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Knocked off a nice badger yesterday, I caught him nosing around some old farm machinery, probably looking for a mouse, He took off when he spotted me & I unlimbered the Lipsey's 44 special, 250 gr Keith & Skeeters load of 7.5 grs Unique, I missed him running with the first shot but he couldn't fit under a lava rock & turned & faced me, the second shot really smoked him, this is #3 this year, the others were with my Bisley 41 & my model 60 S&W snubbie. This one will make somebody a very nice mount.  He's got really good claws & teeth & fatter than I am.   He's much bigger than a #14 dutch oven, I'll have to marinade him for several months.  Dick |
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« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2009, 06:46:40 AM » |
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Nice shooting.  What does badger taste like?  |
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« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2009, 09:52:27 AM » |
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Never tried one, if they taste like they smell you'd have to cook it outside for sure!
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« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2009, 09:57:31 AM » |
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I guess I got confussed when you refered to marinading it. I hadn't thought that people ate them: but my wife's mom ate possum and reportedly skunk,(I personnaly think they are pulling my leg on the skunk). I quit eating squirl after one of her sisters was cracking the skull to eat the brains.  |
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« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2009, 01:59:45 PM » |
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Wonderful pics and story! Thanks for sharing!
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« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2009, 02:24:49 PM » |
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He would make a nice fur hat.
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BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE.
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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2009, 02:34:04 PM » |
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X2 on the hat.
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2009, 02:43:30 PM » |
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;)Good shooting, that is a nice fur. Have several in my room ,but they were taken with rifles.....  |
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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2009, 04:33:06 PM » |
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Great pictures sixshot. Nice Badger.
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« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2009, 05:55:16 AM » |
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« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2009, 12:51:54 PM » |
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great job man don't get to see them around my area.
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« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2009, 07:54:41 PM » |
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I guess I got confussed when you refered to marinading it. I hadn't thought that people ate them: but my wife's mom ate possum and reportedly skunk,(I personnaly think they are pulling my leg on the skunk). I quit eating squirl after one of her sisters was cracking the skull to eat the brains. Squirrel brains are considered a delicacy in some parts of Kentucky and other places. They are finding an association with eating squirrel brains and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which is a Spongiform encephalopathy related to mad cow disease in people. When I was a medical student 30 years ago, they called it a "slow virus." Now they are called prions. You did right to stay away from the squirrel brains. Tom |
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« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2009, 08:09:44 PM » |
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Thanks for that info.  I try to follow my gut instinks. |
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« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2009, 10:16:24 PM » |
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My Grandpa always loved squirrel brains. I never tried them though.
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« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2009, 06:29:52 PM » |
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I'm always amused when I hear squirrel hunters talk about shooting them in the head, that's the one place we were taught not to shoot them. Those big jaw muscles, the tongue and of course the BRAINS, best part of a squirrel. I've eaten 1000s of them. It's like eating the marrow from bones. That's the one thing I miss here in Ut., no squirrels, #$%&* it.
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« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2009, 06:37:09 PM » |
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I wouldn't have made it had there not been an abundance of squirrel and rabbit around when I was growing up. For many years that was the meat in the pot at MOST meals.
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« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2009, 07:37:15 PM » |
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That would be about a $2000 meal here in Wisconsin !!
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« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2009, 03:21:51 PM » |
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Never tried one, if they taste like they smell you'd have to cook it outside for sure!
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They're in the Mustelidae Family the ones with malodorus anal glands:skunk;wolverine;weasel,fisher;etc. |
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« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2009, 05:57:05 AM » |
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Nice badger.
If memory serves me,(sketchy some days) I recall reading a story about a mountain man who was starving, and killed a badger, and was unable to eat it due to the horrid taste.
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« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2009, 09:50:52 AM » |
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Havalenas have a musk gland also, but are eaten here in Az. Great care is taken in dressing them to remove the gland first, also some merrinate in vinager. |
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« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2009, 11:28:07 AM » |
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rawhidekid, I was just joking about eating a badger, don't think you could eat one under any circumstances! Just skinning one is about more than you can stand, worse than a coyote. I'm sure eating a grizzly bear would be much better.....as long as he was dead!!
Spent last winter in Wickenburg, saw several Javelina right in town but didn't hunt them. I, like you was in the Air Force, several of the guys in the RV park were retired military. We would go for a 4 wheeler ride every tuesday out in the desert.
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« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2009, 05:47:17 PM » |
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Sounds cool, four wheelers out here are about one for every three houses. My hunting buddy has four, keeps on me to get one but I tell him I'll get by on one of his.  |
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« Reply #22 on: December 08, 2009, 10:33:28 PM » |
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Re squirrel brains ~ my mothers people (oklahoma) told of clubbing squirrels off their corn stalks and doing the brain thing. Fuzzy tailed tree rats never appealed to me, neither the head cheese or oxtail soup etc.
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« Reply #23 on: December 20, 2009, 10:33:05 AM » |
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That would be about a $2000 meal here in Wisconsin !!
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« Reply #24 on: December 20, 2009, 09:51:02 PM » |
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yeah. WI is the "Badger "state. It's a mortal sin to look cross-eyed at one much less kill it. Don't think you can shoot wooodchucks here either. Maybe some landowner exceptions.
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