Posted: 8/2/2014 12:55:25 PM EDT
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Living in the suburbs is limiting my choices of weapons. Will a pellet rifle with a velocity of over 2400 fps cause any damage to a body shot? A crossbow at 310 fps? A Colibri 22lr?
Or a combination of all 3??? Thanks 
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Just trap them unless you want to hunt them.
A 22LR subsonic round - with a 22 inch barrel ( or longer ) closed bolt rifle ( bolt, lever, pump ) is ideal. http://www.wildlife-removal.com/armadillotrap.html 
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Oops...typo...pellet gun does 1400 fps....I've hit a couple of them with it...maybe takes too long for them
to become fertilizer..... 
Well going hunting tonight ....cooler full of water Will update and thanks for the input... All the neighbors tried trapped last year and mot one was caught. Going to punish with extreme prejudice..... |
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Oops...typo...pellet gun does 1400 fps....I've hit a couple of them with it...maybe takes too long for them to become fertilizer.....
Well going hunting tonight ....cooler full of water Will update and thanks for the input... All the neighbors tried trapped last year and mot one was caught. Going to punish with extreme prejudice..... 1400 is more that enough, but shot placement is key to a fast knockdown. Lots of open, non-kill areas under armor. Happy hunting. Like others have said, be careful about direct contact. They carry some nasty deseases. |
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Just trap them unless you want to hunt them. A 22LR subsonic round - with a 22 inch barrel ( or longer ) closed bolt rifle ( bolt, lever, pump ) is ideal. http://www.wildlife-removal.com/armadillotrap.html http://www.wildlife-removal.com/images/armadillosetup.jpg http://www.wildlife-removal.com/images/armadillotrap.jpg How is the decibels using subsonic in a 6 inch SSA ? |
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Just trap them unless you want to hunt them. A 22LR subsonic round - with a 22 inch barrel ( or longer ) closed bolt rifle ( bolt, lever, pump ) is ideal. http://www.wildlife-removal.com/armadillotrap.html http://www.wildlife-removal.com/images/armadillosetup.jpg http://www.wildlife-removal.com/images/armadillotrap.jpg How is the decibels using subsonic in a 6 inch SSA ? LOUD. You need a 22 inch barrel and closed breech to keep the noise way down. |
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Lived in Texas almost 2 years now and I have never seen a live one, just a shit load of road kill I think I saw a live one about a month ago, right in a middle of a residential area in north Fort Worth -- near where I live. Was pulling out of the subdivision and I saw something crawling in the grass. Didn't get a great look at it, but it was squat and about the right size and color for an armadillo. |
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Got this one at 515am this morning.....came within 15 feet getting ready to jump in my flower bed. Got a clean body shot to his right side and boy did he jump. Went to reload the pellet rifle and found him hiding in my flowerbed...Gave him 2 more pellets and a Colibri... went and got my pellet pistol and gave it to him again.... Saw a lot of blood on hisright side. He's now laying on the property line with my neighbor whose going hunting with me tonight. Those new steel ball point pellets work great. |
I have one word of advice never grab a dead one by the tail and toss it over your fence. Especially one that you just shot with a 115gr 9mm Hydrashock with a gaping one inch hole in its side. You might come back inside to your wife looking like Hannibal Lecter after a snack. 
Good shooting OP, I have a few in my yard that need to be dispatched as well. |
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I think I saw a live one about a month ago, right in a middle of a residential area in north Fort Worth -- near where I live. Was pulling out of the subdivision and I saw something crawling in the grass. Didn't get a great look at it, but it was squat and about the right size and color for an armadillo. Quoted:
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Lived in Texas almost 2 years now and I have never seen a live one, just a shit load of road kill I think I saw a live one about a month ago, right in a middle of a residential area in north Fort Worth -- near where I live. Was pulling out of the subdivision and I saw something crawling in the grass. Didn't get a great look at it, but it was squat and about the right size and color for an armadillo. I'm up in Saginaw. We have armadillos, possums, bobcats, coyotes and racoons in town and around. We had someone recently who had his dog attacked by a 'yote in one of the parks in the middle of the day. |
Saw 2 of these little guys one night a few weeks ago on the apt complex property. I was standing with my foot right on the edge of that curb, damn thing walked right over my foot like I wasn't even there. When I first saw them they were rolling around in the wet grass like a couple of dogs playing. The other one was off in the distance by the time I took this picture. I have seen a lot more wild life here in N Irving in the last couple years, including coyotes walking down residential streets at night.
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Saw 2 of these little guys one night a few weeks ago on the apt complex property. I was standing with my foot right on the edge of that curb, damn thing walked right over my foot like I wasn't even there. When I first saw them they were rolling around in the wet grass like a couple of dogs playing. I don't think they hear well and they are just about blind. Had a very funny time spiting on one while hunting that evolved into touching it between the ears with the barrel of my rifle. Fun ended when I grabbed its tail and wound up picking sand out of my ears for a couple of days. Will probably never kill one again. Last one I shot with a 30-06. Blew its guts out, then the guts started squirming. On closer inspection, it was four little fully formed unborn dillos. They were white, white. Had no pigment yet. Learned after encounter, that they always have a litter of four and each of that litter is the same sex. They aren't thick enough here to cause me any issue and my daughter likes occasionally seeing them on the way to school. They can live. |