Uh oh

[bigjohn]

Got permission from a farmer with a couple thousand acres to predator trap. The ground is mostly row crops but has some good travel corridors thru it. The guy is pretty particular on where you can drive so I'm trying to be real carefull on this ground.
Driving into one section this morning where I put in a pair of sets yesterday I see a mound of dirt about 3 feet tall where I'd put in a scent post.Caught a badger in the set and it being on the shoulder of the road it sure made a mess of things!The mound of dirt was from the huge hole he dug to hide himself in.
Now drives in the farmer who pulls up next to me and I'm thinking I'm really in for an earful.Uh oh. Instead he starts thanking me for getting rid of a problem that cause tractor damage earlier this year while mowing around his fields. Guess this badger had really made himself a pain ,digging into terraces,field edges,and watrways all summer.
.He was so gratefull that he gave me permission on another of his farms that has another 6 or 7 hundred acres all in one piece. Love it when things like this have such a happy ending.

[emt]

You lucky dog got my first yote of the year off your beaver tail oil

[trapperw3]

way to go John

[yotesnatcher]

Very nice bigjohn. Any pics? Never seen a badger down in my part of the state.

[trapper20]

Dang you're lucky. Having all that to trap to yourself. Maybe the word will spread to other farmers and you'll get even more places

[kmiller]

smart farmers know you will fix the trap circle and he is rid of an ongoing problem...

[bigjohn]

Dispatched so not to damage and I'm going to peddle him to a taxidermist.This is the 11th badger I've caught in Mo and is the typically brownish ones we have here.Two I caught about 10 years ago were the silver beauties that we rarely see here.

Emt,coyote trapping should start picking up with the colder temps coming. It's been slow earlier. I've seen deer carcasses left untouched this passed month. That BTO is just too much for them to leave alone lol

[tylercraiglow]

Today, I found for the first time a badger den. Dang near ran my pickup off in it. Was out in the middle of a few 100 acre cut bean field. I left him a present...

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Dec 17, 2014 20:37:14 GMT -6 yotesnatcher said:

Very nice bigjohn. Any pics? Never seen a badger down in my part of the state.

I don't think Bigjohn owns a camera. I posted a few pictures of the badger that I caught a few years back, good luck finding them tho.

[bigjohn]

Tyler,those badger holes will eat up a truck frontend if not carefull. I've tried to catch them at diggings before but here,they are so nomadic it hasn't been that productive.

One winter I followed one in the snow and let me tell you it took me thru some of the thickest stuff around. It finally dug a hole to spend the night and I caught it the next day,but that was the only time I've taken one from a hole.

The levees that failed during the floods of 1993 and 2005 were due to badger holes in them. They've gassed some dens in the past to get rid of them but they still show up.

[bverboy]

whats a badger worth

[bigjohn]

Dec 18, 2014 6:22:54 GMT -6 bverboy said:

whats a badger worth

The most I ever got for a badger was $40 but like I said they were the silver fur badgers. The ones I've seen at the MTA auctions went for less than $15 and were the brownish ones.
I think it was taxi market guys bidding on them. We just don't have a very good badger in Mo.

[cletisrichards]

Badgers like cats are late primers, the November caught western Ks ones $7-28.....January caught silvers $80-100.....fur above the backbone is the last to fill in, so if there is a valley across the back they have a ways to go , if no valley they are prime and will bring the most return.

[login]

I got more for my possum then I did my badger. Be the last one I send end.