Badgers

[micky 3,325]

there is a thread running in the trapping section on badgers getting caught in cage traps,anyone caught them in long nets I had two in a net one night and I have one on two other outings .

[Tiercel 6,986]

Nope not yet, touch wood I never will. I bet they made a mess of the net though?

 

TC

[Country Joe 1,411]

The most unusual, I caught in my night netting, was my Whippet X Bedlington, the only time i took her netting,

i bantered the field and when i got to the net there was a few rabbits in it, but also neatly balled up was the dug.

fortunately, she hadn't struggled, and just waited for me to release, this was the first and only time I night netted with a dug.

[j1985 1,983]

Bet it was fun getting them out lol

[Giro 2,648]

Had a hedgehog, never a badger

[R.A.W 1,987]

sound like an expensive night out.

 

i thought i was going to have a drunken old man in my net one night . it was in the middle of nowhere . i could hear him singing as i started to drive them in good job i had the lamp on me because i would of never got him out of the net he was in a shape fair play.

[micky 3,325]

I thought I would have been more common but perhaps Leicestershire is a more fox/badger friendly area than a lot of places. The night I got the two we were on the second drop, we had just killed ten rabbits and we thought we were going to get a few more ,it was a blind drop which was nearly always good for a couple , we reached the net about centre and killed a couple, i could feel the top line twitching and worked my way down In the last twenty yards were two badgers all wrapped up they had rolled over and over and the net was wound up like a snare wire, there was nothing I could do other than go back to the motor and get my grafter to kill them with , 1960s] I fetched the spade but when I got to where they had been caught they had bitten there way out , half the net was ruined and I have never gone back , not netting anyway.

[Thequietman 3]

last season in between drops mate asked same question no i said lo and behold next drop cought two of the buggers one managed to get out but other was in hell of a tangle right next to a bloody holiday cottage waiting for flashin blue lights and sirens ha

[Mr Wilkes 2,979]

Plenty of hedgehogs but no badgers..saying that ive just dropped on some belting permission which does have a badger or two (so the old guy told us).looks like you best bring your welding gloves smithie.

[smithie 2,443]

well if we get one of them pigs i hope it rips through the net cos welding gloves or not i aint going near it.. but we might have some gloves that fit you

[mushroom 12,874]

I thought I would have been more common but perhaps Leicestershire is a more fox/badger friendly area than a lot of places. The night I got the two we were on the second drop, we had just killed ten rabbits and we thought we were going to get a few more ,it was a blind drop which was nearly always good for a couple , we reached the net about centre and killed a couple, i could feel the top line twitching and worked my way down In the last twenty yards were two badgers all wrapped up they had rolled over and over and the net was wound up like a snare wire, there was nothing I could do other than go back to the motor and get my grafter to kill them with , 1960s] I fetched the spade but when I got to where they had been caught they had bitten there way out , half the net was ruined and I have never gone back , not netting anyway.

Someone once told me "stamp on the head they have weak skulls" fuuck that for a laugh :laugh:

[smithie 2,443]

 

I thought I would have been more common but perhaps Leicestershire is a more fox/badger friendly area than a lot of places. The night I got the two we were on the second drop, we had just killed ten rabbits and we thought we were going to get a few more ,it was a blind drop which was nearly always good for a couple , we reached the net about centre and killed a couple, i could feel the top line twitching and worked my way down In the last twenty yards were two badgers all wrapped up they had rolled over and over and the net was wound up like a snare wire, there was nothing I could do other than go back to the motor and get my grafter to kill them with , 1960s] I fetched the spade but when I got to where they had been caught they had bitten there way out , half the net was ruined and I have never gone back , not netting anyway.

Someone once told me "stamp on the head they have weak skulls" fuuck that for a laugh :laugh:

 

 

 

i dont think they like you or there sense of humour is a bit twisted.. :laugh:

Edited June 3, 2013 by smithie

[mushroom 12,874]

 

 

I thought I would have been more common but perhaps Leicestershire is a more fox/badger friendly area than a lot of places. The night I got the two we were on the second drop, we had just killed ten rabbits and we thought we were going to get a few more ,it was a blind drop which was nearly always good for a couple , we reached the net about centre and killed a couple, i could feel the top line twitching and worked my way down In the last twenty yards were two badgers all wrapped up they had rolled over and over and the net was wound up like a snare wire, there was nothing I could do other than go back to the motor and get my grafter to kill them with , 1960s] I fetched the spade but when I got to where they had been caught they had bitten there way out , half the net was ruined and I have never gone back , not netting anyway.

Someone once told me "stamp on the head they have weak skulls" fuuck that for a laugh :laugh:

 

 

 

i dont think they like you or there sense of humour is a bit twisted.. :laugh:

 

I think twisted is the one :laugh:

[smithie 2,443]

the picture below was taken by mr wilks. its the worst thing i have had in a net. we had just walked the field in and killing the net. this was just by the last peg and i grabbed it thinking it was a rabbit.. i wasnt happy but it tickled mr wilks

 

 

theres no way i could have got this out but it wasnt the first one mr wilks had in a net and he did get it out with very little trouble

 

i hate hedgehogs

[Mr Wilkes 2,979]

the next time we do that drop ill move the little bugger to other side of dale.