12-11-2007, 01:42 PM
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22's can go quite a distance on a ricochet. in this situation i would go for a hi powered pellet gun.
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12-11-2007, 03:10 PM
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Idaho Dave you don't want armadilos roaming around. They are pest! Dig every thing up, and sometimes will even live under your house. I personally agree with samuel, even if the houses are (closest is about 100 yards) pretty spread out. I don't want my neighbor comeing out of his house yelling because his window is broken either.
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12-11-2007, 03:39 PM
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lol that wouldn't be good. I guess we'll just have to disagree on this one. A good pellet rifle should do the job for everything except the armadillo. I don't know it it would penetrate the armor. The armadillo is primarily why I suggested the .22. Something else you could do is buy a trap from a farm supply and trap the armadillo then dispose of it however you see fit. That way you could kill the smaller stuff with the pellet rifle and not need something more powerful for the armadillo. I did that with a possum a couple weeks back when one was killing our chickens at night.
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12-11-2007, 04:11 PM
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i'd go w/ 4-10. but i have caught several with my hands. i was hog huntin and had one crawl on the 4 wheeler in the middle of some cat tails. i heard it comin thru and i thought it was a hog and was lookin 4 an exit stategy, lol. if you hit em w/ a spot light they seem to stay put a little better. heard about the leoprasy but never had anything fall off either
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12-11-2007, 04:25 PM
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I never heard about leprosy...but then we just started getting a lot of them around here. Before this year I'd never seen one.
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12-11-2007, 05:11 PM
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Well I hadn't actually seen one of the things den until today. I know i have several because I have seen three at one time! Today I discoverd ones den but nobody was home. I think tommorow I might just sneak up on him and pop him with my .22 LR and let him tast lead. I probubly will get a trap too but this one will go first.  Last edited by andrew cochran; 12-11-2007 at 05:31 PM. |
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12-12-2007, 12:57 AM
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Theres no absolute gurantee's that it would hit vegitation. Too many people have been killed or wounded by "freak" accidents. You know how far a .22lr will carry? I think gun safety would dictate not shooting a .22lr anywhere near a neighbor. I'll go with better safe than sorry. I once had a dillo run into my leg! I was walking across a field with grass about 1 1/2" high when I saw what looked like Bugs Bunny tunneling straight at me. I was too dumbfounded to move. When he hit me he jumped about 4 feet high and did a vanishing act. Blind and deaf little suckers!
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12-12-2007, 12:25 PM
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Yeah, a .22 LR can go a mile. I've seen plenty of the thinks around here but they always run when they see me. I must look scary of something. LOL
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