Another "What is it?"

[callshot]

This is a test...this is only a test. When you get your real life, you would know what kind of skull this is.

I have been accused of being frugal with my money. Some people would even tell you I boil the skull to get soup flavoring. How many of you can tell me what kind of soup I was having? What kind of skull is it? No it is not my first grade teacher or my first girlfriend. The taxidermist had the beetles clean the skull off so I did not get any soup.



This is the same skull but yawning. Notice the bottom left fang is missing. I can tell some of you already think you know what it is.


For all of those who did not know what this was, it was not a squirrel or rock chuck, it was an old badger. It had a snare around it's neck that had worn the fur off and become embedded in the flesh of the badger's neck. I assume the lower fang was lost when the badger chewed its way through a cable or chain attached to the snare. At least I hope that's the reason instead of why my teeth are falling out due to old age! In the tanning process there was not enough hide left for the taxidermist to make a full body mount so now it gets to lay on top of the fireplace until next winter. For those of you who got it right in the test, give yourself a pat on the back.


I'll see you down the trail!
Steve

[robl]

Nice Skull, looks just like a bear skull in miniture! Tough way to go...

[2 Dogs]

I thought he was gonna say it was his mother in law!!

[callshot]

Fermin, I did ask my mother in law for her gaul bladder when she passed because she was like a bear. We laughed about that often over the years.
Steve

[dmize]

The guy that taught me how to trap caught one in a coon set once
Area around the trap looked like a war zone,nothing was standing.
When he checked the trap the badger had dug the bait hole into a burrow of sorts,big hole with the chain going into it,when he pulled the chain he said all hell busted loose and Satan himself was coming.
He was in his late 50's and it was the first one he had ever seen.

[subsonic]

There is a world of difference between a coon and a badger!!! I would hate to get one when expecting the other!

[2 Dogs]

No kidding. I have seen some big mean coons that took some hard killing too. But the only critter I have ever seen tough enough to dig a hole into a caliche road was a Badger. Gotta be an onery SOB to be doing stuff like that....

[curmudgeon]

Badgers a little more like a Wolverine than a Coon.

[sheriff]

Funniest thing I ever saw was a badger using the 'walking, cycling' trail north of Jackson, Wy. You ought to have seen the tree huggers bailing off the trail. Wife said I ought to have stopped so she could have photo'd it for Dick and Steve, but I was trying to make Cody by dark and didn't........

[sixshot]

Russell, I've witnessed more than one stampede when a badger got irritated, been involved in some of them personally, its always more relaxing when the badger stops chasing you & heads for a hidey hole! ran right over one of my boys one time when a "dead" badger jumped right in my face!
This one of Callshots looks better than some of the dates he's been on lately! Actually some of them had no teeth!

Dick

[ericp]

The law here is (or maybe was) that there could be no holes in the hide of trapped badger as there is no hunting season on them. This meant you had to club them. The fella who wrote that reg never clubbed a badger caught in a foothold! I did it once and only once with no intention of doing it again. Found me a good sized branch and went over to it, that bugger was straining at the trap chain trying to get a piece of me! I had nasty thoughts of what it would do my lower extremities if I happened to knock it loose and proceeded to wail on it. I'm 6' 190 and was still boxing at the time yet it took 4 whacks (coming down vertically) before it gave up the ghost. Tough critter.


Eric

[dmize]

Yea 'ol Bill had a bad habit of not shooting anything,I didn't agree with that and I will not judge him ,but I put a 22 short in the brain bucket of EVERYTHING not caught in a drown set, and on this instance he went to the set with just his trusty trapping trowel/skull buster. He did say that the sweetest sound was that of the chain links going KLINK.
He did have a 22 rifle in the boat.