Hello fellow trappers!
I would like very much to trap badgers with 220s. Oregon laws says no larger than 7.5 inches. The reason is two fold...First, I have some taxidermy clientel that cry every time there is a trap rub on the leg and cut the price in half...Secondly, the land owner is not too keen on the appearence of a trapped backhoe in the middle of his field...The last one I caught in a leghold dug a hole big enough to stash a small SUV....I have visions of a badger lying dead in a bucket set. However, i set on two fresh holes as a test for the bucket set and by fresh I mean...I saw the badger go into the hole...I set the baited bucket to the side of the entrace facing the run way of the badget as he comes out backwards kicking dirt...both badhers refused to enter a bucket baited with slightly tainted beaver meat and guarded with a 220 body grip trap. Funny how they will travel 70 miles up hill fighting a high wind to destroy my coyote sets but wont take the easy bait right outside of there doorway. Im ready to tell the taxidermist off and start hunting them at night with a 50 cal just to clean the miserable, scum-sucking, set-destroying, evil, communist, low money, long-clawed, stinky, digity dirt bags outa my line. Any information besides leghold trapping methodology would be appreciated.

Set over the entrance of the hole?

Skunk is by far the best attractant I have ever used. If you see a fresh dig and there are tracks bait the hole and set your 220 blocking the entrance. 9 times out of 10 if you see the tracks, the badger has left (temporarily). If fresh dirt and no tracks-- he is probably still inside. Use skunk essence either way as they have really responded for me through the years with it....