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Title: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: wannabhntr on November 06, 2012, 01:43:02 PM
Can shoot skunk and porcupine? I can not find anywhere the regs that shows a season on either one.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Special T on November 06, 2012, 01:53:43 PM
I believe they are in the varmit catagory like coyotes.  :twocents:
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Heredoggydoggy on November 06, 2012, 06:27:38 PM
No closed season on porkys.  Skunks might be in the trapping regs, but I don't know for sure.  If you shoot a Skunk, make sure you shoot it in the head.  If it sprays, it will stink for months....
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: blindpig on November 09, 2012, 06:15:49 AM
Ur good to go on porky's for sure.  My boy tried out his 20 g. buck shot on one about a month ago, worked great.  ;)
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: boneaddict on November 09, 2012, 06:22:50 AM
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No closed season on porkys.  Skunks might be in the trapping regs, but I don't know for sure.  If you shoot a Skunk, make sure you shoot it in the head.  If it sprays, it will stink for months....

WRONG!

It has to do with the autonomic nervous system.   If you shoot it in the head you have a MUCH HIGHER chance of it letting loose with the juice.   Shoot it in the heart.   Most of the time they won't spray.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: rtspring on November 09, 2012, 06:26:57 AM
Not sure if the fishing trip story of hell is remembered on here, but no skunk sprayed after I shot them.  All heart shots, or really close.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: buglebuster on November 09, 2012, 06:59:56 AM
Ive shot a few skunks that didnt spray... Broadside at 5 yards with a 12ga :chuckle:
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Kowsrule30 on November 09, 2012, 10:28:50 AM
Every skunk I've shot in the head sprayed... That would be 3... Took 3 as well with heart, lung, spine, or a combination.... They didn't spray.... No more head shots for me....  :chuckle: 
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Heredoggydoggy on November 09, 2012, 12:01:07 PM
Not sure what the ticket is.  Saw one along the Malaga-Alcoa highway hit by a car--no skunk smell.  Shot one with a 12 gage years ago--stunk up the area for months!  :dunno:
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on November 09, 2012, 12:16:58 PM
Why shoot them unless they're causing trouble?
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: boneaddict on November 09, 2012, 12:18:56 PM
Why shoot them unless they're causing trouble?

Thats actually how I feel.   Skunks do alot of good.   I have had to deal with a couple egg eaters with my birds but other than that.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Kowsrule30 on November 09, 2012, 04:04:05 PM
Why shoot them unless they're causing trouble?

Thats actually how I feel.   Skunks do alot of good.   I have had to deal with a couple egg eaters with my birds but other than that.

Pretty much the same here.... I've only shot two in the woods just because they got way to close.... If you know what I mean....
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: KFhunter on November 11, 2012, 12:47:49 AM
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No closed season on porkys.  Skunks might be in the trapping regs, but I don't know for sure.  If you shoot a Skunk, make sure you shoot it in the head.  If it sprays, it will stink for months....

WRONG!

It has to do with the autonomic nervous system.   If you shoot it in the head you have a MUCH HIGHER chance of it letting loose with the juice.   Shoot it in the heart.   Most of the time they won't spray.

I've shot many Skunks just about any place you can shoot a skunk.



I had good luck once shooting it right in the 'ol brown eye, with a 12g.   I thought I was onto something so I started shooting skunks in the butt-hole.

needless to say it doesn't work so well either.

A trap designed for skunks is the only way to go, and for you feel gooders you can relocate.  Just don't put them near me I'll kill every one of them, just like a mosquito.

Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Heredoggydoggy on November 11, 2012, 12:18:30 PM

A trap designed for skunks is the only way to go, and for you feel gooders you can relocate. 

FYI:  It's against the law to relocate wildlife.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: boneaddict on November 11, 2012, 12:24:38 PM
Fun to videotape though, especially skunks
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Donaye37 on November 12, 2012, 12:23:00 PM
if you do get any id gladly take a skunk hide and deal with skinning it myself, same with a porcupine.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: grundy53 on November 12, 2012, 12:38:55 PM
I killed a  porcupine last week. They kill trees.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: MountainWalk on November 12, 2012, 01:00:53 PM
Why shoot porcupines? Just for kicks?
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: grundy53 on November 12, 2012, 01:07:11 PM
They kill trees.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: MountainWalk on November 12, 2012, 01:08:12 PM
Don't loggers kill trees? Or beavers?  So what? it's nature.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: grundy53 on November 12, 2012, 01:12:12 PM
I bet you would feel different if you were the one that owned those tree's.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: MountainWalk on November 12, 2012, 01:14:33 PM
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.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: grundy53 on November 12, 2012, 01:18:45 PM
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.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Kowsrule30 on November 12, 2012, 03:57:47 PM
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...
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Jonathan_S on November 12, 2012, 04:05:12 PM
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  :bash:
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Atroxus on November 12, 2012, 04:13:43 PM
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. :twocents:

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Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: MountainWalk on November 12, 2012, 04:20:05 PM
Private property protection I can see, but just out in the woods, no, I cannot.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Donaye37 on November 16, 2012, 09:56:47 AM
shoot why do you think they are under  unclassified..most of the time they are a pest.
Title: Re: Skunk/Porcupine
Post by: Heredoggydoggy on November 16, 2012, 11:27:18 AM
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.   :chuckle:
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