collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Is this a Badger?  (Read 4035 times)

Offline Dhoey07

  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2011
  • Posts: 3274
  • Location: Parts Unknown
    • No Facebook for this guy
Is this a Badger?
« on: November 28, 2017, 08:56:34 AM »
Can you guys help me out please?  I saw this guy out turkey hunting this year and got a few pics with my phone, one is awfully blurry but the other is decent.  We have had sightings of this kind a few times in the last couple years.

Thanks.

Offline bobcat

  • Global Moderator
  • Trade Count: (+14)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 38900
  • Location: Rochester
    • robert68
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2017, 08:58:13 AM »
Yes

Offline JakeLand

  • WA State Trappers Association
  • Trade Count: (+27)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 4105
  • Location: Wet side
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2017, 09:12:24 AM »
100% and they're pretty cool critters

Offline 7mmfan

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 5374
  • Location: Marysville
    • https://www.facebook.com/rory.oconnor.9480
I hunt, therefore I am.... I fish, therefore I lie.

Offline 7mmfan

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 5374
  • Location: Marysville
    • https://www.facebook.com/rory.oconnor.9480
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2017, 09:24:59 AM »
And also very cool. I've never seen one, just the massive holes they dig. I wouldn't want to end up cornered in a dark alley with one of those guys.
I hunt, therefore I am.... I fish, therefore I lie.

Offline Tiger1358

  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Sep 2013
  • Posts: 396
  • Location: King County
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2017, 10:06:14 AM »
Yep, a badger.
I haven't seen one here, but have trapped a few back in Europe. They're pretty aggressive when you get really close to them. Just a heads up to not let a dog or anything get close to it, their jaws are pretty strong.

Offline Boss .300 winmag

  • FLY NAVAL AVIATION
  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (+22)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2010
  • Posts: 17764
  • Location: Skagit Valley
  • How do you measure trying, you do, or you don’t.
"Just because I like granola, and I have stretched my arms around a few trees, doesn't mean I'm a tree hugger!
Hi I'm 8156, our leader is Bearpaw.
YOU CANNOT REASON WITH A TIGER WHEN YOUR HEAD IS IN ITS MOUTH! Winston Churchill

Keep Calm And Duc/Ski Doo On!

Offline DOUBLELUNG

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 5836
  • Location: Wenatchee
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2017, 10:09:03 AM »
Yes it is.  One of my favorite critters.
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

Offline bhawley76

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2013
  • Posts: 915
  • Location: curlew wa
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2017, 10:41:32 AM »
Way cool!

Offline jackmaster

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Nov 2010
  • Posts: 7011
  • Location: graham
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2017, 10:57:50 AM »
Looks like that critter was about to charge you :chuckle: wouldn't mind getting one of those rascals for the fur pole !!!
my grandpa always said "if it aint broke dont fix it"

Offline Dhoey07

  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2011
  • Posts: 3274
  • Location: Parts Unknown
    • No Facebook for this guy
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2017, 11:29:39 AM »
Looks like that critter was about to charge you :chuckle: wouldn't mind getting one of those rascals for the fur pole !!!

Well, I owe my old man an apology then  :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
He first saw one at this place probably 5 years ago and I told him that no way did he see a badger out here.  Then, last year I saw one and thought it had to be one of these,
Then comes this year, when I see another one and he's just moseying around under a rock face and working his way towards me.  I snap a couple pics and confirm that it's just some kind of marmot  :dunno:  :chuckle:  Well in the paper on sunday they have an article about the rarely seen badger,  http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/nov/26/rarely-seen-badgers-slow-their-digging-frenzies-as/
and I figure I needed to take another look at my pictures.

He seemed really docile and I guess I was just expecting a more aggressive, snarling animal if it was in fact a badger.

Are these sightings rare enough that I should let WDFW know?

Offline JDHasty

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Old Salt
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2015
  • Posts: 6903
  • Location: Tacoma
  • Groups: NRA Benefactor Member, GOA Life Member, Father of 3 NRA Life Members
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2017, 11:44:19 AM »
Looks like that critter was about to charge you :chuckle: wouldn't mind getting one of those rascals for the fur pole !!!

Well, I owe my old man an apology then  :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
He first saw one at this place probably 5 years ago and I told him that no way did he see a badger out here.  Then, last year I saw one and thought it had to be one of these,
Then comes this year, when I see another one and he's just moseying around under a rock face and working his way towards me.  I snap a couple pics and confirm that it's just some kind of marmot  :dunno:  :chuckle:  Well in the paper on sunday they have an article about the rarely seen badger,  http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/nov/26/rarely-seen-badgers-slow-their-digging-frenzies-as/
and I figure I needed to take another look at my pictures.

He seemed really docile and I guess I was just expecting a more aggressive, snarling animal if it was in fact a badger.

Are these sightings rare enough that I should let WDFW know?

They are not that rare.  I tend to find pockets of them once I have located one.  Don't mess with them, they can rip you wide open with their claws and/or teeth.  I don't think it is legal to shoot them here, trapping only. 

Offline HookedOnQuack

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Oct 2012
  • Posts: 282
  • Location: Spanaway
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2017, 02:56:37 PM »
Looks like that critter was about to charge you :chuckle: wouldn't mind getting one of those rascals for the fur pole !!!

Well, I owe my old man an apology then  :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
He first saw one at this place probably 5 years ago and I told him that no way did he see a badger out here.  Then, last year I saw one and thought it had to be one of these,
Then comes this year, when I see another one and he's just moseying around under a rock face and working his way towards me.  I snap a couple pics and confirm that it's just some kind of marmot  :dunno:  :chuckle:  Well in the paper on sunday they have an article about the rarely seen badger,  http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/nov/26/rarely-seen-badgers-slow-their-digging-frenzies-as/
and I figure I needed to take another look at my pictures.

He seemed really docile and I guess I was just expecting a more aggressive, snarling animal if it was in fact a badger.

Are these sightings rare enough that I should let WDFW know?

They are not that rare.  I tend to find pockets of them once I have located one.  Don't mess with them, they can rip you wide open with their claws and/or teeth.  I don't think it is legal to shoot them here, trapping only.

 :yeah:you are correct Hasty,only legal to trap in WA. My bro just shot one last week in some deep snow on our Idaho deer hunt, at the taxi now  :tup:

Offline nwwanderer

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2010
  • Posts: 4161
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2017, 02:58:27 PM »
Badger it is.  Quite a few on the dry side.  Pay attention, lots of loose skin and a bite beyond compare. 

Offline STIKNSTRINGBOW

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2008
  • Posts: 4295
  • Location: Chehalis
    • https://www.facebook.com/stiknstring.bow
Re: Is this a Badger?
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2017, 07:50:46 PM »
Had one chase me up in Manastash one time.
Little bugger hissed and came at me, I ran.. Did not even think about it..
The mountains are calling and I must go."
- John Muir
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
- John Burroughs
NASP Certified Basic Archery Instructor
NASP Certified Basic Archery Instructor Trainer

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

CVA optima V2 LR tapped hole for front sight by trophyhunt
[Today at 06:05:35 AM]


Let’s see your best Washington buck by HntnFsh
[Today at 05:33:38 AM]


Bearpaw Season - Spring 2024 by actionshooter
[Yesterday at 09:43:51 PM]


Walked a cougar down by MADMAX
[Yesterday at 08:31:53 PM]


Which 12” boat trailer tires? by timberhunter
[Yesterday at 08:22:18 PM]


Lowest power 22 round? by JakeLand
[Yesterday at 08:06:13 PM]


1x scopes vs open sights by JakeLand
[Yesterday at 07:29:35 PM]


Long Beach Clamming Tides by Encore 280
[Yesterday at 05:16:00 PM]


WTS Suppressors I Can Get by dreadi
[Yesterday at 03:30:33 PM]


SB 5444 signed by Inslee on 03/26 Takes Effect on 06/06/24 by Longfield1
[Yesterday at 03:27:51 PM]


Straight on by kentrek
[Yesterday at 03:04:53 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2024, SimplePortal