Armadillo Gun

[AxeHandle]

Grub worm eating beasties! Dang yard is full of holes. The positive is that yellow jacket nest that they dug up and ransacked. Locals say that the things tear up live traps pretty quick. Dropped off a 10 inch bull 22 LR TC barrel to be threaded for a can. Living out in the county we can shoot in the yard if are safe and don't disturb the neighbors. May have the underside of the barrel D&T for a rail for a laser.

[bulasteve]

Good luck ! Please keep them varmints down there. Not fond of having varmints around in the not edible category. At least, they'd be in that category for me !

[sheriff]

They are pests! I prefer my little single-six .32mag. I can reload .32's cheaper than I can buy .22's.

[magnumwheelman]

my skunk / truck gun is a 10" 44 Hotshot barrelled Contender, that I chambered for 444 Marlin... I have shot loads in 444 shells that equal 3" .410 ( the straight rifled choke tube keeps the shot from donutting ) also have some ball loads ( buck shot ) & a light "tender safe" 444 bullet load... I have a combo red dot / laser sight on it, & a mount for a tactical flashlight... seems like the perfect gun... I don't have need for the can, since my closest neighbor is over a mile away, & they know if I'm shooting that time of day, thewre is some varmint that needs to die

now just need to have it duracoated to turn it into a low maintenance truck gun

[magnumwheelman]

I'm betting ( I think I've seen ) dillo chili recipes

[bradshaw]

Armadillos live a rough life, but not on my account. We have 'em in fairly good supply in the Gulf South. Do a bit of organic gardening now and then, with periodic visits from Armadillos. One armadillo had a den near a couple of garden patches, where it dined on insect pests. Several times found its grubbing track around the watermelons----without a single disturbance to the delicate vines or fruit. Perhaps not an accident, as I has seen this performance repeated.

In a vain attempt to gather a water moccasin into a 5-gallon pail, keeping well out of arm's length, thank you----and following numerous warning strikes in my direction, the moccasin shot down the armadillo's hole under a berry patch. Whatever conversation transpired between armadillo and water moccasin, reckon it was amiable; probably ignored each other. I leave armadillos alone. They have a hard enough time navigating blind drivers on the road, along with canine predators----dogs----off the road. If an armadillo tears up a ground hornet nest, so much the better.

Found one morning a watermelon dragged out of the patch. Inspection showed a coyote had chewed off the stem and dragged the 20-pound melon away from the patch into the grass. I wasn't so upset when I saw that the coyote had put the melon to use, consuming a third.
David Bradshaw

[AxeHandle]

Can't argue that they are marvelous examples of God's work... I've only seen one in the yard. There are just so many holes!

[buckheart]

I've heard them referred to as Texas speed bumps.

[eskimo36]

They cause horrible damage to river bottom pastures. Left unchecked they multiply fairly quick and leave soccer ball size holes all over the place. I have shot hundreds over the years. I prefer a big hole through them so they don't make it back to their hole that is always close.

[perterra]

Feb 22, 2016 11:16:05 GMT -5 bradshaw said:

Armadillos live a rough life, but not on my account. We have 'em in fairly good supply in the Gulf South. Do a bit of organic gardening now and then, with periodic visits from Armadillos. One armadillo had a den near a couple of garden patches, where it dined on insect pests. Several times found its grubbing track around the watermelons----without a single disturbance to the delicate vines or fruit. Perhaps not an accident, as I has seen this performance repeated.

In a vain attempt to gather a water moccasin into a 5-gallon pail, keeping well out of arm's length, thank you----and following numerous warning strikes in my direction, the moccasin shot down the armadillo's hole under a berry patch. Whatever conversation transpired between armadillo and water moccasin, reckon it was amiable; probably ignored each other. I leave armadillos alone. They have a hard enough time navigating blind drivers on the road, along with canine predators----dogs----off the road. If an armadillo tears up a ground hornet nest, so much the better.

Found one morning a watermelon dragged out of the patch. Inspection showed a coyote had chewed off the stem and dragged the 20-pound melon away from the patch into the grass. I wasn't so upset when I saw that the coyote had put the melon to use, consuming a third.
David Bradshaw

They dont bother me much either, we got them every where down here. I see them plow up a little soil, but never very deep. Pigs will do a lot more damage

[Wasp]

I prefer a .410 for Armadillo, but I know that's not what you are asking but that's my favorite.

P.S.

My mom was picking blackberries and ended up with a plate and two pins in her ankle from an Armadillo hole, that was 33 years ago. I don't mind removing them from the yard, but they can walk free in the woods.

[bagdadjoe]

Yum...possum on the half-shell!!

[CraigC]

I put this together several years ago to handle the raiders pilfering my chicken house in the middle of the night. It has accounted for hundreds of possums, coons, armadillos, foxes, skunks and feral cats. Six skunks and two possums in just the last month. I'm presently working on a pistol counterpart. A new 22/45 with threaded muzzle for an incoming suppressor, rails top & bottom, with a Streamlight TLR-1 and mini red dot.

[nolongcolt]

Not much for geegaw and foofaraw on your guns are ya Craig? LOL!

[CraigC]

Nothing there that doesn't serve a purpose. You ever try holding onto a regular flashlight and a rifle, while trying to find a moving target in a 4x scope? I have and that's why I built that thing.