"WHAT'S ON THE SPIT?"

[Keith Zimmerman]

When I was growing up I was told not to shoot porkys because they were lost mans food.  Easy to kill for a starving pilgrim.

[frassettor]

I hear that porcupine is the ultimate survival food, it's the only meat you can eat raw and not worry about diseases .

[Mike Vines]

 it's the only meat you can eat raw

I bet it would be better then the recipe I tried.

[Brianlocal3]

Ah, Ron. You and I have the same pallet. Creamed chip beef on toast is a favorite of mine, grits are another. Groundhog, porky, coon, possum.  MMMMMM. I have dined on alot of the small game bounty and they are all good eats.  

P.s. try you chip beef over grits next time.... It is heaven on a plate

[WRV]

Don't have them here in Mebane, NC
I would try one though....

[Randy Morin]

Cant get any diseases from Porkypine?
Maybe but as a teen in VT my friend and I were eating some lunch during a fall squirrel hunt when we were charged out of nowhere by a very angry Porcupine.  We both unloaded our 12 guages on the "Mad" critter.  That things insides were crawling with huge tapeworms.  I mean gigantic.  Grossest thing I have ever seen.  Poor thing was goin crazy with all them worms wriggling around his insides.  Probably was starving to death as well.  Couldnt eat one for that reason alone...less I was starvin.

A few years earlier my brother was charged for no reason by a angry porcupine during a grouse hunt in an old apple orcherd.  I wonder if that one too had been writtled with intestinal tapeworms.  Not saying you couldnt cook it up and be safe but I always found these two incidents interesting.

[VictoryHunter]

I'd like to give that a try!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I know someone who shot and ate one.  I'll take his word for it. Not that I fear the flavor, just too dang lazy to skin one.

[Mike Vines]

Originally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
I know someone who shot and ate one.  I'll take his word for it. Not that I fear the flavor, just too dang lazy to skin one.

That was the fun part Charlie.  The neighbors came over to see it because they had only seen them on TV.  Actually, the neighbors come over quite a bit when I come home, just to see what critters we came back with.

Leather gloves are a requirement.

[Ron LaClair]

I killed one once with my belt knife, it was coming at me making an aggressive sound. I chucked the 6" blade into him from just a couple feet away. It took him a few minutes to die but it took the fight out of him. I didn't eat that one.

Frassettor, I think there's more than enough porcupines in the woods to feed all of the lost hunters..     :rolleyes:

[SELFBOW19953]

Chipped beef on grits????  Grits, eggs, butter and cheese with some pepper!!  I've eaten raccoon, armadillo, flying squirrel, groundhog, rattlesnake, and all sorts of other stuff.  In Florida, I helped a guy catch possum one time using a burlap sack over the large opening at the hind end of a dead scrub cow and beating the sides with a stick.  Got 3 possum like that-lost my curiosity about how possum taste!!!!

[2Blade]

Ron is the Ultimate Woodsman killin a Porky with his knife. I bet Badgers are scared of him

[2Blade]

<<<<<< This guy dont mess wid Porkys

[Ron LaClair]

 Ron is the Ultimate Woodsman killin a Porky with his knife. I bet Badgers are scared of him  

Just the opposite, I got charged by a badger once. It was in the spinng of the year and I had ridden my Honda Trail 90 to check out some fox dens that I knew about. This one den was in the middle of a big grass field and the grass was several feet tall. I parked the bike and walked in to see if the den was occupied. When I got to the den the grass was all matted down in a 30' circle. I was checking out the den entrance to see if there was any fox tracks in the sand. I heard a rustling and saw the grass moving in a line towards the den. As I watched a big badger popped out into the opening. I just stood there looking at it and it had stopped and when it's eye's met mine I said, "Hello there". It came at me as fast as it's short legs could carry it growling as it came.        

I was wearing shorts and sneakers, all I could think of was those long claws on my bare legs. I jumped straight in the air and when I landed I was 8 feet away. Every jump after that carried me 10 feet or more and I didn't stop to look back until I got to me bike 100yds away ... I probably set some kind of record for the 100 yard dash..  

[Hud]

This sounds like another one of Ron's stories, or rumors'n recipes. Bring em on.      

[Stone Knife]

Ron, I'm not sure if they all are like the one I watched a guy dress out for a meal but in the case of that one I had never before seen so many parasites inside and outside of an animal in my whole life. I relies that a good hot fire will kill anything but that was a little much.

[LookMomNoSights]

I would eat porky to survive.....and maybe try it if someone had a knack for cooking it.   However, I would always have in the back of my mind,  the fact that Porcupines eat their own feces to obtain maximum nutritional value from what they take in as "food".    

[Ron LaClair]

LMNS, I don't know where you heard that they do that but I don't believe it. Anyone that has spent much time in the woods where there are porcupines has seen piles of porkie pellets at the base of a hollow tree where they have denned up for a period of time.

read a little more about them in this link.

  http://bobarnebeck.com/ppines.htm

about their eating habits
 http://www.allstateanimalcontrol.com/animals/porcupines/porcupine_eating.php

[Ron LaClair]

Opinions from those that have tried it

 http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php/68847-Eat-Porcupine

[LookMomNoSights]

.....it's actually very interesting!!! A porcupine is what is know as a "hindgut fermenter".   They will consume up to 60% of their feces.  The practice is called coprophagy....
This is just one small bit of info below....
you may have to print it to read it.  Check out the 4th page,  right side and read on!  Very interesting!
 http://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/FNR/FNR_203.pdf