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Post by sixshot on Oct 24, 2017 20:52:21 GMT -5
Today was the last day of the early bull hunt & a local kid happened to get "sick" & missed school & took off on an elk hunt all by himself. Good kid, I see him quite often & he got a dandy! A few days ago a local rancher got in touch with me & said he was having a real war with badgers, said they were tearing up the area around his barns & sheds & wanted to know if I would look into it for him. I told him I would love to Well, I got out there, located the hidden key & drove into a remote area where few people ever go. Indeed he did have a badger problem, there were holes everywhere. What I found was he had a family of badgers that had taken up residence on his place, the 2 badgers I saw were about the same size, not big but nice, well furred badgers. I got one of them & I'll go back for the others if an elk doesn't get in the way. I was going to give this one away like I always do but it's a bit small, although the claws were nice. I'll see if I can't get a bigger one in the coming days. My weapon of choice was my 8 shot Blackhawk 327 maggie using a 113 gr HP with 13 grs of H110. These are powder coated & are nasty when they whack something, badgers hate them. As usual the holster is my wonderful Barranti crossdraw.   Dick |
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Post by cmh on Oct 24, 2017 21:08:17 GMT -5
He got a dandy for sure..... good for that young man š Nice badger š
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Post by bushog on Oct 24, 2017 21:09:58 GMT -5
Both very nice!
I love those bulls with the dark racks and white tips.
I wish we had more badgers around here.......
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Post by Joe S. on Oct 24, 2017 21:30:25 GMT -5
Man what beautiful trophies! Congrats to you both!
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Post by kings6 on Oct 24, 2017 21:36:31 GMT -5
He didn't skip school, he went on a biology field trip! I remember being in a bout 4th grade and going to see the principal and telling him I was going to miss school to go hunting with my family. He looked at me for a minute then simply said bring him a package of steak when I got back! I loved growing up in a small rural town.
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Post by f3 on Oct 24, 2017 21:57:37 GMT -5
I can't even imagine shooting something like that at his age. You wouldn't be able to remove my smile with an angle grinder.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Oct 24, 2017 22:06:38 GMT -5
King6, I can remember being in high school and having the vice principal have us park our trucks and jeeps in front of his office so he could keep an eye on our shotguns while we were in class and planning on dove hunting after school, that was in a major city in Texas.
Nice bull and nice badger, I wanna see you with a cow!!!
Trapr
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Post by dougader on Oct 24, 2017 22:23:34 GMT -5
My grandmother turned in my Dad to his school principal when he took off school to go hunting. Busted. Which I don't get because Valsetz was a small, very rural town.
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Post by sixshot on Oct 25, 2017 1:51:15 GMT -5
I didn't find this out until years later but my next door neighbors who are both school teachers told me the story. One of my son's (Travis) skipped school with a buddy & went hunting Rock Chucks all day. The next day at school Mr. Cranor ask Travis why he was absent & Travis told him he had to go to a funeral. Mr. Cranor ask him who died & he said, Chuck, my uncle Chuck! Funny, no obituary in the paper....
Dick
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Post by magman on Oct 25, 2017 5:25:19 GMT -5
In my very rural town, they used to expect opening day there would be lots of absent kids. Now hunting season starts on Saturday. Just not as much fun.
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Post by Robster on Oct 25, 2017 6:12:07 GMT -5
Great looking bull!!!! Lotta great steaks in there.
Cool badger I like the claws.
Love that Barranti crossdraw. Great looking holster holding a great looking .327
Congrats all around on a great day
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Post by magnumwheelman on Oct 25, 2017 6:15:32 GMT -5
dang you guys... I sure love Elk... but have never had the opportunity to shoot one yet... & you guys keep posting pics of these young people with incredible looking animals...
there is an Elk farm about 20 miles from here, wonder how much weight out of my wallet I'd have to trade for a 1/4 of Elk meat???
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Post by paulg on Oct 25, 2017 7:01:40 GMT -5
Mr. Thompson, other than the grip panels you made and Iām sure your front sight, is there any other mods you did on your .327? Iād skip a whole week of school for a chance at that!
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Post by bula on Oct 25, 2017 8:25:33 GMT -5
After bagging an Elk like that whats left for that poor young man ? Guess he;ll have to take up chasing Watusi.
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Post by contender on Oct 25, 2017 8:45:31 GMT -5
Knowing how small Soda Springs is,,, I'd wonder if that young man wasn't kin to you & your clan. He got a nice bull,,, and did it by himself. That says a LOT about him! Tell him "Congrats" from all of us when you see him again!
And I'm not surprised that a badger got you away from chasing an elk. Looks like "one down, one to go" so to speak. Excellent all around!
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