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Re: Armadillos
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09/18/14 02:33 PM
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BMowatt
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Field point or small game blunt tip
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Re: Armadillos
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09/18/14 04:28 PM
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I think I would just use one of those g5 small game heads... that way penetration isn't the issue you just pummel them down Oh they pass thru! Just doesn't wreck a bladed broadhead in the process. Very strong armadillo medicine EWWWWW.... those things are NASTY, I can't imagine a pass through with that...
Sombody smells like fried borritos...
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Re: Armadillos
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09/18/14 08:48 PM
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Problem solved - all you need is some running shoes, a head lamp, and a 28 oz softball bat. Smoked two down last night - all this time trying to line up head shots with a .22 shooting shorts and I could have just used a $20 bat.....
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 12:04 AM
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If you will take a couple of 2x6s and lay them on the ground in a v shape leading to the opening of the live trap you can trap them pretty easily
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 12:40 AM
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I just noticed I have another one tearing up the backyard. I'll be up tonight with my headlamp and arrow nocked waiting for the lil sucker!
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 01:17 AM
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Well blunts were most effective followed by a shovel. Broad heads just bounced off. Broke an arrow with a field point. So far I concluded bow hunting them isn't super effective. I think I'm gonna go with the running shoe and baseball bat method. Them suckers aren't that fast.
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 01:27 AM
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Steel toe Redwing! Snuck up on one in Oklahoma on a hillside! Got a run and went for 3 points....he didn't get air but he rolled about 60 yards down hill before his gyro kicked back in!
Brayden (Lazy L's Southern Comfort) you will be missed! You were more than a pet you were my reason to rise and return for many days! You were my rock! 12/26/03-10/25/13
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 01:47 AM
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 03:26 AM
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I've got an old pair of red wing steel toes I won't wear anymore. There yours buddy!
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 03:38 AM
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Broadheads bounced off? I think you need some new broadheads. 3 shots 3 dead dillos
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 06:18 AM
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Maybe they were quartered away, dern it!
Man if I knew what Oxner knows I could throw away what I know
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 12:50 PM
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I had an uncle growing up in South Texas that would almost crash his car if he saw one on the road. He would stop get out and whack the armored varmint with a stick he carried in his car specially for that special occasion. He would take it home and cook it in his wood burning stove fueled with mesquite, and he called it bar-b-que. This was in the early 1950's I was probably five or six and I really enjoyed sharing of his bounty, I remember it tasting like pork. I ate a lot of things back then being raised by grandparents who were born at the turn of the century, not knowing any better. Too bad my uncle Joe has dearly departed, you could turn him loose in a field infested with those critters and soon they would eradicated off that parcel of land.
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 04:24 PM
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My mom was a depression era raised woman. I learned quick trapping to skin my animals in the field and leave the carcasses for the bears. Beaver, muskrat, coon. She didn't care. Meat was meat and the family had to eat. I just couldn't get past the smell of the dillo to clean it. Haven't shot one in probably 15+ years.
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Re: Armadillos
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09/20/14 10:15 PM
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I remember being a kid and coming home from baseball practice. There was a dead armadillo right under a "Don't mess with Texas" sign on the way there and on the way back there was a long neck handing out of its mouth and it was propped up just right on the pole. I thought it was funny. Kinda messed up now that I think of it.
Man if I knew what Oxner knows I could throw away what I know
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Re: Armadillos
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09/22/14 08:37 PM
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I've done the run them down and punt them before...defiantly got a "kick" out of it... baseball bat sounds like fun too, done a rabbit with the butt stock of a .17 hmr... he got air... giggled like a school girl lol
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Sombody smells like fried borritos...
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Re: Armadillos
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09/23/14 01:33 AM
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We need some serious help when we are entertained by messing around with possum on half shell!
Brayden (Lazy L's Southern Comfort) you will be missed! You were more than a pet you were my reason to rise and return for many days! You were my rock! 12/26/03-10/25/13
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Re: Armadillos
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09/23/14 01:34 AM
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I had an uncle growing up in South Texas that would almost crash his car if he saw one on the road. He would stop get out and whack the armored varmint with a stick he carried in his car specially for that special occasion. He would take it home and cook it in his wood burning stove fueled with mesquite, and he called it bar-b-que. This was in the early 1950's I was probably five or six and I really enjoyed sharing of his bounty, I remember it tasting like pork. I ate a lot of things back then being raised by grandparents who were born at the turn of the century, not knowing any better. Too bad my uncle Joe has dearly departed, you could turn him loose in a field infested with those critters and soon they would eradicated off that parcel of land. The one I field goaled was over on ridge east of home pond by ladder stand....you've spent time in that one!
Brayden (Lazy L's Southern Comfort) you will be missed! You were more than a pet you were my reason to rise and return for many days! You were my rock! 12/26/03-10/25/13
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Re: Armadillos
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09/23/14 02:04 PM
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Rowel; let me know if you plan on going back to your families ranch this year, I've sure enjoyed the times we hunted there. Sure be different now that feeders are allowed. I still like that ladder stand with the exception of the fence between you guys and that crazy "I'll shoot you neighbor". I lost a good buck on that side of the fence.
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Re: Armadillos
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09/23/14 10:49 PM
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A good air rifle would get it done pretty easily.
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Re: Armadillos
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09/24/14 03:01 PM
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Rowel; let me know if you plan on going back to your families ranch this year, I've sure enjoyed the times we hunted there. Sure be different now that feeders are allowed. I still like that ladder stand with the exception of the fence between you guys and that crazy "I'll shoot you neighbor". I lost a good buck on that side of the fence. If I go may have to take care of some varmints around the house that armadillos and raccoons look classy! So maybe more business than pleasure.
Brayden (Lazy L's Southern Comfort) you will be missed! You were more than a pet you were my reason to rise and return for many days! You were my rock! 12/26/03-10/25/13
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Re: Armadillos
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09/26/14 12:28 PM
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Just a side note. Armadillos carry leprosy. Yup, the Biblical kind.
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Re: Armadillos
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09/26/14 01:47 PM
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Just a side note. Armadillos carry leprosy. Yup, the Biblical kind. Yep that is true. Best to wear rubber gloves if you pick them up. Even better to use a shovel.
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Re: Armadillos
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09/26/14 02:47 PM
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Sometimes the same shovel you wack them with.
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Re: Armadillos
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09/26/14 05:30 PM
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Yep the shovel is where it's at. Had a high tech / low tech hunt the other day. Find em with a thermal and hit em with a shovel.
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Re: Armadillos
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09/26/14 05:49 PM
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Thought about trying to eat one once but couldn't get past the smell to clean it. You're a tougher booger than me. I hate touching the nasty things let alone trying to eat one. I bet they rank right up there with skunk and possum You'd be surprised. They do taste a lot like pork. I ate one just a few weeks ago.
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