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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:31:45 PM EDT
Well this started last Sunday, it's been really dry here and when I water the lawn, it attracts the Panzer Possums and they root it up like wild hogs and that's no b/s. You'd think you get one in the very place that's all rooted up and that's the end of it. Wrong, their are legions of them, for everyone that falls, another fills it's place.
Sunday 4-3, war is declared. Weapon of choice 10/22 Pocket Rifle, target location, the front yard. Distance 40 feet. Single shot.  Tuesday 4-4, around midnight. Back yard. Weapon, Glock 19, Win 127gr XST, distance 50 feet.  Friday 4-6, 2:39 AM. Back yard. Weapon, Glock 19, Win 127gr XST, distance 60 feet.   Saturday after midnight, south yard area. Weapon 77/22 Vidar, Burris scope, distance 120 feet. Rear hip shot that traversed thru the carcase towards the front. No exit .  This is an odd behavior, another dillo came along and either tried to rouse the dead one (from the previous photo) or who knows, seen the behavior before. The hole that the dillo dug around the dead one is deep enough to bury it in and the size that a german shepard or similar dog would dig to lay in. It's a big hole! That still living dillo left it's share of pineapple size holes around the yard afterwards, I'll be patrolling for it tonite.  The weeks carnage.  My boys getting it cleaned up. Fear not tree huggers and pity partiers, they don't go to waste.  Parting Shot  |
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:35:07 PM EDT
[#1]
So, how do they taste?
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:35:36 PM EDT
[#2]
Uhh, thems aint possums
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:36:00 PM EDT
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we've started getting dillos around here. i had to dispatch a rabid armidillo not too long ago at a distance of 5 or 6 feet. 4 CCI stingers did the trick - and splattered me with dillo blood
 oh, and in before a hippy troll calls you a "poaching sack of shit"... |
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:37:28 PM EDT
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Duh!!!!! They are 9 banded armadillos. We refer to them a Panzer Possums due to the hard shell. Like little possum sized tanks. Geesh. 
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:38:05 PM EDT
[#5]
Thats what you call a "lawn" in Florida? How sad. |
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:38:37 PM EDT
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Wish I had enough room to get away with shooting them. I've been testing some of those powderless .22s because I won't get away with anything else.
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:39:12 PM EDT
[#7]
I have a permit from FWC to hunt them year around 24 hours a day using artificial light. |
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:39:15 PM EDT
[#8]
Possum on the half shell. |
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:41:46 PM EDT
[#9]
Sorry, I don't hang with your 'We refer to them a Panzer Possums' crowd to know your local slang. |
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:43:45 PM EDT
[#10]
My, you must be quite the connoisseur! |
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Posted: 4/9/2006 4:47:22 PM EDT
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this has been quite the critter killing weekend on arfcom. you and your dillos, someone else killed a coon with a 45, and i just read about a woodchuck getting it too. i'm jealous
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Posted: 4/9/2006 5:42:40 PM EDT
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Just why did you shoot them, I thought that dillos are protected.
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Posted: 4/9/2006 5:53:06 PM EDT
[#13]
'Dillo = 'Possum On The Half-Shell. 
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Posted: 4/9/2006 5:54:58 PM EDT
[#14]
I can't wait to get to my new house where I have room to shoot stuff like that. Right now I'm in the middle of a neighborhood and can't shoot crap. Getting a can for the 10/22 could be tons of good times for all!!
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Posted: 4/9/2006 6:00:37 PM EDT
[#15]
WTF "protected"  Hell, they're vermin.Leprosy is a bad thing.
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Posted: 4/9/2006 6:02:17 PM EDT
[#16]
That must have been armor piercing bullets
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Posted: 4/9/2006 6:03:37 PM EDT
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A lot of humans may be too... |
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Posted: 4/9/2006 6:13:10 PM EDT
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Should dissect the one that it didn't exit from and recover the bullet
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Posted: 4/9/2006 6:15:11 PM EDT
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OK I just have to ask what kind of 22LR was it? not rifle but brand/bullet. I have seen some 22LR have trouble with coon but an up-armored opossum is different.
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Posted: 4/9/2006 6:16:33 PM EDT
[#20]
Ah man those things are cute!! Poor little guy's...
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Posted: 4/9/2006 6:21:45 PM EDT
[#21]
Kick ass, take names! Hell, I was happy enough whacking Granpappy today. Great name BTW, panzer possums, love it.
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Posted: 4/10/2006 9:05:53 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/10/2006 9:08:47 AM EDT
[#23]
Panzer Possums - that's new nomenclature to me. I find it funny as hell.
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Posted: 4/10/2006 9:13:32 AM EDT
[#24]
LOL Sweet!
I'm learning new lingo too... Up armored possums/Panzer Possums, awesome. |
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Posted: 4/10/2006 9:24:40 AM EDT
[#25]
we call dillos 'Texas speed bumps' or 'Texas mile markers'
What did you shoot them with? |
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Posted: 4/10/2006 9:41:15 AM EDT
[#26]
Buzzards gotta eat, same as the worm.
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Posted: 4/10/2006 10:06:51 AM EDT
[#27]
That's exactly what I think every time I shoot one  , except without the superfluous apostrophe.
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Posted: 4/10/2006 10:13:06 AM EDT
[#28]
YA BABY! That's what I'm talkin' about!
 Oh, and +1 on the new lingo. "Up armored possum" 
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Posted: 4/10/2006 10:15:58 AM EDT
[#29]
Good carnage!
Someone needs to send this to PETA!
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Posted: 4/10/2006 11:14:27 AM EDT
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The first one was shot with 40gr RN CCI Blazer, cheap ammo that stays subsonic. It had a substancial exit wound taking some entrails with it. The last one was shot with Winchester SuperX 36gr HP, it remains sub-sonic in the ported Vidar and stayed in the dillo. |
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Posted: 4/10/2006 11:22:07 AM EDT
[#31]
LMAO, never heard of them reffered to as "Panzer Possums!"
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Posted: 4/10/2006 12:37:27 PM EDT
[#32]
You'd think that after a while word would get around in the 'dillo community that yours is NOT the yard to hang out in.
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Posted: 4/10/2006 1:12:35 PM EDT
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I have a few pics from a Dilla slaying weekend we did a few years ago, got a really cool pic of my posing on top of a hill where I sniped one at 400+ yds with the 22-250.
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Posted: 4/10/2006 6:08:28 PM EDT
[#34]
Eww...
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Posted: 4/10/2006 6:12:36 PM EDT
[#35]
When I read 'dillo
I see 'dildo, without fail, every time. When I saw "splattered with dildo blood" I was confused. |
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