Post by Doc Barranti on Jul 17, 2009 5:07:42 GMT -5
Last night was a pretty good night for hunting so myself & Callshot decided to try it again, I took him to another one of my honey holes. He's lived here all his life & never been in this spot before :wink: its pretty remote.
We smoked several ground squirrels along the way & all of a sudden Steve said, there's a badger. It was on his side & I didn't see it, we stood there for several minutes watching in the tall grass, it wasn't a real likely looking spot for a badger but he swore he spotted one. I crossed a barb wire fence & started easing along a small stream. After going about 100 yds a big badger came barreling down the bank to my right & headed out across the big green meadow, I was just about to go to work on him with the 32 maggie when a second badger did the same thing, I was shocked, this was only the 3rd time in 50+ years of badger whacking that I've seen 2 together, same thing happened last year & I got one of them.
After running 30 yds or so the second badger turned back towards me & starting running for the sagebrush, I sent 3 shots his way but nothing connected & he went down a hole. I headed out after the first one but couldn't locate him & headed back :cry: I was really torqued, I had the chance to bust 2 of them & struck out, dang it!
First photo is Callshot with a ground squirrel he busted at 36 yds with his 357 Blackhawk.
This is an "unnamed river, very good trout fishing, I hauled some real arm yankers out of there.
This is me drawing down on a ground squirrel.
I know this looks like a bear den but its a fresh badger hole, its huge!
Nice scenery shot of part of the huge meadows in the area.
I'll be back there in the next day or two, there were badger digs all over the place.
Dick
We smoked several ground squirrels along the way & all of a sudden Steve said, there's a badger. It was on his side & I didn't see it, we stood there for several minutes watching in the tall grass, it wasn't a real likely looking spot for a badger but he swore he spotted one. I crossed a barb wire fence & started easing along a small stream. After going about 100 yds a big badger came barreling down the bank to my right & headed out across the big green meadow, I was just about to go to work on him with the 32 maggie when a second badger did the same thing, I was shocked, this was only the 3rd time in 50+ years of badger whacking that I've seen 2 together, same thing happened last year & I got one of them.
After running 30 yds or so the second badger turned back towards me & starting running for the sagebrush, I sent 3 shots his way but nothing connected & he went down a hole. I headed out after the first one but couldn't locate him & headed back :cry: I was really torqued, I had the chance to bust 2 of them & struck out, dang it!
First photo is Callshot with a ground squirrel he busted at 36 yds with his 357 Blackhawk.
This is an "unnamed river, very good trout fishing, I hauled some real arm yankers out of there.
This is me drawing down on a ground squirrel.
I know this looks like a bear den but its a fresh badger hole, its huge!
Nice scenery shot of part of the huge meadows in the area.
I'll be back there in the next day or two, there were badger digs all over the place.
Dick
