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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Badgerin Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:23 pm | |
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huntandfish
Posts : 118 Join date : 2013-08-25 Location : Northern Nevada
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:40 pm | |
| Nice catch! It's crazy they can do that much damage with a trap on one of their front feet. How long are your chains? That catch circle is huge. | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:50 pm | |
| 12" of chain. The one with large catch circle about 8" of cable was exposed as well ... I pulled out the stake with ease and moved new sets to the outside of catch circle | |
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bullschmidt
Posts : 135 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 64 Location : So.Nevada
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:04 pm | |
| Looks like you had your work cut out Sage.. And most everyone says the Pain in the A## is Skinning
them Badgers... HA ! But it is Marginally Better than Empty Traps.. Congrats | |
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BUCKSNBOWS
Posts : 944 Join date : 2011-08-28 Age : 55 Location : NEVADA
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:09 pm | |
| Looks like a bomb went off!!! | |
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Cameron2
Posts : 603 Join date : 2009-05-27
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:43 pm | |
| Badgers are about the only animal that I cannot, for the life of me, estimate their fur value from one animal to another. I've sold $5 badgers and I've sold $70 badgers and for the life of me I can't tell once from the other.
Throw some of those badger glands in your coyote or cat gland lure if you want to perk it up some.
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:57 pm | |
| Cameron2 do you guys have a lot of them down south? How many do you catch a year? | |
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Cameron2
Posts : 603 Join date : 2009-05-27
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Tue Nov 19, 2013 1:07 pm | |
| They are like ringtail cats. We don't have a ton of them, but they just show up . . . sometimes in the most odd places. We don't have the agriculture here so we don't have that habitat to support them. I catch a handful every year in little sandy washes in the desert, but I catch just as many in the rocky, boulder slopes covered with pinion and juniper. There just isn't any logic to where they will show up.
I caught one a week or so ago in a boulder pile and it had rearranged every boulder within reach of the trap -- no soil to dig but it had moved every rock in the area. | |
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Cameron2
Posts : 603 Join date : 2009-05-27
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Tue Nov 19, 2013 1:08 pm | |
| That top badger picture is cool. Typical badger response: "Maybe if I show him my teeth he will go away?" | |
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cattrappernv
Posts : 103 Join date : 2011-12-12 Age : 41 Location : Nevada
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:48 pm | |
| nice looking badgers. I like the looks of them and how aggressive they are but hate skinning them. nice job. | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:50 pm | |
| Ya I don't mind a couple of them but after that many in 1 day I was beginning to get annoyed with pulling up to a mound of dirt every time. Talk to one of the ranch hands on this ranch and boy they were happy to hear that I was catching that man. This place is just riddled with badger holes. In the long run...catching all these badgers will greatly help me with the renewal of my permission to trap here in years to come.
On a side note almost all of the coyotes I am catching here are all very large mature dogs. They flew this spot ranch last year and killed 700 coyotes (so I was told by one of the ranch hands) I have heard this is one of the places that they have had to pull off because they ran out of shells for the day. They flew it a week before I started trapping here and yesterday when I checked I saw 9 coyotes in the a new section of fields that I set up. Anyways I think I am catch the smarter old dogs that have adapted to the planes. Any thoughts on this? | |
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Cameron2
Posts : 603 Join date : 2009-05-27
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:22 pm | |
| NV SAGE: So you started asking about badgers and sure enough . . . Why don't you ask about big tom cats? | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:37 pm | |
| For he life of me I can not catch cats. Trust me wish I could be more of a cat trapper but just don't think I have it me... But those damn stink dogs I can catch them all day long. In time maybe I can learn to catch more then just 1 or 2 a year. Nice cat!! | |
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utah cat man
Posts : 26 Join date : 2010-01-03
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Wed Nov 20, 2013 10:13 pm | |
| At 50 bucks...or more them badgers are worth putting up.....love seeing them nv pics... | |
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highdeserttrapper
Posts : 5 Join date : 2013-04-01 Age : 54 Location : Nevada
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highdeserttrapper
Posts : 5 Join date : 2013-04-01 Age : 54 Location : Nevada
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:19 am | |
| NV SAGE, here is the picture, I hope!
https://s773.photobucket.com/user/dnoorda/media/image_zpsa53447b0.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
https://s773.photobucket.com/user/dnoorda/media/image_zps5acc18cc.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1 | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:37 am | |
| I bet they don't make half the mess with 2 feet caught huh? | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:40 am | |
| Looks like they still made a big of a mess! First one looks like a big female? | |
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highdeserttrapper
Posts : 5 Join date : 2013-04-01 Age : 54 Location : Nevada
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:44 am | |
| They were both males, the first one was much larger. I cased them out, what stretcher should be used for them? I've only stretched one badger and that was about twenty years ago and I split it and stretched it open. CAN NOT believe how much fat those things have! | |
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nvsage
Posts : 633 Join date : 2012-02-19 Age : 37 Location : NV
| Subject: Re: Badgerin Sun Dec 01, 2013 2:21 pm | |
| Yep they sure do have a ton of fat on them. I haven't put many of the badgers up that I catch but the ones I have I just put up on my cat strrtchers. | |
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