Defense of Property in Northern Wisconsin from Porcupines

Ammoland ^ | 22 July, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Porcupines are one of many pests which are most easily controlled with firearms.

[2banana]

Porcupines have been around northern Wisconsin a whole lot longer than humans.

The forests did fine all that time.

[Vaquero]

Yeah. Gotta keep the critters at bey. Up at our hunting camp we have plugged porcupines and didn’t realize we had flying squirrels in the area till a family of them moved into the barn. For that a .22 with bird shot ( dust) took care of them at close range.

[marktwain]

15,000 years ago, there was nothing but mile high glacial ice in Northern Wisconsin.

Humans and porcupines moved in about the same time.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

10 years ago there were no armadillos in the Missouri Ozarks.
Today, they’re everywhere and headed north.

[Candor7]

Here is an old hunters trick to actually keep porcupines from chewing on your cabin in the woods. Just select a nice log or small pile of firewood, and make sure you urinate on the wood daily. The pungent smell will draw the porcupine to the wood
for its salt content and it will chew only there.

This urination method also a great way to bait them and dispatch them.

Remember, a porcupine craves salt, and will chew any wood it finds with salt on it, such as wooden canoe paddles.

[DIRTYSECRET]

What about raccoons?

[The Antiyuppie]

“Northern Wisconsin from Porcupines, Eric in the Ozarks wrote:
10 years ago there were no armadillos in the Missouri Ozarks.
Today, they’re everywhere and headed north.”

I saw a few armadillos run over in SC and GA. Hard to believe.

[PAR35]

Well, the picture illustrates two of the three “S”’s.

[bert]

Murderer...... what harm was imagined from the flying squirrels?

[TStro]

I live 110 miles south of San Antonio. The armadillos dig holes all over my yard. See there carcasses on the road all the time. Seem to be a new invader

[super7man]

Ear protection for a 10-22? Well, I suppose it would be OK.

One the time we went backpacking and when we got back to the trailhead, several of the cars in the parking lot were out of commission because a porcupine had eaten the radiator hoses. No cell coverage either.

We were spared and drove to the nearby town and reported that there were a bunch of people stranded at the trailhead. The local tow truck headed out that way. Don’t know how long it took to get everyone back on the road.

[Londo Molari]

I mountain bike at Raystown Lake, an Army Corps of Engineers facility in PA. The Corps put plastic benches trailside in many locations — the porcupines have destroyed all of those benches. The only things left are the steel uprights. Amazing how destructive these critters are. IMO, a close second are beavers.

[marktwain]

Ear protection for a 10-22? Well, I suppose it would be OK.

The .357 would have required ear protection.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Apparently, they can swim since I’ve observed runover armadillos north of the Missouri River.

[RedMonqey]

"Today, they’re everywhere and headed north.

They’re in Tennessee.

Today.

[Vaquero]

They chew the living hell out of everything of value in the barn and chewed through the eaves.

[allwrong57]

When hunting elk or muleys, we eliminate them any time they’re around.

[CH3CN]

We’re in northern Missouri, about 60 miles from Iowa. I saw one of those Possums on a Half-Shell (armadillo) dead on the side of the road a half mile outside our little town. I about broke my neck craning it to verify.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You’d think MDC would make a campaign to rid us of these critters like they have feral hogs.