Scratch one off the hit list.

[Lars]

For years I have been trying to take a Badger and I finally got the job done. I shot one two years ago with my .223 while antelope hunting but he made it to his hole and I lost him. This year my new 6x45 AR did the job and I can scratch one off the list. I can't wait to get her back from the taxidermist next year. It's no huge bull elk or a monster muley but to take a furred up and pretty Badger ranks just as high for me.

[Irving]

That's cool, where do they live?

[buffalobo]

On the prairie mostly. Tough bastages.

He will make great trophy.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim

[Irving]

How do you find them? I haven't run into one out there, but do know where some big holes are that I've always wondered what lives in them.

[buffalobo]

Badgers tend to be transient and solitary, they like it quiet and will leave the area if any human or other animal activity.

I see them primarily when they burrow into bar ditch embankment along the highway. Or next to fence post where I need to repair fence.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim

[sniper7]

Very cool!ivepassed onacouple in the past and regretted it. Next one won't be so lucky!

[Colorado Osprey]

How are you liking the 6x45. I know it seems to hit harder compared to the parent case of the .223 anchoring animals faster with more DRT's. My experience is far fewer runners in coyotes.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Wow!

[Lars]

How are you liking the 6x45. I know it seems to hit harder compared to the parent case of the .223 anchoring animals faster with more DRT's. My experience is far fewer runners in coyotes.

So far I'm really liking the 6x45. It definitely hits harder and I've noticed less runners when shooting yotes. This damn badger though managed to take it like a champ and managed to get back to her hole. I found her about an arms length deep and she still wanted to fight.

[Lars]

How do you find them? I haven't run into one out there, but do know where some big holes are that I've always wondered what lives in them.

All the Badgers I've come across have been happen chance sighting, while out hunting the prairie country or while we were moving cows. Spotting one during the winter months when they are furred up and actually in season is no easy task.