Killing a Porcupine? (high school, camping, authority)

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by Maineguy04654

The wardens could care less. They are nothing but ticket writing robots in green. Gone are the days of the helpfull Maine wardens who where outdoors men first and who loved to help out those who asked a question.

Maybe that's because we as a state expect to pay for veritably 12 of them to cover the entire state of Maine and chase after non hunting nitwits which we don't have enough police to control.

I'm reading John Ford's second book now. Anyone who thinks that wardens can even remotely have enough time to do what they what they were originally tasked to do in in far gone days is firmly rooted in the days gone by.

I once had a buffoon drop a deer in the middle of my field (which was clearly marked "Hunting by Written Permission Only" and obviously my sister's horse pasture). It was questionably near dusk to boot. I marked it by permission only because my DH and DS as well as a responsible neighbor hunted it and I didn't want to shut it off because I support responsible hunting. This yahoo did it on youth day no less, and shot it from the road. Wow. What a great mentor.

He was lucky I wasn't there. Be that as it may, unfortunately, neither was my local game warden who was stuck investigating some drug issue in East Bejesus several hundred miles away. We were eventually able to track the jackwagon down and he got a fine, but not before the warden for my area got some good intel from the neighbors.

[Maineac]

O.K., there's actually over 60 game wardens in Maine. You choose to believe what Ford writes, that's up to you. I can tell you about a couple game wardens coming to my house drunk on their behinds, walking in and plopping down at my kitchen table looking for another beer back in the late '70's early '80's. One of them became a sheriff. The other one was caught poaching while "guiding" and kicked out of the service. Yeah. I got stories, too. Don't believe everything you read. Maybe I'll write a book.

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by Maineac

O.K., there's actually over 60 game wardens in Maine. You choose to believe what Ford writes, that's up to you. I can tell you about a couple game wardens coming to my house drunk on their behinds, walking in and plopping down at my kitchen table looking for another beer back in the late '70's early '80's. One of them became a sheriff. The other one was caught poaching while "guiding" and kicked out of the service. Yeah. I got stories, too. Don't believe everything you read. Maybe I'll write a book.

I don't believe everything I read in a book. I grew up with the game warden who responded to my issue.

Yeah, Maine's a big state.

Giddy up dead horse.

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by Maineac

O.K., there's actually over 60 game wardens in Maine. You choose to believe what Ford writes, that's up to you. I can tell you about a couple game wardens coming to my house drunk on their behinds, walking in and plopping down at my kitchen table looking for another beer back in the late '70's early '80's. One of them became a sheriff. The other one was caught poaching while "guiding" and kicked out of the service. Yeah. I got stories, too. Don't believe everything you read. Maybe I'll write a book.

Actually there are 124 of them covering 35,385 square miles of the state.


Be that as it may, back to the OP:

http://maine.gov/agriculture/pestici...pine-ICWDM.pdf

Personally, I'd shoot it.

[Moxie]

We've been told that killing them is illegal in Maine. We think we've found someone to come take him away.

[moosehunter]

Originally Posted by Moxie

We've been told that killing them is illegal in Maine. We think we've found someone to come take him away.

glad ya got the problem handled....just remember roast him over white coals...butter and BBQ sauce ....what a fine Maine 4th of July feast

[Moxie]

The guy didn't show....back to square one......

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by Moxie

We've been told that killing them is illegal in Maine. We think we've found someone to come take him away.

Hmm...it never used to be, but I'm behind the times with the laws.

[Maine Writer]

Originally Posted by Moxie

We've been told that killing them is illegal in Maine. We think we've found someone to come take him away.

That's incorrect. There's no closed hunting season for porcupine, ground hog, red squirrel and coyote.

http://www.maine.gov/ifw/hunting_tra...sonsChart1.pdf

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by Maine Writer

That's incorrect. There's no closed hunting season for porcupine, ground hog, red squirrel and coyote.

http://www.maine.gov/ifw/hunting_tra...sonsChart1.pdf

Thank you. I didn't think that had been changed, but I couldn't find that link.