Posted: 7/11/2017 10:56:25 PM EDT
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I have at least one armadillo that's been tearing up my front lawn and flower beds. What's the best way to dispatch him?
Do I just need to stay up all night on a stakeout with a pellet gun or is there any easier way to dissuade him from coming by? |
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A good broad spectrum insecticide. Kill off the food source and the 'Dillos will seek better buffets. They like grubs and such and in a neighborhood the insecticide is much better received in most cases. LOL
A 22LR or modern high power pellet rifle will do it, if you can catch them in the act. Happy Hunting,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,or how ever you decide to go at it. |
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i used to run stakeouts on my grandpas front porch. 22LR or .410 over the years were used on the dillos.
At a young age we sat together and as a right of passage somewhere around 9 or 10 I was solo. I killed many, many dillos out at that country home and was paid handsomely in Dairy Queen breakfast and free shooting. Get a kid involved if you can and spend some quality time together. |
| Back in the 60s my folks had a house built in a community called Woodway just west of Waco. Armadillos were fairly common because back then there was open country to our north and west. The Armadillos were hard on yards but my chow/cocker mix mongrel and my friend's GSD took them out regularly and without mercy. |
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I'll tell you from personal experience that a Crossman pump pellet gun pumped up 10 times will NOT kill an armadillo when shot in the head. That armadillo made a bunch of squeals and backflipped all over my yard spilling blood everywhere. Took a shovel to finish him off.
I live in the suburbs and discharging a firearm at 2am is not cool (read: illegal) and the fucker had to go. My dogs wanted to play with it and those things carry diseases I don't want to bring into the house. |
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I miss my armadillo killing days :-(
When I first moved to my house I put a Cadillac thermal camera ($300 on ebay) on a tripod and pointed it into the biggest area of my land. I ran a 100ft bnc cable to my television. During commercials or movie breaks .etc I flipped over to it to see if there were any dillos in the yard, if so I'd go outside sneak up on them and shoot them with a .22lr using IR and NODS. I killed almost 40 before they stopped appearing, it has been many years since I've seen an armadillo on my land. I kind of miss the hunt 
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