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Porcupine Hunting?
« on: October 30, 2013, 12:41:40 PM »
Is porcupine hunting legal in WA state, if so what kind of a license do I need for it??? Does anybody know good places where I can find them??? Any info would be helpful!

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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2013, 12:54:56 PM »
They are legal to shoot.  I don't know what license you need............I assume just about any license.

Good luck finding a porcupine when you are trying to find one.  I can't imagine actually finding one when I wanted to.  My guess would be to just drive logging roads and hope to find a porky walking along.......  :dunno:

I had one a few feet from me last weekend while deer hunting.  I was trying to get a doe to grow antlers and I had a porky walk into the brush pile I was resting my rifle on.
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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2013, 12:56:05 PM »
I think i heard They are non-classified.  :dunno: which would mean hunt-on.

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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2013, 01:14:53 PM »
Hunt them. They seem to live in the same habitat as upland birds. My buddy's dog got a face & mouth full of quills last weekend in the cattails.

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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2013, 01:17:12 PM »
Hunt them. They seem to live in the same habitat as upland birds. My buddy's dog got a face & mouth full of quills last weekend in the cattails.

Where was it ???? I'm trying to find a place where I can hunt them..but I haven't seen them here..

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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2013, 01:17:37 PM »
They are legal to shoot.  I don't know what license you need............I assume just about any license.

Good luck finding a porcupine when you are trying to find one.  I can't imagine actually finding one when I wanted to.  My guess would be to just drive logging roads and hope to find a porky walking along.......  :dunno:

I had one a few feet from me last weekend while deer hunting.  I was trying to get a doe to grow antlers and I had a porky walk into the brush pile I was resting my rifle on.


Where was it????I'm trying to find a place where I can hunt them..but I haven't seen them here..

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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2013, 01:21:41 PM »
Crab Creek Willife area. Or anyplace like that in E. WA. I've seen them in the woods around Snoqualmie Pass, too.

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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2013, 01:28:23 PM »
They are legal to shoot.  I don't know what license you need............I assume just about any license.

Good luck finding a porcupine when you are trying to find one.  I can't imagine actually finding one when I wanted to.  My guess would be to just drive logging roads and hope to find a porky walking along.......  :dunno:

I had one a few feet from me last weekend while deer hunting.  I was trying to get a doe to grow antlers and I had a porky walk into the brush pile I was resting my rifle on.


Where was it????I'm trying to find a place where I can hunt them..but I haven't seen them here..

It was in Capitol Forest.  But I've seen them just about everywhere in the State.  I've seen them in sagebrush and in evergreen forest..........But infrequently.  I don't know how you'd actually find one when you set out to find one.

I had one just on the other side of the fence in my yard several years ago.  My lab had a nack for finding them.  But he also wasn't smart enough to keep his face out of them even after the first one filled him full of quills. :o

Maybe just get out and go coyote hunting or grouse hunting and keep your eye out for porkies. :dunno:
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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2013, 02:01:25 PM »
Thanks a lot for the info guys ...I appreciate that

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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2013, 02:07:02 PM »
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My buddy's dog got a face & mouth full of quills last weekend in the cattails
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Retribution for the Dog, is the only time I have killed one.  :chuckle:

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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2013, 02:15:19 PM »
I saw 3 dead on the side of the road at different locations coming from Davenport to I-90 through Harrington straight down last year coming back from deer hunting......
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Re: Porcupine Hunting?
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2013, 05:23:21 PM »
Small game license required to hunt all small game, except grouse an coyotes, which can be hunted with either a big game or small game license.  :twocents:

 


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