One shot @ 271 yards.

Great shot.
Those rascals are pretty tough and to pluck one off with a single well placed shot at that range deserves an "atta boy."

It looks like he went DRT on top of his mound. I've shot a lot of them with various calibers and had them crawl away to their burrow. I ran over one purposely with the car last summer on a hot summer evening and after I turned around to put the headlights on him I saw him drag his hind legs and down into his hole.

He looks like a nice big one. Congrats

Hit him right below the left ear so he was DRT. Bullet was 40gr V-Max, didn't exit. Must have scrambled his brain a bit. We guestimated him 20-25 lbs. My buddy killed his twin the following evening.

Nice shot!

I shot mine with a .375 H&H. He was DRT too!

Like to add a badger to my trophy room,where can I harvest one.

I killed this one in NE California near the OR border. They've got a pretty good range in the US, Canda, and Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Badger

Anywere in the midwest to hunt badger,ive never seen one in the many years of hunting.

Badgers like prairie dog towns.

You can hunt prairie dogs and coyotes for free in Wyoming, but a non-resident trappers liscense is $400, and badgers require that.

I'd look into other states about badger classifications. WY, NM, TX, MT, AZ, CO, UT, NE, SD, ND, ID, CA, OR, and WA all have badgers. But every state classifies them as something different.

Big prairie dog towns will have a few that live there most of the time.

My question is what did you do to get your wife to let you put a dead badger in the kitchen sink? That's even more amazing than a 271 yd head shot on a badger (which is pretty darn impressive, btw).

The picture was taken in the kitchen at my buddies "lodge".
The ladies are more or less infrequent visitors.

Congrats on a great shot!

I wondered about that sink too. Badgers are very stinky creatures!

Bob

My only reservation to killing them, is that they live off of those little sage rats that destroy farmers alfalfa fields...

claws on those things are amazing....

I've killed them before, too. But right now, I would welcome one (big
holes or not) in a pocket gopher infested pasture. Those little devils
make mounds which about brake the ol' back when mowing. Wish they would
come out like prairie dogs, but spend practically all their lives
sub-terrain.

Great shot!! The 204 is an amazing little beast itself! From the size of the "badger hilton" in the alfalfa field, the farmer I'm sure didn't mind him being offed! Now if he doesn't break a spindle (or worse) running into the den with equipment! GHD (we call those big dug out berms "Groundhog Hiltons")

this one gave his life to a 223 with a 55 grain SP from a load using Blue Dot...

Good job!

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WY, NM, TX, MT, AZ, CO, UT, NE, SD, ND, ID, CA, OR, and WA all have badgers. But every state classifies them as something different.

we have alot here in Nevada also I generally dont see them unless I am just out messing around. Carry some smoke bombs for hte ones that wont come out of a hole and cover it with a piece of plywood and stand back as they come out a bit perturbed.

I get a rush when I have one cornered.



Cal30

Good shooting, another pasture wrecker bites the dust! They are well hated around here!
I got an old rancher buddy that calls me his personal pest eradicator, I'm the only one he lets shoot on the place (and my wife). He has a fairly small place as ranches go but it is liberally populated by gophers (actually Richardson ground squirrels), rock chucks and the holy terror of the pasture wrecking hole diggers, badgers. He calls me whenever one sets up shop in one of his pastures. His take is "I'd love badgers if they'd just fill in the damn hole behind themselves".
A couple years back I was finally persuaded by a shooting pal to buy a black plastic rifle after swearing in the late 60's I'd never touch another one as long as I lived. I got a great deal on a new Bushmaster Predator, it was right after everyone had received the "re-order" on AR's after every one available flew off the shelves cause of the election. Prices were good and after some break-in and load development I was amazed to find how accurate the new generation of AR's really are. I'm shooting 55 grain Hornady V-Max's in LC brass with enough Benchmark to chrono 3,150ish FPS and shoot with the bolt guns using the aide of way to much scope.
Having developed a load but never having shot a critter with it I decide to go to my buddies place and break it in on fur .
Long story short I was on the east side of the east pasture when I was glassing the area and saw a large mound of dirt on the west side of the next pasture over out in the alfalfa with dirt flying 5 feet in the air out of the middle of the mound, I ranged it at 675ish, way to far for me. I drove around the edges of the east pasture till I was even with the mound of dirt to range it again and a big ole badger was laying lengthwise on the top of the mound, it ranged 287 yards. Shooting off a bag in the window of my pickup I held a bit high and a few inches into the wind and fired my first shot ever with my new Predator.
Note hole in the center of right ear states the ego maniacal montdoug.



First shot ever on fur and the Predator takes a predator. Sorry for babbling but I'm an old fart and that's a real fond memory. The few of ya here that know me know mostly I shoot sub .22 caliber stuff on varmints. This badger I took at about 175 yards with one shot from that Cooper .17 Ackley Hornet, it's a younger one.



These two I shot a number of years back with a Cooper .17 MachIV



This young pup I took off a mound on that far ridge in that dog town behind me with a .20 Tactical a few years ago. It ranged about 525ish and I actually got at least 3 pups(that's how many were above ground when I got over there). I saw the first one, ranged it and at the distance couldn't tell it was a pup. I kept shooting and then I'd look back and there he was again , I thought I was missing but that rifle is dialed-in pretty well at that distance so it wasn't till one rolled forward and died in plain sight that I walked over and seen I'd wiped out the whole litter .



Sorry this is so long! I could go on but that's way to much outta me already, I just love shooting badgers! The elk of the hole digging vermin! One thing I can honestly say though is I sure never give one a bath .
Again, nice shooting and thanks for the temporary escape from being house bound in a snowstorm.

It was pure happenstance, but I shot one last October in an alfalfa field while we were chasing speed goats with muzzleloaders... that 385-grain Harvester full in the chest at 50 yards pretty much wadded him up, if you know what I mean.

Beautiful animals... it is a shame they are so destructive.

Good shooting on the badger. Big rascal too.

Great story on yours too montdoug. Nice post.

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Originally posted by TexKD:
Good shooting on the badger. Big rascal too.

Great story on yours too montdoug. Nice post.

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