Swatting Porcupines
Filed under: Ask Grant
Question
Have you done any porcupine swatting lately, or have you gotten to old? Remember Weller Mountain, 1990?
Steve
Steve,
Those were some fun days! No, I haven’t collected any porcupine quills using the swatting technique lately. I did trap two skunks earlier this year (GDTV 10). My trapping partner, Bill, got sprayed while dispatching one of the skunks. I’m not sure I filmed that, as I was insuring the camera didn’t get sprayed. Bill says I was simply running the other way! I guess I did forget to grab the camera as I was moving upwind.
Growing Deer together,
Grant