The first badger I can remember seeing was when I was about 10 years old. Dad had cornered it against a hog wire fence and clubbed it with a jack handle. Car jack handle is maybe 15-18" long which is considerably closer than was prudent. Dad was pretty "feisty" back then and it worked at least once.
A decade later, my soon to be Father in law commented that he had a groundhog digging in an old pit silo behind his barn. I made a somewhat clumsy leghold trap set in front of the excavation one morning and when I checked in the evening the trap had disappeared into a large crater but the chain was still visibly attached to the 3/8" rebar stake. I wasn't all that concerned about a FTF with a groundhog so I just hooked the trap chain with the 3/8" rebar trap hook I carried to retrieve water sets. One good tug and I was confronted by a VERY irate badger. It hit the end of the trap chain about 3" from my boot toes. Like the young buck in the video, I had an image to uphold so only took one step back and crowned the badger with the trap hook. End of story, time for lemonade.
A decade later, my soon to be Father in law commented that he had a groundhog digging in an old pit silo behind his barn. I made a somewhat clumsy leghold trap set in front of the excavation one morning and when I checked in the evening the trap had disappeared into a large crater but the chain was still visibly attached to the 3/8" rebar stake. I wasn't all that concerned about a FTF with a groundhog so I just hooked the trap chain with the 3/8" rebar trap hook I carried to retrieve water sets. One good tug and I was confronted by a VERY irate badger. It hit the end of the trap chain about 3" from my boot toes. Like the young buck in the video, I had an image to uphold so only took one step back and crowned the badger with the trap hook. End of story, time for lemonade.