I HUNT IN LOUISIANA. I HAVE FOOD PLOTS ON MY LEASE AND THE ARMADILLOS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE. THEY ROOT UP PIECES OF THE PLOT LOOKING FOR GRUBS AND ROOTS. DO I NEED TO TARGET PRACTICE?

-RYAN

RYAN SMITH

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.22 mags work GREAT!

Hurry up and wait.

Possum on the half shell, they can destroy alot of ground if their population is not kept under control. Bruce is right 22mag, .223, 26-06 they can be alot of fun to control.

If you can catch them in the plot, walk ahead of the direction they are feeding in, take a solid 1" diameter stick about 4' long and pop them just behind the head when they get close enough. I have killed a pile of them this way. They have very poor vision.

22-250 from far range. Hours of fun and great practice.

And burniegoesasily its fun to watch them explode. I use a 220 swift.

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Yeah target practice works pretty good, but also try some diazinon granules on your ground, they kill the grubs and the dillos usually leave.

Edited by - strut on 10/24/2002 21:00:10

Target practice is fine just don't try it with a bow. Its hard on arrows! And I don't know about you boys but the ones in Oklahoma are known to be nocturnal. That they usually were.

We had one eating up the garden this year. We were having to spray heavy and granulate cause of grasshoppers. It didn't stop the armadilloes. They just came in and helped clean up the grasshoppers. I killed him but it takes a good load of shot with a 12 guage. Number 6 or lighter didn't work.

Oh did I mention it was more than one. By the time the summer was over I had killed a total of 8 and my lab accounted for one she drug out of a gully filled with last year's limbs. When I told her to get him it sounded like crumbling crackers.

Good luck and kill all those you can. Before the winter. Each female has perfect quadruplets.

Sooner

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