Badger tips

[y2k]

Got badger holes appearing in field. Any tips how and when to find them?

 

[FLHTCUI]

Got badger holes appearing in field. Any tips how and when to find them?

Easiest would be set up a trail cam outside the den.....
There are guys on ewe toob who chase Badgers down and catch them by hand.
Might be able to glean some tips from their vloggs.
Rob

 

[savagelh]

Soft cat food. Thank me later.

 

[aprilfoolsme]

Dawn and dusk best times

 

[Longwalker]

Or, consider that badger holes are vital habitat for a whole bunch of critters that appreciate the opportunity to go underground and shelter in a ready made badger hole. Badgers are a vital part of the prairie ecosystem, not appreciated by many people, but they have a place. If they are actually doing damage, I have no problem with shooting them. Have done it myself. If you don't have horses that may break a leg in a hole, consider that all holes are not bad. And leave a few for posterity please.

 

[y2k]

I have expensive machinery

 

[remyltr]

shove two patterdale terriers down the tube
be prepared to dig the dogs out later

 

[Bigbubba]

Easiest would be set up a trail cam outside the den.....
There are guys on ewe toob who chase Badgers down and catch them by hand.
Might be able to glean some tips from their vloggs.
Rob

I witnessed a guy catch one by hand
Man those things have claws...

 

[Buckmastr]

They are most active in the day time in august when they are breeding. Otherwise they are pretty nocturnal.

 

[FLHTCUI]

I witnessed a guy catch one by hand
Man those things have claws...

Never seen one in the wild, but stumbled across this video a few seasons back.

 

[badgreenbird]

 

[Big bore dinosaur]

Easier to trap them come fall and spring..
Bare handed !!! Wow

 

[mbogo3]

If you just want them dead carbon monoxide them with some irrigation hose and an exhaust.

 

[Yotarunner]

I have found badgers to be most active evening and morning but have caught them randomly at all hours of the day. If you spot one grab a gun and watch where he goes. 9 times out of 10 he will run to his hole then whip around with his arse in the hole and slowly poke his head out to watch you and that's when you can catch a good frontal chest shot. As for trapping em the only way I have heard that's effective is to build a small chicken wire pen around a hole with either a conibear or snare setup in an opening of the pen.

 

[Hunter1970]

three traps evenly spaced from one central stake. wire a partridge (chicken?) carcass to the same stake. you won't miss...

 

[trevj]

That guy catching a badger bare handed, even a young one, dunno if I should be amazed at his Chutzpah, or absolutely impress by his growing as old as he has while making really stupid decisions!

Seen enough footage of Grizzly bears getting backed off by a badger, to think that the dude and his border collie, are both gonna get a heck of a surprise one day, when the 'wrong' badger shows up to his calls! LOL!

Pretty well done on his part still...

 

[meatsticks]

If you just want them dead carbon monoxide them with some irrigation hose and an exhaust.

This works great for many subterranean pests!

 

[Buckmastr]

That guy catching a badger bare handed, even a young one, dunno if I should be amazed at his Chutzpah, or absolutely impress by his growing as old as he has while making really stupid decisions!

Seen enough footage of Grizzly bears getting backed off by a badger, to think that the dude and his border collie, are both gonna get a heck of a surprise one day, when the 'wrong' badger shows up to his calls! LOL!

Pretty well done on his part still...

A badger has bigger balls then most guys who mess with them