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re: Well Boys looks like the invasion has begun up north
Posted on 9/15/26 at 7:55 am to FLObserver
Posted on 9/15/26 at 7:55 am to FLObserver
used to wear the heck out of a roadkill cafe shirt like this in the 90s.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:03 am to FLObserver
Just remember that if you sneak up on one and go to grab it, grab fast. When it senses you it will jump straight up. ( Don't ask me how I know this).
That's why most die on the highway.
That's why most die on the highway.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:07 am to FLObserver
Rat with a shell, disgusting creatures
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:24 am to FLObserver
I’m kinda surprised I haven’t seen a single one since I moved to the Atlanta area 20ish years ago. I know they’re up there. I see lots of deer. I’ve had turtles, foxes and possum and coyotes in my yard. Never these though.
A strange thing has been happening the last two weeks or so. I walk my dog around 10:00 every night. Almost every night, including the last three in a row, a doe and her quickly growing fawn are in the same neighbors yard in the exact same spot about 10 feet from the sidewalk. They don’t give a shite about me or the dog. They just stand there looking at us. I guess they don’t want to trigger the dog to chase?
A strange thing has been happening the last two weeks or so. I walk my dog around 10:00 every night. Almost every night, including the last three in a row, a doe and her quickly growing fawn are in the same neighbors yard in the exact same spot about 10 feet from the sidewalk. They don’t give a shite about me or the dog. They just stand there looking at us. I guess they don’t want to trigger the dog to chase?
This post was edited on 9/15/26 at 8:25 am
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:39 am to Rex Feral
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The scream when you shoot them. It's kind of creepy.
Haven't been around enough of them to hear that.
Have heard squirrels do it tho. Sounds just like a human infant. Indeed, creepy.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:49 am to X123F45
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Don't use anything but a .22
A single .22 is more deadly to them than 10 .45 rounds
Very true. Probably 20 years ago, my mother in law's husband at the time took us out to his land to shoot clays, ride 4 wheelers, and hang out. We were driving back from where we had been shooting, he stops the truck, grabs the revolver in the door, and unloads on an armadillo. When he got back in someone asked why he shot it so many times. He said the first 3 bounced off the shell.
A few years after that I was down visiting my relatives, when my Uncle grabbed a .22 he kept by the door, slipped out the back, and fed one to an armadillo. He said unless you run one down his throat it will likely bounce off. And he told me that a .22 has a better chance of slipping through than a 9mm or a .45.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:51 am to FLObserver
One of these I put down dropped right where it was shot. The blood killed the grass and it took it a year to come back.
Have killed many of them, but never had one's blood do that to the grass.
Have killed many of them, but never had one's blood do that to the grass.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:54 am to FLObserver
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What type of advice would you like to give the northerners on how to deal with their new tenants?
Year after year I fought those bastards. They are mostly nocturnal. One summer, hot and dry, I removed and mostly killed fifty. Next year I got a trap from The Armadillo Company and caught and released forty or fifty.
Now, I just let them turn over the dirt in the flower beds. I will fill the hole and then pull the weeds, smooth everything out and put down mulch. They go dormant in the winter.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:09 am to TuckyTiger
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Seeing them more and more on the shoulder of the highway dead, here in central Ky. They followed me up here when I moved lol
They must have migrated because I don’t see a fraction of the number of armadillos that I used to see here in rural Louisiana.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:32 am to High C
Got a colony on the back ridge of the farm here in the Missouri Ozarks. I'll walk back there on a sunny winter afternoon and pot them when they come out for warmth. A 9mm or a 45 blows through them from any angle. They jump 2 feet in the air when hit, quite entertaining. Vultures clean them up fast.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:35 am to FLObserver
Id rather have armadillos than feral hogs.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 11:37 am to AwgustaDawg
About 1950 I saw an alligator killed by a man fishing in Mississippi R in W Tn just south of of the Ky/Tn line. They are just returning to what used to be theirs.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 12:25 pm to GeauxElliott
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Just remember that if you sneak up on one and go to grab it, grab fast. When it senses you it will jump straight up. ( Don't ask me how I know this).
That's why most die on the highway.
The scientific reason for this is so they don't go straight to Hell when they die.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 1:06 pm to Rex Feral
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Any other advice they could use to prepare for these invaders?
The scream when you shoot them. It's kind of creepy.
Aim good and all they will do is drop in their tracks. I use my Dad's old single shot bolt action 22 and Stinger ammo. I put a light and a laser sight on it. I killed one last week around 6 PM and it seems like I have more diggings in my yard than before. The hardest part is catching them in the act of tearing up your lawn and flower beds.
This post was edited on 9/15/26 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 9/15/26 at 1:11 pm to MBclass83
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Reminder to not touch the carcass of dead ones due to the microorganisms that cause leprosy live in the animal. Micobacterium Leprae.
When I was about ten years old we caught one and played with it. Am I gonna get leprosy?
Posted on 9/15/26 at 1:11 pm to GeauxElliott
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Just remember that if you sneak up on one and go to grab it, grab fast. When it senses you it will jump straight up. ( Don't ask me how I know this).
You can shoot one with a nuclear missile, and it’s still gonna manage to jump three feet in the air before it dies.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 1:19 pm to FLObserver
They love to come out after a rain during daylight hours. They can't hear for shite. So if you move quietly you can walk right up on them and BLAM.
Be advised, they bleed like a stuck pig and if you don't kill them immediately they're going to flop around or run up under your porch or under your house. I suggest an accurate shot if using a bullet. Preferable to a rifle or pistol would be a shotgun with #6 or lighter at a reasonably close range. Hit them with #6 at about 30' and they won't move at all.
Well other than backwards.
Be advised, they bleed like a stuck pig and if you don't kill them immediately they're going to flop around or run up under your porch or under your house. I suggest an accurate shot if using a bullet. Preferable to a rifle or pistol would be a shotgun with #6 or lighter at a reasonably close range. Hit them with #6 at about 30' and they won't move at all.
Well other than backwards.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 1:20 pm to FLObserver
Stand aside and tremble. The armored assault opossums have arrived.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 1:24 pm to Jim Rockford
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When I was about ten years old we caught one and played with it. Am I gonna get leprosy?
Same with me. Now, I like to chase them down and beat them to death with my arm that rotted off.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:24 pm to High C
PCC is the way to go with these. Though I can tell you shooting one in the arse with a .50-70 Sharps Carbine produces spectacular results.
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