Thank you!!! Badgers are so cool! I don’t have any dealings with them but I know they’re rowdy. Everyone says how tough wolverines are but I bet a Badger would beat ‘em!!!

They are a straight up nasty animal! They can be completely unrestrained and bear up to a fight! They are off limits in Wisconsin due to the state animal.

Grawe's trapping days 70's and 80's had the badger pull out of the barrel,and the bare foot bear trap setting.Good times way back when...Jack thanks for sharing,i've only caught a hand full,you know what you've caught from a distance.....

A whole family of badgers from southern Idaho. Not a very good price, as they were "hair" badgers.




Do those all have ear tags?

Its like catching a backhoe

I have only caught a few, I have to travel to get into the right habitat.



Sure makes pulling earth anchors easy.




wws

This one got into a marten set.

Stinky, greasy and destructive. I try to avoid them.

A couple years ago I heard something in tall grass (I was standing in short grass), so I stood still and pulled out my phone. A badger popped out less than 20 yards away. The wind favored me, and it didn't notice me. So I recorded it working its away around me. After several seconds of recording, I said "well are you going to say hi?". With that, it looked at me and scurried off.

Fun times!

Caught this one about a month ago in NW New Mexico. Probably one of the nicest looking badgers I’ve ever caught. Gonna get him tanned and keep for a wall hanger. I caught another that was much smaller but didn’t get a picture. Like already said, it’s crazy the amount of dirt they can move.

This one is from a few years ago

Ketamine is almost impossible to get ahold of anymore! Won’t even let WS use it.


Drug of choice among Hollywood Actors……

I have always been curious how they got a reputation for being vicious. They are tougher than coyotes but certainly not vicious.

Danny -

They often bear their teeth and growl a lot, therefore have acquired the reputation of being vicious. That's all it is.

Jack

Why would that matter?? The Pheasant is our state bird and we shoot millions of them..lol

Beautiful work btw Jack! You have and are living a life most here can only dream of, myself included! Your pictures and stories are simply amazing. Congratulations!

I would rather go hand to hand with a badger then a big boar coon. Coon were harder on my dog badgers.

A badger I home tanned and made into a display. Did it as a favor for a farmer who let me trap and hunt his place for decades. He found it as a road kill in front of his farm and had a possession permit for it. Sadly he was killed in a farm accident shortly thereafter.

Getting ready to release a badger caught in a fox set early seventies. Notice the fancy release pole made from a rake handle and a rope. Lol