Instructions: The porcupine is rarely an intentional hunters target, but many hunters take a whack at one when they come across it inadvertently. Some People encourage this, particularly Foresters who resent the porkys habit of "ringing" trees, leading to the trees eventual death. Others insist that porcupines should be killed only in dire emergency; they have been called a "walking lunchbox." Since porcupines are very slow-moving, anyone lost in woods where porcupines live can always eat. The animal can be easily killed with a club for a source of food.

Whatever your particular attitude is, should you want to try a porcupine, go right ahead. It is not necessarily true that they taste like kerosene! The porcupine cleans out easily. Much as you would proceed with a rabbit, slit the belly area, thus avoiding the quills. Naturally, remove the stomach. The hide peels off easily, as does the rabbits, right down to the feet and there you are with lean, dark meat. (In Pennsylvania, if the quills arent to be saved, they are first singed off, then the skin is cut off.) Porkies range from 9 to 40 pounds.

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