Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: elsmasho82]
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11/28/23 06:08 PM
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Law Dog
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But they’ll dig themselves outta your enclosures like Shawshank Redemption! Ground screening with dirt on top wooden boxes to crawl under.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: Law Dog]
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11/28/23 06:18 PM
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Yes a warm and cuddly creature that smells like lavender if I remember right. LOL And they have such a gentle disposition. It is a wonder that there is not a bigger live market for them as pets for the elderly blue haired ladies.
Let's go Brandon
"Shall not comply" with morons who don't understand "shall not infringe."
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Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: k snow]
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11/28/23 07:30 PM
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Yukon John
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I made that for a friend in our muzzleloader gun club. His daughter in law promptly claimed it as hers. He has since moved to North Carolina, so he doesn't miss it too much. I have a couple that are tanned with feet on...I'd like to make a hat, and integrate the feet, just haven't got the cahonies to do it yet. I also have a scrub coon that I tanned to make a practice hat out of before I tackle the 1st one my son trapped...really don't want to screw that one up!
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Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: Yukon John]
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11/28/23 08:03 PM
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k snow
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I made that for a friend in our muzzleloader gun club. His daughter in law promptly claimed it as hers. He has since moved to North Carolina, so he doesn't miss it too much. I have a couple that are tanned with feet on...I'd like to make a hat, and integrate the feet, just haven't got the cahonies to do it yet. I also have a scrub coon that I tanned to make a practice hat out of before I tackle the 1st one my son trapped...really don't want to screw that one up! Good luck with your projects. Coon are good to experiment with, not terribly expensive and make a good looking hat.
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Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: elsmasho82]
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11/28/23 08:11 PM
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Diggers are fun!!
You would think that prairie that's been converted to 85-90% cropland would have many badgers left but I think they've adapted to living in the grassy ditches of the township roads. And as Law Dog showed, they can make small bomb craters of dug soil all the way around a stake. I was so embarrassed by one digger's crater that I went back the next day with a big scoop shovel to try and even things out before it froze for the winter.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: elsmasho82]
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11/28/23 08:39 PM
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Catching badgers always made me glad I used drags. On open ground, there were lots of mini crop circles but not many big excavations.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: NonPCfed]
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11/28/23 09:03 PM
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Diggers are fun!!
You would think that prairie that's been converted to 85-90% cropland would have many badgers left but I think they've adapted to living in the grassy ditches of the township roads. And as Law Dog showed, they can make small bomb craters of dug soil all the way around a stake. I was so embarrassed by one digger's crater that I went back the next day with a big scoop shovel to try and even things out before it froze for the winter. I always tried to set for them where I wanted to put an outhouse. If you catch one, the outhouse hole is already dug.
I have nothing clever to put here.
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Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: elsmasho82]
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11/28/23 09:13 PM
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Trapped fifty or so, shot two or three, and chased down and smacked several with a spade. Too old to chase em anymore. Pretty easy to get permission to trap diggers around here, as well as getting calls to remove them from people's yards. Charlie
Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.
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Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: elsmasho82]
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11/28/23 09:19 PM
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Law Dog
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I trapped a ranch for several years straight and caught 5-6 most years probably still badgers there.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Badger is Best!
[Re: elsmasho82]
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11/28/23 10:57 PM
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Had a lot of them around as a kid and caught a few of them. Then they disappeared for awhile but recently started a come back. Now I usually catch 1 or 2 incidentals a year in coyote sets unless I target them specifically. Cool critter in their own right.
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Badger is Best!
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11/29/23 12:33 AM
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Boone Liane
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Prairie possum.
I hate the things.
Last edited by Boone Liane; 11/29/23 12:33 AM.
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