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[Kevin Bradley <kbradleyy@edibleforestnursery.com>]

A surefire way to catch these munchers is to build a cabin and oil the 
logs, then sleep in the cabin. You'll hear them munching on the logs at 
night whereby you wake (out of a sound sleep usually) and shoot them. Bury 
them right away, killing them seems to attract other porcupines, (I suspect 
because of the salt in the blood, spilling even a teaspoon of salt outside 
seemed to attract them, or perhaps due to sex hormones released when shot). 
I shot seventeen one summer using this method.
Kevin B