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04-02-2009, 12:26 AM
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Badger hunting > pictures
We've got lots of snow here but the gophers are out and the farmer wants them gone before the little ones hatch.
Yesterday, my son and I were parked in the middle of the pasture field glassing and sniping the gophers when a badger started working on his den. Ranged him at 150 yards and placed a 40gr. Berger from the 20BR square into the chest as he was watching my truck. We walked over to the den just as he slipped slowly rearwards down into the hole. OH NO !!! Taking turns we dug for almost an hour in the frozen ground and found him still alive and needed to place a 17HMR bullet in the centre of his back. I took the badger to the taxidermist today for a flat rug with full head. $ 650.  Don't wanna do the taxidermy thing too often but it was a shared experience with my son so it'll bring back hunting memories. These are very tough animals and there's no worry about bullets exiting these critters.   
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04-02-2009, 12:36 AM
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i see i'm not the only one to go through ridiculous efforts to retrieve an animal! i have trailed a coyote 6 hours to finish it. when i'm that many miles out in the snow, i skin it on the spot. i wish my cousin was still doing taxidermy work, he is very talented. he used to charge around $300 for a badger if i remember right. good to see you have some shooting after yote pelts have gone rough. not much going on here now. just cleaning my pelts and stretching them. i'm tanning mine and making product out of the fur since the market went to crap. that will keep me busy till the fish start to bite. i sure do miss having prarie dogs.
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04-02-2009, 12:54 AM
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Al Good work. How deep and big is the den. Never seen a badger in the wild, but want one for the wall
I want one. BAD! ML
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04-02-2009, 01:30 AM
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badgers
Southern Alberta has lots of badgers but actually seeing them is another store .They are generally a noctural animal . You can see lots of badger holes but rarely see what makes them .
They make a nice rug .I have one rug mount , and one full mount . If I knew how to post a picture I would show the mount . Chris
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04-02-2009, 02:40 AM
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AlbertaAl--That is a nice looking badger. It will make a nice rug indeed. That price of $650 seems a bit steep to me. It has been a long time since I had a nice red fox done as a rug with a half head mount, but I think I only paid $75 or so. The taxidermist managed to rip the tail off about three or four inches from the body and tried to glue it back on. He made a matted mess of the fur and I think you can see the split in the tail in this photo. Maybe $75 was too much for the way he screwed up the tail
  Please post a photo or two of that badger rug when you get it done.
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04-02-2009, 02:43 AM
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This time of year that oughta make a nice hide. Al I'm guessing that you being the shrewd fella we know ya to be that's your boy doing the digging? It's called a return on your investment dad
 . All kidding aside that'll be a great memory.We take a lotta badgers around here too but the last one I thought worthy of being a rug/head mount the taxidermist was nice enough to loose for me. Gotta new taxidermist now.
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04-02-2009, 07:43 AM
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Beautiful! Well earned, like most game is.
Be proud of yourselve's and teaching the boy not to let a wounded animal suffer a longer than necessary death. Seems like greed on the price of that rug though. Just for kicks I asked my taxidermist by e'm what they'd charge and will report back once I hear. In Nov I turned in for mounting etc: 2 muley hides for fleshing & tanning hair on, horns for a wall placque and that huge old head mount for remounting. Total bill: $775, including $35 difference on a cape as mine was too small for such a big rack.
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04-02-2009, 01:21 PM
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taxidermy prices
Regarding the $650. taxidermy price....that's in Canadian pesos
At first, I couldn't believe the price myself....but after shopping around I found that to be the the going price. I was also told that taxidermy fees have all gone up over the last 4 years. It's been a few years since I needed the service so was out of touch. Whats even more surprising is that for just $200. more you can get a full body mount. Seems like a lot more work when you compare the two jobs. Costs $650. to do a coyote or fox in the same manner. At least I shopped around for a taxidermist and got a good one this time. The last taxidermist is used took 2 years to complete a coyote head mount. This guy will have the rug ready in 5 months. My shot on the badger was a weeee bit too low. He was looking square at me...in an upright position. I had the crosshairs on his upper chest, the badger body has an upward taper and a short body, I should have been aiming a little higher to hit him below the neck line. There was no doubt or thoughts of dreading the digging but once we got started it was just to hard too give up. You couldn't pay me enough to go outside and dig a hole today...funny how that works...must be adrenalin ! 
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04-02-2009, 03:16 PM
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You need to ping Andy, he's been seeing one off an on for the past year on the property he hunts up in Montana. (Though, I think he feels very similar to you...he wants one bad as well! ) Everytime he's seen him, he's only had a .22LR on hand, definitely not enough gun for a crusty old badger...
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