupine

[Donaye37]

if you do get any id gladly take a skunk hide and deal with skinning it myself, same with a porcupine.

[grundy53]

I killed a  porcupine last week. They kill trees.

[MountainWalk]

Why shoot porcupines? Just for kicks?

[grundy53]

They kill trees.

[MountainWalk]

Don't loggers kill trees? Or beavers?  So what? it's nature.

[grundy53]

I bet you would feel different if you were the one that owned those tree's.

[MountainWalk]

I dunno. Guess it depends on the tree. Hell I may keep em around.   I'd just feel pretty low blasting some critter from a few yards away with a 12 bore. Thats just me.

[grundy53]

Ok, let me rephrase this. My family is in the fir tree business we don't like it when they kill our trees. No different then a coyote that kills chickens or sheep. You KILL them.

[Kowsrule30]

I'm with Grundy on this.... We use to lose a bunch of trees in the orchards and Christmas tree farms I worked on..... It was shoot on site no matter what...

[Jonathan_S]

Why shoot porcupines? Just for kicks?

to save trees, salt licks, pets, and to make money off their guard hairs. If most people knew how much money you can make with porcupine hair... 

Porkies can be a real problem. Like when you have to pick them out of a baler 

[Atroxus]

Can you eat them and/or sell/use the hides? Are they damaging your property? If you can answer yes to either or both questions I don't see any problem with killing them.

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[MountainWalk]

Private property protection I can see, but just out in the woods, no, I cannot.

[Donaye37]

shoot why do you think they are under  unclassified..most of the time they are a pest.

[Heredoggydoggy]

Years ago, a friend, who is now deceased, told me that when he graduated from high school he and some buddies got in a 1936 Ford and drove to Yellowstone Park to camp.  When they woke up the next morning, they found that a Porcupine had eaten all the rubber off the running boards on the car.