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Armadillo eating up our gardens
Posted on 8/17/23 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 8/17/23 at 8:45 pm
Waiting outside to shoot it, but it’s staying coming so darn late.
Any tips?
Any tips?
This post was edited on 8/17/23 at 8:49 pm
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Posted on 8/17/23 at 8:47 pm to Safety Blitz
You got a pellet gun? Stay up late, take care of it.
Posted on 8/17/23 at 9:00 pm to Safety Blitz
Live trap, bait-idk some worms??
Posted on 8/17/23 at 9:06 pm to White Bear
Set traps out…so far caught a raccoon and my neighbors cat.
Posted on 8/17/23 at 9:10 pm to Safety Blitz
Find a trail, set up food and a camera, make a blind. Set alarm!!!
But I saw a few days ago the local news was showing this. Be afraid,
:lol:
LINK .
But I saw a few days ago the local news was showing this. Be afraid,
:lol: LINK .
Posted on 8/17/23 at 9:25 pm to Safety Blitz
they love freshly watered flower beds with all this dry weather. Had to put a fence up around my caladiums since they were digging them up trying to find worms.
Posted on 8/17/23 at 9:57 pm to Safety Blitz
Mississippi Armadillo Trap
Yes sir, have the solution:
Like fella said, with this drought, armadillos are seeking out moisture loving grubs, worms.
I bought this based on a prior TD recommendation…isn’t cheap but I have captured 4…yes 4 armadillos in a week!
Each time you catch one, it “reseasons” the trap with armadillo scent. I had it in the woodline 20 yards from garden and no action first 3 days…put directly in garden and boom…4 in 4 days.
Do Not kill armadillo inside the trap…seems obvious but trap is heavy (it’s wood) with large armadillo inside…I opened 1st time thinking I’d shoot slow moving armadillo on way out…wrong!
They can run up to 30 mph…so the arc of fire as it circled back to my porch was something straight out of the OK Corral. I have a rotting armadillo under back porch because of said miscalculation!
Finally wised up…after 2nd one doing same balls of fire zigzag out of the gate…and placed my wire raccoon/possum trap at one end and then push armadillo out of wood trap into wire one.
Easier to transport away from house/garden and dispatch through wire and then dump.
Yes sir, have the solution:
Like fella said, with this drought, armadillos are seeking out moisture loving grubs, worms.
I bought this based on a prior TD recommendation…isn’t cheap but I have captured 4…yes 4 armadillos in a week!
Each time you catch one, it “reseasons” the trap with armadillo scent. I had it in the woodline 20 yards from garden and no action first 3 days…put directly in garden and boom…4 in 4 days.
Do Not kill armadillo inside the trap…seems obvious but trap is heavy (it’s wood) with large armadillo inside…I opened 1st time thinking I’d shoot slow moving armadillo on way out…wrong!
They can run up to 30 mph…so the arc of fire as it circled back to my porch was something straight out of the OK Corral. I have a rotting armadillo under back porch because of said miscalculation!
Finally wised up…after 2nd one doing same balls of fire zigzag out of the gate…and placed my wire raccoon/possum trap at one end and then push armadillo out of wood trap into wire one.
Easier to transport away from house/garden and dispatch through wire and then dump.
This post was edited on 8/17/23 at 9:59 pm
Posted on 8/17/23 at 10:11 pm to DefensorFortis
Having same problem in wife’s flower bed.
I have a cellular game camera in the bed.Much easier than checking every 15-20 minutes.They come between 10pm and 3 am.
I’ve killed 3 last 10 days.
I have a cellular game camera in the bed.Much easier than checking every 15-20 minutes.They come between 10pm and 3 am.
I’ve killed 3 last 10 days.
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 9:50 am
Posted on 8/17/23 at 10:15 pm to LSUA 75
They sleep like 16-18 hours a day…just enough time to come out and go nutty cakes on a garden.
Posted on 8/17/23 at 10:35 pm to DefensorFortis
quote:
so the arc of fire as it circled back to my porch was something straight out of the OK Corral. I have a rotting armadillo under back porch because of said miscalculation!
Posted on 8/17/23 at 10:40 pm to Spankum
I left out the part about shooting at said armadillo under front porch…which he soaked up like a bulldozer and ran under my boat trailer…I put another Stinger .22LR in him, which he again soaked up like Ali…ran from there to under back porch where he crawled into a tunnel I never knew existed…damn thing is stinking to high heaven but…I won in the end!
This post was edited on 8/17/23 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 8/17/23 at 10:47 pm to DefensorFortis
Ruger10/22, bourbon and good tunes. Stay awake and kill.
Posted on 8/17/23 at 10:49 pm to GREENHEAD22
How is one supposed to stay awake with Bourbon? I have enough issues taking them out sober.
Posted on 8/17/23 at 10:52 pm to DefensorFortis
It makes it a little bit of a challenge! I am in the bourbon right now so my judgement may be a little skewed.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:16 am to Safety Blitz
quote:It’s coming early- in the morning.
but it’s staying coming so darn late.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:18 am to Safety Blitz
Posted on 8/18/23 at 4:38 am to Safety Blitz
Cayenne pepper sprinkled around garden perimeter and around fresh diggings. I shoot them too but damn near impossible to totally eliminate, kinda like feral pigs.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:59 am to Safety Blitz
Armadillos destroyed my front yard earlier this summer. I came across a armadillo repellant called “Yard Guard” that worked very well for me. I also shot 3 of them with my 22 as i sat on the back porch and had my early morning coffee. So a combination of repellant and lead solved my problem. I haven't seen an armadillo in over 6 weeks and my yard shows no new signs of damage.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 6:05 am to Safety Blitz
Dealt with a few. Live trap is not effective at all unless you funnel it to the trap.
I used 1x10s and put them in V with trap and covered it so it looked like a hole it could pass through.
They do a lot of damage in one night.
I used 1x10s and put them in V with trap and covered it so it looked like a hole it could pass through.
They do a lot of damage in one night.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 8:28 am to Safety Blitz
I like to take them out with my primitive equipment!
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