Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire So you think the honey badger is the baddest in the land?

victoro,

Fwiw, the famous author ROBERT C. RUARK said that American women have that in common with the honey badger. - In my experience, he was 100% CORRECT.

yours, tex

To All,

Within a year, there will be wild RHINOS running loose on several TX ranches, according to the early morning Allan Warren Hunting Show on WOAI AM Radio on Saturday mornings.

What I'm wondering is WHEN, rather than IF, the rhinos will be out on the roads & causing traffic fatalities, as other invasives are.

yours, tex

Looks photoshopped......

Honey badger ain’t scared

TRH - do you hunt?

Barry, once on Pasture Ridge above and east of Alomogordo I saw a cow buffalo or two. Close.

Gemsbok is certainly kicking the little honey badgers arse but if the sizes were reverse I doubt the Gemsbok would stand it’s ground much less go on the attack. The honey badger is a badass and the Gemsbok is still dinner on the hoof.

Don't know any thing about Honey Badgers, but a Gemsbok will put up a hell of a fight if wounded, a Gemsbok killed a ranch hand a few miles west of us about 5-6 years ago, we kill about 20 Gemsbok every year and I have danced with a couple of wounded ones, the old saying " Bring Enough Gun" comes to mind. Rio7

Took this one out there below the mountains.

Beautiful, I didn't know they were that BIG

That is a dandy. Nice bull.

Saw these photos a few months ago. From Namibia IIRC. The honey badger was euthanized and confirmed to have rabies.

New Mexico?

Yessir.

Was on a hunt in the Texas Hill Country a number of years ago and went to a high fenced operation to see what all they had. They had just about everything on that place and some very nice trophies if you could afford them. Saw a number of cape buffalos and a large herd of zebras.

As we headed back to the brand new pickup we road in I asked the guy what the meanest critter on the place was and he pointed to an Eland watching us from about 100 yards off.

He said that Eland was why he had a shiny new truck. He had been showing potential customers like us around and one guy tried to get closer to the eland to get a better picture. The eland charged, they all jumped in his truck and the eland beat the truck to a pulp. He said there had been many events with that eland and he was willing to drop the price if someone would shoot the dang thing. Was too high a price for me as I'd of had to buy a bigger freezer too.

He also said, "If he charges right now he would shoot the first guy to head towards his new truck!" I think he was serious.

Seven_Heaven,

Tell your friend that I have a 9.3x62mm Remington pump-rifle & the ability to deal with his "eland problem". = 286 grains of .366 JSP at 2400FPS will take a Cape Buff quite handily & solve rogue Elephant problems, too.

yours, tex

One story I heard was of a famous pistolero that had been dispatched to the 777 Ranch to kill a Gemsbok that had killed a worker there and had part of the workers shirt entangled in his horns.

Another was from a PH in Africa that had come up on a Gemsbok caught in a snare, as they pitched small rocks at the Gemsbok to gauge his awareness, he simply batted the rocks away with his horns, how's that for accuracy?

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but come on guys, this is so [bleep] "photoshopped" it isn't funny. E.g., look at the remainis of the HB that has apparently been moved, in the fake dust in pic 2. It's right in front of the Oryx. There may have been some interaction between the two, but this photo series isn't it.

Well, hell, looking further, maybe it is real. Damn, I need to do something better with my time...

same thought.