Hounding badgers?

[007pennpal]

One of the pups in training decided she wanted to be a bader hound. Couldn't find a cat track so, I'm thinking why not. Are they trash or what? You can sell the pelts so I put up a couple furs. Snarly buggars really get the hounds going.
Sean

[Dan Edwards]

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[catenaround]

i have never had the dogs trash a badger. but i have trapped a lot of badgers in the past. i skinn them open like a beaver with the claws on . strech the hide on a sheet of plywould same as a beaver. when i did this i got a few bucks more than the guys that cased their badgers at the klamth fer sale. a taxidermist bought mine to make rugs out of them. Richard

[Mike Leonard]

Seems like badger pelts vary more than just about any furbearer even in a given area.

Some what we call hair badgers just never seem to get a real good coat with the good guard hair on it and then you will run into the true fur badgers and nothing is much prettier than a really prime fur badger. Back in my fur days I skinned a lot of badgers and the good ones always sold very well. I had a half bird dog have hound that was a whiz at finding them stinky buggers and a lot of times I guess becasue of the rats and mice they would lay up in big straw piles around the wheat fields. this dog would root them out and then hold them at bay and you could go pop them with a 22 or an oak 2x2 if you were fast on your feet. LOL! I have seen a lot of cat dogs take their tracks in the snow before but generally they are down in a hole someplace.

[Big N' Blue]

Years ago!! LOL when Coon in a hole and coon on a log were legal at UKC hunts there was a man in Texas that had a badger. He would take it to all the hunts and make a fortune putting him in a log and betting a hundred dollars at a time that a dog could not pull him out of the log. Well he made a lot of money as those gritty coon dogs just did'nt have the heart. In Waco, one of my friends had an old B&T that had no back-up in him and hit the back of that log so hard, he killed the badger and pulled him out and I thought the guy would cry!! LOL He had lost his money making machine. Damn I miss the old days!

[BEAR HUNTER]

I say go for it if you dont mind it. When I was coon hunting with a bad set of Jack Russells I always wanted to try them on badger. I heard how bad a badger was and wanted to see if my dogs had the stuff to kill one.

[cobalt]

Silly question, Sean. Of course they're trash, esp. if you want to make halfway descent cat dogs. You'll know what I mean when all they end up wanting to do is look for badger. It is hard enough to make straight dogs on multiple treeing species. Dogs should only be put on target animals. Because it's fun and you can't find good tracks is no excuse to ruin your dogs by running off game.

[Dan Edwards]

In Waco, one of my friends had an old B&T that had no back-up in him and hit the back of that log so hard, he killed the badger and pulled him out and I thought the guy would cry!!



Did you see that with your own eyes? Killin a badger on dry ground for one dog no matter how big they are is extremely difficult.

[Big N' Blue]

Seen it with my own eys Dan. came out of that log shaking him like a rag doll.

[Dan Edwards]

Seen it with my own eys Dan. came out of that log shaking him like a rag doll.

I understand that but was the badger actually dead? I have seen what kinda damage a badger can take and its off the charts.

[Big N' Blue]

The damn thing was DEAD! Broke neck.

[Dan Edwards]

Kool! Never seen that in my life.

[briarpatch]

Dan, I have witnessed this type of thing quite a bit. If the badger was in a "hole" such as a man built wooden tunnel the badger was at a disadvantage IF the dog was strong and brave enough to charge into the animal and take a deep hold. A few dogs are. The badger cannot manuever in there and if the dog will grab deeply and stay with it the fight is over.

briarpatch

[blue]

That's a pretty gritty hound.....I believe it to be done but not without a good whopping handed back. I've got patterdales and a pitbull for that and even they have thier work cut out for them.

[UphillDoc]

The damn thing was DEAD! Broke neck.

Cmon man...I just gotta know, do YOU actually believe that, or do just want US to...

Take care.