I always loved badgers, but I never bumped into one when I lived in Europe.

Anyone take one recently? Poor English hunters got screwed by their PC thugs and can't hunt them anymore.

Actually it was the badger baiting thugs who screwed us...The scum often perpetrated acts of extreme cruelty on the captive badgers in the name of their "sport" and are about as far removed from genuine sportsman and hunters as I can imagine..

As our presidential canidate Obama would say "truedat P".

Seriously though it is horrible that you lost some part of your hunting heritage due to some assholes with degraded concepts of sportmanship.

From what I can see through my rose colored glasses the average Briton thinks about as much of badgers as they do pandas. Really sad!

I joined some referendom on www.facebook.com about repealling the badger act. Whatever I can do to help.

Well yes and no,

I took one two years ago, with my driling, I took one with my car the other night.




There has been others taken at our ground in there den with the use of a dog and a shovel, aka dirt hunting.

In Sweden we hunt badgers hard due to the fact they are so tenatious at eating chicklets and hare babies.

Here is a forum member of mine with his first for the season.



The thread, in swedish is 26 pages long and has a tally of some 300+ foxes and 400+ badgers this season alone and so far.

http://forum.robsoft.nu/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=64723&st=0...a&hilit=r%C3%A4vjakt

Best regards to you all.

Chris

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Originally posted by D99:
I always loved badgers, but I never bumped into one when I lived in Europe.

Anyone take one recently? Poor English hunters got screwed by their PC thugs and can't hunt them anymore.

We have to shoot over the badgers to get the fox round here, the tree huggers would rather see dead dairy cows than dead badgers!

Do you eat those black and white fellas?

At one time in the UK I have known the hams to have been eaten - before they were protected, because they were on the verge of extinction??

Eat them no, I haven´t even heard of it, however there is some meat on them.


I would not eat a badger but that is all down to how they smell and the fact that they might have tricinosis, I belive it´s called.

Best regards Chris

I have been told by a couple of people that tey taste rather good. Personaly I don't thinkI'll ever eat badger or Fox....

FB

Hi!

Took six of them last summer in traps, so far this year we have taken 4 by use of releasing a german hunting terrier in to the den.

Hunting badgers is quite important as they are quite a large predators of birds eggs, so by hunting them we hopefully increase the surviving numbers of ducks and pheasants.

As said before I would not eat a badger, but I have heard that during WW2, when meat was hard to get by, people ate them. Dont know if ther is any thruth in it though.

Regards/Karl

i will eat most things, but badger, i think i would have to draw the line.

they do make exceptionally good shaving brushes though, so they do have their uses!

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Originally posted by nightwalker uk:
Do you eat those black and white fellas?

At one time in the UK I have known the hams to have been eaten - before they were protected, because they were on the verge of extinction??

See: How to bake a badger

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they do make exceptionally good shaving brushes though, so they do have their uses!

Back in the mid 1930's my grandfather used to dig badgers to sell the hides which either went for shaving brushes or to make sporrans...Apparently there was still quite a high demand for these sporrans from the various Scottish Regiments which would have been expanding at that time..

Regards,

Pete

Nice link to a recipe Mouse!! Lets hope this catches on with the rich and famous!

I would deffinately not eat fox but I reckon, if it was legal, I would give a young badger a try.

I remember a conversation about 12 years ago with a Para who was watching a peregrines nest, he told me he had eaten badger - surely must have been a road casualty? - anyway he said it was fantastic, but then again he had been living off army ration packs for a few weeks. I made his day by dropping a roe liver and heart in for him on my way back off the hill.