As I sit strapped in iodine wreaking bandages once again, my mind keeps drifting to my past and future trad adventures.
Has anyone here taken a badger with trad equip.?
I have't been out west in awhile, and would love to build my own quiver out of one. I've built lots, but not from one I harvested.
I'd love to see pictures.....
I have put great shots on two badgers my last two trips to southern wyoming. Each time I was sickened when I they managed their way down holes before dying. They are are tough animals.
I have never seen one here in Massachusetts !
Here's one I did when I had two working arms...
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I'll have to have my youngest build it for me now!
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Jeesh am I ever bored.
I thought I was the only cat who wants to shoot a badger with longbow. I :dunno: want a full body mount!
How are ya Izzy? Lets set up a 2013 badger/antelope hunt!
Nice looking quiver! A full body mount would make a nice addition to the game room! Good luck fellas!
I had one come buy my tree last year.. tempted me -- but I did not have small game license, did not know if 'badger season' was on and I was only 8 feet up a tree and I figured a pissed off badger can probably climb trees. So no.
I want one in a bad way , would be a cool mount.....
,,,Sam,,,
I never seem to have my bow when I see them, but I really like that quiver. May need to try harder to connect.
I had one get chased off 2 years ago while I was turkey hunting by a hen turkey! Thought I'd seen it all at that point :biglaugh: Nice looking quiver, and I agree with the above posts it would look real nice to have a badger mount in my living room!
I arrowed one in Wyoming about 1993 when I lived there. Wyoming is a GREAT place to get a badger and i can tell you spots where you will for sure locate critters but beware, you need an expesive fur harvesters permit to shoot one there!
What part of Wyoming? I'm familiar with Buffalo/Sheridan area......
I remember hearing about the fur harvester permit last time I gun hunted Wyo, only saw a roadkilled one both times Ive been.
Shirley Basin is thick with badgers.
Badger mounts are really nice ! have been lucky enough to mount a couple, just cool animals.
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Wish I could post pics on here! I killed one in south Texas a few years ago with my longbow. Was going to make a quiver to hang up in my den but got talked into a full body mount. Really glad I did. They're gorgeous animals, but man that critter stunk!
These are tough critters and i have a tanned hide that amazes people with it claws alone. We were chukar hunting on a ridge when we saw a dust cloud. When we got there it was a badger digging up a ground squirrel. He dug so farand fast as to disappear in about 3 minutes. Amazing critters
I've never shot one,but I've watched my son shoot two.The first one was looking out his hole,the arrow went clean thru and pinned him to the ground.
I've killed a couple....tough critters indeed. The first one got back down a hole after I got an arrow into it. We could hear it digging away about 3 feet down and across from it's entrance. We ran back to the truck, grabbed a shovel and crowbar, and dug another hole where the sound was, finding the badger. We stuck the crowbar down the hole, and as the badger bit the curved end, pulled his head into the clear and shot him again, finally killing him!
I've killed five over the years with a recurve. Mostly in MT. I quit shooting them because I've never killed one with a single arrow. They're tough, die hard and usually leave you with multiple short pieces of arrows bit in half before they're done. I've filmed several of them here in Iowa too that you can see right under my stand in our latest videos. I quit shooting them because they eat turkey eggs and I don't like turkeys messing up my whitetail hunting (sorry turkey guys). By the way, I hear you can pick one up by the tail and he won't bite you.... well a dead one you can. :^) BW
My first badger encounter happened 30+ years ago. I spotted him dash across the dirt road I was traveling and jumped out with Hill bow to give chase.
I was young, fast and agile and closed on him fairly quickly as he dodged through the short sage brush cover.
Hurtling a sage clump on the edge of a small clearing I found the rather irate badger waiting for me.
The chase continued except the tables had turned.
I lost sight of him in my haste to put some distance between us and never saw him again.
:scared:
Ha, this is good stuff.
Great pics Charlie,thanks for sharing.I shot 3 killed 1.
I migth add I graduated from U of Wisc=the Badgers. I have a soft place in my heart for those hard little dudes
I have shot a couple while hunting pronghorns over water. I lip squeeked them right up to the blind.
Yes, you do need a fur harvester license in WY. The season is open year round. Yes, Shirley Basin has lot's of them, I live really close to the basin.
Nice looking quiver YORNOC.
I killed one many years ago while spring bear hunting in Montana. I carried him back to the car, putting him in the trunk. A couple minutes later, I heard something and opened the trunk to find him laying on the spare tire snarling at me! I grabbed him by the tail, pulled him from the car and finished the job with a big club. I had a nice rug made from him. Still have it. I've seen half a dozen or more shot with arrows. I've never seen one die easily.
One other good badger story...an old friend caught one alive in Wyoming. Managed to throw it into the trunk of his employer's passenger car. The plan was to give the car keys to an old guy back at the office and have him get a "lunch bucket" from the locked car trunk. Jay got a hundred yards across the prairie when the very pissed off badger clawed its way clean through the back seat of the company car! A big chunk came out of the back seat as well as his paycheck!
Don't think I could shoot one now. Got know one of these pups pretty good a few years back. Named him buddy . He would show up when I was on squirrel patrol. Had to keep a close eye on him they are way grazy.
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The land owner loved them ,He has a big ground squirrel problem.
great pics Tim!
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Yornoc - God's speed on your recovery! I've only come upon one in all my years in the woods. Back when I was still hunting with a wheel-bow I came across one when I was headed back to my truck at dark-thirty.
Startled me pretty good because the first thing I noticed was its growl! Then he and I studied each other in a stare off for a few minutes before I finally decided it would be a good idea to leave him alone.
Great looking quiver bud! Glad to see you are passing on leathercrafting to your young ones! I'd love a quiver made from one someday. I have a coon skin in the garage just waiting to be sewn up into a back or side quiver. Yours inspires me to get it down and get it put together!
Keep in touch and don't get too bored my friend. Lots of good hunting stories here and other places to take your mind too. Prayers for your recover offered too. :)
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