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Topic: Badgers on the hit list...
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DAA
Utah/Promoted WESTERN REGIONAL Hunt Director
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posted December 06, 2015 09:27 AM
I mentioned in another thread not too long ago, I generally give badgers a pass anymore. For whatever reasons, I just don't usually bother to shoot them.
Well... Yesterday I stepped in a badger hole. Snow had it covered up so it was invisible. Went down and in up to my knee. Twisted my ankle and my foot pretty good. Scraped a bunch of hide of my shin on the frozen edge of the hole. Laying there, my foot was jammed in and twisted to where I was struggling just to pull it out. Finally gritted my teeth and did so.
Ankle is all jacked up and swollen today. Foot is bruised pretty bad. Ain't gonna be walking right for weeks!
Gonna kill the next few badgers I see...
- DAA
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"Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom, but they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em." -- George Hanson, Easy Rider, 1969.
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Dave Allen
Hi, I'm SUPER DAVE, IN CHARGE OF Q STUFF (and Goat Leader) "I'm really not trying to be a dick".
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posted December 06, 2015 12:06 PM
Dave, where I shoot sage rats, now really close to my new place is full of badger holes. Some spots literally look like a battlefield.
I've stepped in many with no snow, there's just that many. I'm really-really lucky so far. Been stuck only twice now after a tire drops into one.
I have zero use for badgers..
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Leonard
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posted December 06, 2015 01:20 PM
Is that not the legend? Reason to shoot badgers, in the first place? The cattle step in those holes and break a leg, so they tell me?
However, instead of Dave's rather tame laundry list of injuries, I sincerely thought he was going to say that damned badger chewed half his leg off?
That would be a, (more than) valid reason to kill the next few badgers, if you ask me?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Lonny
PANTS ON THE GROUND
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posted December 07, 2015 06:34 AM
Sorry to hear that Dave. Hope it gets better sooner rather than later....
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JimM
Knows what it's all about
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posted December 14, 2015 05:10 PM
You are lucky there wasn't one down there sleeping and waking up to grab your foot for lunch.
All the ranches I call/shoot on either want them left alone as they feed on p-dogs, or like coyote shot on sight.
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Lungbuster
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posted January 16, 2016 11:59 AM
Hope you get better soon.
Can I come to your place Dave? I got a $98 average on the 2 badgers I sold last year.
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DAA
Utah/Promoted WESTERN REGIONAL Hunt Director
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posted January 17, 2016 05:47 AM
$100, no kidding?
I'd no idea.
- DAA
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Leonard
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posted January 17, 2016 04:38 PM
Yeah but, he EARNED it!
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