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Post by weels1886 on Sept 24, 2009 20:21:49 GMT -5
I have a camp up on Tug Hill. Every time I nail up a fresh pine board somewhere to fix it up, I come back next time to find it all chewed up. The marks reach up about as far as a porky can reach. At one part he climbed up the door casing and got into the T-111 siding about half way. I'm pretty sure its a porcupine. I set traps out when I'm up there for a few days, and sometimes I'll drive up the next day to check on it. So far I've tried a live cage with a salt lick and pine board, also I put a dirt set in with four small jump traps around a pine 2X4 with a salt lick - no luck. At this point I expect to go up there next spring and find him inside the camp in my rocking chair reading an old FF&G mag. Any Ideas?
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Post by Itrapny on Sept 25, 2009 5:53:46 GMT -5
Make a dirt hole set with red fox urine, seems to work when you don't want it to ;D
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Post by Lonny Mattison on Sept 26, 2009 6:28:11 GMT -5
WAIT FOR A NICE COOL SUNNY DAY AND LOOK FOR HIM LAYING IN A TREE SUNNING HIMSELF.
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Post by weels1886 on Sept 26, 2009 8:54:15 GMT -5
Thanks. That's my preferred method too, except it's 1.5 hours from home and I have limited time to spend there. I shot a perfectly good raccoon out of the tree one night while I went out back to take a leak. Thanks again. - Weels
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Post by ecgreen on Oct 4, 2009 11:19:59 GMT -5
How do you dispatch a porcupine anyhow?!?
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Post by Itrapny on Oct 4, 2009 12:16:26 GMT -5
Same way you dispatch any other critter you catch.
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Post by pockets on Oct 5, 2009 18:05:28 GMT -5
How do you dispatch a porcupine anyhow?!? TNT works great ;D ;D ;D
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Post by traps82 on Oct 12, 2009 7:29:35 GMT -5
How do you dispatch a porcupine anyhow?!? CAREFULLY!!! ;D
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Post by Itrapny on Oct 31, 2009 19:57:02 GMT -5
Nubuk, Your traps still need to be checked every 24/48 hours hours depending upon zone and all 220 sized conibears need to be set within regulations and covering their hole with one is illegal.
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Post by nimrod on Nov 5, 2009 19:17:45 GMT -5
if you stain your pine board mix in a punch of cayenne pepper
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Post by tim216 on Dec 20, 2009 19:25:50 GMT -5
Dispatching is easy once you get it in a trap just hit it with a club. I've gotten to within five feet of some. And if you want to catch it look for a pine that is bare with a lot of pellet shaped poop around in if you look up you should see the thing curled up in a ball. I found three of them the same day in different trees and all the trees looked like that. Just set traps around it. Hope this helped.
Tim
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Post by northcountry on Dec 20, 2009 21:11:21 GMT -5
Shooting them is a lot easier than trapping them. They are not typically hard to find, just look up while walking through the woods.
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Post by angelsfoote on Jan 26, 2010 21:49:05 GMT -5
I am having porcupine problems as well......I have a 30 foot cliff that runs for about 2 miles behind my house. When I walk along it there are trails all at the base kinda looks like an animal Highway. But most of the tracks are porcupine. There are several (meaning like 30 or 40 ive counted so far!!) Small systems of caves in and along the base of the cliff. I just place a #3 along the trail at random intervals and the next day I have a porcupine in each one I set. But what scares me is........Ive gotten 13 so far and there seems to be no end to them. I normally dont care but every tree within five miles is chewed to the bare wood......Even My apple tree 12 feet from my front door.
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Post by fisher on Feb 27, 2010 9:41:44 GMT -5
try some coyote urine on your trees in your i know skunks dont like it it keeps them away
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Post by Itrapny on Feb 27, 2010 10:24:56 GMT -5
Won't work with a porky, the salt in the urine attracts them
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Post by bobkat on Feb 28, 2010 16:22:37 GMT -5
I don't have recipe for a pin cushion on legs but would love to have quills for native american jewelry making. We dont have them in Va.
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Post by shu9265 on Mar 3, 2010 20:28:42 GMT -5
Electric fencing around orchards, plantations and gardens will keep porcupines away. This can be done by enclosing the area with 60 cm high poultry wire and then tightly stretching the wire mesh over posts set 6 to 8 m apart. Make certain the bottom of the wire mesh is always at or below ground level. Next, put a 12.5-gauge smooth high-tensile wire around the outside fence perimeter, 45 cm above the ground, using insulators at every post. The smooth wire must be kept no more than 4 cm away from the poultry wire. If the distance is greater, porcupines can squeeze through without receiving an adequate shock (Figure 3). Figure 3. Electric fencing will deter porcupines. Use insulators to hold the charged wire in the correct position between posts. Effective and inexpensive spacers can be made using hollow insultube cut at lengths slightly larger than 4 cm and pre-drilled at each end. Thread one end of the insultube on the 12.5-gauge wire, and clip the other end onto the poultry mesh using flexible wire ties. A porcupine, when attempting to climb this barrier, will touch the charged wire with its nose or paw. The resulting shock will be enough to discourage porcupines. Increase the height of poultry mesh and charged wire during winter to account for expected snow depths. Attachments:
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Post by pinebear on Jul 23, 2010 20:21:33 GMT -5
I caught the same one twice with bologna as bait this year.
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Post by woodsdweller on Jul 31, 2010 14:07:49 GMT -5
find a log or stump out by the cabin and everytime you need to relieve yourself use the stump or log. they like salt. then when your there put a few #2 around the stump and see what you get.
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Post by barkeater on Feb 14, 2011 8:56:59 GMT -5
Porkys love apples, make a cubby set if legal in your area
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2011 15:38:05 GMT -5
i thought that it is illegal to trap and kill porkeys in nys???
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Post by keith on Feb 14, 2011 18:51:31 GMT -5
porky,red squirrel and wood chuck are unprotected in ny.They may be taken in any number and at any time.
In deep snow Porky tend to make trails between dens and food trees find the trails and make a trail set with a 1 1/2.pick him up the next day
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Post by rogermckinley on Mar 2, 2012 11:22:55 GMT -5
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Post by Trapper Jack on Mar 2, 2012 11:40:22 GMT -5
Porkys ate my outhouse 3 yrs ago. I mean T1-11, door, and all.
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Post by clt on Apr 16, 2012 17:29:49 GMT -5
Just walk up to them and dispatch. They aren't that bright.If they are around they will get in every coyote set you have.Blind sets in trails with footholds works also.They are like the possums up here,they clog up sets.They like catnip oil and peppermint oil and cubbies with apple for bait will take them.The problem is that with cubby regs the way they are with size restrictions on openings ect it can be hard to get them into them....
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