Ive been chased by one of those devils while bird hunting. At first I thought it was a bird dog! They can take a few rounds of 12 guage and keep kickin. Cool pic.
There is video out there of a guy chasing one of these down and picking it up with his bare hands. I think I would rather pull a cub grizzly out of its mother's arms, personally.
It was only about 5 yards away. I dang near could have reached over and pushed him in or at least swatted him on the head with an arrow anyway And wow was he pissed when he realized he wasn't alone!
There is video out there of a guy chasing one of these down and picking it up with his bare hands. I think I would rather pull a cub grizzly out of its mother's arms, personally.
I have a picture somewhere of my buddy holding one. This kid we know found some babies, so he took it home and raised it for a little while. It was still ornery as all get out. I think it ended up clawing the shit out of the kid's arm. Oh, when I say kid, I mean early 20s. I will try and find the picture. My buddy said he was scared s***less while holding it.
One year we were hunting elk in Wyoming (about 1990) and we had a cow and a bull skinned and quartered hanging in camp. Noticed that the cow head/hide was gone. After looking around I found it and started to pick it up and take it back to camp. A badger had dragged it off and dug a hole under it and was eating the small amount of neck meat left. When I picked it up, the Badger leaped out at me and started hissing. Scared the crap out of me. Got my .357 out and ...... Well there was one less Badger around camp!
Ya those little buggers definitely suffer from little guy syndrome. My uncle used to scare them out into the open when running a swather on the ranch, and whenever he did he'd go after them with nothing but a ball-peen hammer and go beast mode-mode on them. I just know they take a .223 bullet and keep fighting.