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Author Topic: Badgers Cal Taylor Knows what it's all about Member # 199 posted November 27, 2004 10:43 AM                    1st trap check on about 8 sets. 3 badgers. I guess they are supposed to be worth a little this year though. 40 bucks maybe. I think I averaged about 25 on them last year. Gas money at least. They are one of the few animals that I refuse to put up. I freeze them and sell them whole. -------------------- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. FoxPro Field Staff Member Posts: 1069 | From: Wyoming | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Tim Behle Administrator MacNeal Sector Member # 209 posted November 27, 2004 12:03 PM                       Cal, I've passed on a couple of good coyote locations this past week because there was sign of Badgers digging in the area. I cross stake my traps with 24" rebar, I'm afraid a badger might dig them up and leave with my trap. Every picture I've seen of a badger in a trap looks like a land mine went off. One of these days, I'm going to miss seeing their sign and snag one, but I'm in no hurry to do so. -------------------- Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass kickin'. Posts: 3160 | From: Five Miles East of Vic, AZ | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged onecoyote Knows what it's all about Member # 129 posted November 27, 2004 01:44 PM                   Cal, I know why you freeze and sell them whole. It won't take long for someone who has never cased a badger to figure it out lol. -------------------- Great minds discuss ideas.....Average minds discuss events.....Small minds discuss people.....Eleanor Roosevelt. Posts: 893 | From: Walker Lake Nevada. | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Cal Taylor Knows what it's all about Member # 199 posted November 27, 2004 04:44 PM                    And the smell Danny, the smell in a confined space is about unbearable for me. That and Beaver. I can take most smells, rotten bait, dead stuff, gut shot antelope, but badger and beaver musk makes me gag. I have open 2 day dead coyotes to check stomach contents and not a wimper, but I still won't skin badgers. That and as you mentioned they skin hard too. -------------------- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. FoxPro Field Staff Member Posts: 1069 | From: Wyoming | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted November 27, 2004 04:47 PM                       As one who has done it, but not recently, I can guess why..... First of all, they seem to have a lot of fat under the skin, and they don't peel like any animal I have ever skinned. They are tough, and ackward to work with. Fight you every inch of the way. Then, to my mind, they really gross me out, foul smelling gooey juices, and the fur is kinda brittle and always in the way. And, besides. As has been mentioned many times, bullets have a hard time exiting, but they still make a mess of the internals. I have killed them with everything from 22-250 to 25'06 and I honestly cannot remember an exit? Other than that, skinning badgers is no big deal. If you get a nice one, worthy of a mount or a rug; it's worth the effort. Good hunting. LB [ November 27, 2004, 04:52 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ] -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31459 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Dave Knows what it's all about Member # 402 posted November 27, 2004 07:18 PM                    I have only caught one badger ever. We have some around here but I stick to coon. The one I caught it happened to stick it's head in one of my 220 conibears. It didn't stand a chance. If I could figure out how to post a picture here I would share it with you all. I enjoy the picture's that I have seen and would like to give one back for everyone else to enjoy Dave Posts: 28 | From: South Dakota | Registered: Sep 2004  |  IP: Logged GUTPILE Knows what it's all about Member # 448 posted November 27, 2004 07:33 PM                   I shot a male Badger this summer while out in the woods cruising for coyotes. I was so excited I almost wet myself. Come to find out, you have to live trap 'em [ need license] because they are furbearing. About a 25#er from what the taxidermist said. Male. I was so mad I had to get rid of it. Applied for a trapping license only come to find out, you have to live trap them, then shoot them. Only in Washington State. -------------------- Guns have two enemies: RUST & POLITICIANS. TOO FEW PEOPLE MAKE TOO MANY DECISIONS FOR TOO MANY PEOPLE Posts: 132 | From: Curlew Wa | Registered: Nov 2004  |  IP: Logged Jack Roberts Knows what it's all about Member # 13 posted November 27, 2004 09:32 PM                    Leonard, "Other than that, skinning badgers is no big deal. If you get a nice one, worthy of a mount or a rug; it's worth the effort." Next time I shoot one, I will send it to you. No need to pack it in dry ice since a little putrefaction can only improve the smell. Jack Posts: 499 | From: Elko NV formerly MD | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged

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