Armadillo control- what works?

[STR]

A 410 or 20 gauge shotgun is all you need with just plain ole bird shot. Unless you are out in open country using a rifle seems a bit risky and over penetrating to me regardless of the caliber. Trust me here too because I've shot them with a rifle only to have them get in under my house or cabin and die there forcing me to have to crawl under and get em out. A shot gun kills em right off the bat and thats what you want.

STR

 

[cavetech]

THAT IS A PINZGAUER 710M!!

I had one for five years. Outstanding vehicle!

 

[stevomiller]

Stevo beat me to it...

A couple of pit bulls...you could sell tickets and beer for the show.

Tell me when showtime is.

I will give you guys a buzz when we are ready to start. If the dogs can't get them to unroll, my male dog will at least make them so dizzy that they will never come back for more. Sometimes he'll push a soccer ball around the backyard for an hour, just going nuts. Sooner or later he always manages to get a tooth into it, making it go flat then ripping it apart. I'm sure he would do the same to an armored long tail pig. Sometimes he catches gophers and ground squirrels in the backyard, and a occasional retarded bird (how does a 75 dog sneak up on a bird?).

A girl that I went to college with said that they had one as a pet back in Oklahoma. Kinda weird girl......

 

[kronckew]

 

[Yvsa]

BTW, they are a resevour for Hanson's Disease. Not to worry too much, the ground squirrils in California are resevour's of Black Plague. It's not like they were Deer Mice spreading death in their urine.

Yup, the only animal besides human kind to get leprosy. An armadillo hunter down in Tejas contracted leprosy, Hanson's Disease, a few years ago and was cured thanks to research with the cute little ground pigs.:thumbup:

One thing I've been told but have never seen is that the 'dillers have a very unique and highly tuned nervous system. When something scares them or they get shot just right they automatically go into a death leap escape jump.
That's why you see so many along the road, a car doesn't have to run over a 'diller to kill it. It's just that when a car passes over it at speed it scares the 'diller so bad it jumps and then gets tumbled by the car which kills it.
I worked with a gal that was once a deputy up at Chelsea, a small Okie town, where one of the make deputies shot and killed a 'diller on a ladies front porch. Zelda said that 'diller jumped right at the deputy and that he could have caught him if he hadn't thought he was being attacked and was squealing and acting like a scared little girl trying to get away from the damned thing.

And by all means if you shoot 'em be sure and clean 'em and fry 'em up like you would chicken or rabbit. 'Dillers got really nice sweet meat that's not too fat.:thumbup: