Post by sixshot on Jan 16, 2023 13:19:16 GMT -5
I've always been a Buckeye fan, both football & the Ruger Blackhawk 32/20 convertible kind. Yesterday my oldest son & his wife were coming home from Lava Hot Springs, which is about 20 miles from home, its a little resort town with hot pools where you can soak your bones in the winter time. It was snowing as they were coming home & to their surprise Shane spotted a Badger that had dug out of his winter burrow to see what was going on. Shane noticed the fresh dirt over the fresh snow that was coming down.
He had his wife drop him off at my place & I grabbed my 32/20 Buckeye that was loaded with a 116 gr cast HP & we jumped in my Jeep & made a 7 mile dash back out to the cross road where they had spotted him, no luck, he had when back down into his den hole but we could see the fresh dirt where he had tunneled out.
Shane made a soft squeal to see if maybe he was still in there or maybe he had wandered off some place, we didn't know. We waited a couple of minutes & Shane made another squeal & up came a big old head looking straight at us & he opened his mouth like he was yawning or something. Shane held the scope just under his throat & touched it off & he disappeared in the den hole.
Going over he was just laying there, all he did was lay back down, he was dead on the spot from a perfect shot with the cast HP taking out his spine. He has a beautiful winter coat is only the 3rd Badger we've ever taken in December or January. It's very rare to ever see one or get a shot at one.
Dick
He had his wife drop him off at my place & I grabbed my 32/20 Buckeye that was loaded with a 116 gr cast HP & we jumped in my Jeep & made a 7 mile dash back out to the cross road where they had spotted him, no luck, he had when back down into his den hole but we could see the fresh dirt where he had tunneled out.
Shane made a soft squeal to see if maybe he was still in there or maybe he had wandered off some place, we didn't know. We waited a couple of minutes & Shane made another squeal & up came a big old head looking straight at us & he opened his mouth like he was yawning or something. Shane held the scope just under his throat & touched it off & he disappeared in the den hole.
Going over he was just laying there, all he did was lay back down, he was dead on the spot from a perfect shot with the cast HP taking out his spine. He has a beautiful winter coat is only the 3rd Badger we've ever taken in December or January. It's very rare to ever see one or get a shot at one.
Dick
