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Post by reflex264 on Jan 29, 2024 19:35:02 GMT -5
The armadillos around here carry several diseases. They advise people not to eat them. Feral hogs carry several diseases too,…doesn’t stop us from eating them. Trapr We have been advised not to even touch them in this area. Use a shovel to remove the carcass. Plague and leprosy have been found in them. The game wardens want us to kill every one of them. Hard to do. |
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Post by bigbrowndog on Jan 29, 2024 19:41:23 GMT -5
Look up diseases carried by Feral Hogs, it will make you think twice about handling them, much less gutting one. Sometimes I wonder if all this disease warnings isn’t a method of getting us to not kill, eat meat, or whatever other liberal agenda. Have handled and eaten armadillo and typing with my three hands and reading using my back eyeballs is much easier than most folks
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Post by hunter01 on Jan 29, 2024 20:41:58 GMT -5
The fact is, we are exposed to things that can kill us every single day but since we cant see it, we dont think about it. You are likely carrying staph in your very own nose right now that has the potential to kill you. I wallow in cow $hit all the time with cuts and abrasions all over me. Plenty of bacteria that could cause issue. Is it smart? Probably not. Do i fear the possibilities? I dont give it a second thought.....or a first for that matter. My wife is an RN and was telling me of a lady she cared for on a contract assignment. She had a flesh eating bacteria. In a matter of two days, she had no arms or legs. Had no idea of where she may have gotten it. My wife loves to care for others and it broke her heart not being able to do anything. The only way to treat it is to amputate limbs hoping to get in front of it. These bacteria arent magic and they arent uncommon, they are just looking for the right circumstances.
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Post by reflex264 on Jan 29, 2024 20:47:30 GMT -5
Look up diseases carried by Feral Hogs, it will make you think twice about handling them, much less gutting one. Sometimes I wonder if all this disease warnings isn’t a method of getting us to not kill, eat meat, or whatever other liberal agenda. Have handled and eaten armadillo and typing with my three hands and reading using my back eyeballs is much easier than most folks Trapr Very possible. They started testing the hogs brought in to Wilderness, Caryonah, Clark Range and the smaller opperations. Brucellosis is the main one. The protocol used to be kill them and burn them. Of course trichinosis has been around forever in feral hogs. |
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Post by bradshaw on Jan 29, 2024 20:47:35 GMT -5
Look up diseases carried by Feral Hogs, it will make you think twice about handling them, much less gutting one. Sometimes I wonder if all this disease warnings isn’t a method of getting us to not kill, eat meat, or whatever other liberal agenda. Have handled and eaten armadillo and typing with my three hands and reading using my back eyeballs is much easier than most folks Trapr ***** Trapr.... visitors to my watermelon patch in Gulf Coast, Louisiana include the armadillo, coyote, and opossum. Armadillo dug grubs without breaking the delicate melon stems, some stretching 25 feet. Possum ate bugs, possibly a rodent or two, without biting or crushing a melon stem. A coyote bit off a watermelon stem to drag the nearly ripe fruit out of the patch, where it consumed about a third of a 20 pound melon; perhaps it had a friend. In dragging the watermelon out of the patch, the coyote avoided harm to neighboring stems and melons, which immediately gained my respect. Never shot a one of these visitors. Neighboring pigs which vacuumed our pecans nibbled their way into ballistic research. Likewise, rather than kill them, I did my best to move water moccasins and the occasional copperhead away from the house, shop, and studio. (Seems the pit vipers wanted nothing to do with the beautiful Speckled King Snake, which is immune to their venom. When a Speckled King Snake was around, I wasn’t going to see a water moccasin.) Generally don’t need an animal to find whether I can shoot. I’m a reluctant killer of whitetails, elk, and moose, yet prize their lean muscle above other red meat. Compared to the exertion a mountain whitetail commands, hunting mule deer is a vacation. Fun to hunt not eat, I give muley meat to folks who prefer venison mixed with beef fat. I count deer farms and the obsession with antlers as driving my apprehension CWD, Chronic Wasting Disease, hardly the creation of liberals. Nor was CWD's cousin, Mad Cow Disease, a creation of liberals. Contagions free of political label. David Bradshaw |
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Post by bigbrowndog on Jan 29, 2024 21:04:50 GMT -5
David there is a lot to be said for the various animal borne diseases that we have today, and man’s interference with nature and altering things in general . My use of the the term liberal was not meant as a political statement but more as a mindset of anti meat folks and them trying to force their agenda. I agree that like you I am quite reluctant to shoot snakes of any kind or vermin just because they are vermin and snakes. I enjoy seeing them around when I’m outdoors, raccoons playing or simply being raccoons are fun to watch. Skunks and opossum do more good than most people give them credit for, we currently enjoy Fox in our yard for the rodent work they do. I am more likely to trap and relocate a skunk, an opossum or armadillo than I am to kill it.
If an offense was taken by my use of the term liberal, please accept my apologies.
BTW, watching a coyote tear into a watermelon and bury its face in the fruity meat of the melon is quite hilarious when it lifts its head and is covered in red juice and melon meat.
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Post by messybear on Jan 30, 2024 11:26:37 GMT -5
Interesting thread!
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Post by reflex264 on Jan 30, 2024 17:25:13 GMT -5
Now my curiosity is up. What do armidillos taste like? With the warnings on them around here I would probably pass but if I was in Texas how would you gentlemen prepare them and serve them? I can see tamales or maybe in chili.
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Post by garry on Feb 2, 2024 9:25:55 GMT -5
Ever since armadillos have been migrating north I have been looking for the opportunity. Yesterday I shot my first armadillo with my 617. Warm February day are said to bring them out.
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Post by Odin on Feb 2, 2024 9:38:12 GMT -5
Ever since armadillos have been migrating north I have been looking for the opportunity. Yesterday I shot my first armadillo with my 617. Warm February day are said to bring them out. How did the lil' 22 perform? What range, presentation, etc? I often carry the same and although I've only seen a couple armadillo here, I've wondered how the little rimfire would fare. |
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Post by garry on Feb 2, 2024 9:58:53 GMT -5
Ever since armadillos have been migrating north I have been looking for the opportunity. Yesterday I shot my first armadillo with my 617. Warm February day are said to bring them out. How did the lil' 22 perform? What range, presentation, etc? I often carry the same and although I've only seen a couple armadillo here, I've wondered how the little rimfire would fare. I shot it at about 15 yards, I waited until it was facing me and shot it in the top of the head with a 40gr. HP (Waltz die). It did a lot of flopping. |
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Post by Odin on Feb 2, 2024 10:33:45 GMT -5
How did the lil' 22 perform? What range, presentation, etc? I often carry the same and although I've only seen a couple armadillo here, I've wondered how the little rimfire would fare. I shot it at about 15 yards, I waited until it was facing me and shot it in the top of the head with a 40gr. HP (Waltz die). It did a lot of flopping. Thanks for the specifics. I lived on a river as a teenager. My mother hated the ducks that would congregate on her dock, for the mess they would leave behind. I took to popping one in the rear with a shot from an old break-action pellet rifle every few weeks to keep them cleared off. Early summer came and I grew tired of the silliness, but went down to clear them off again anyway. Whacked one in the butt and they all flew off but one. The little junker rifle wasn't exactly true to the sights, so I thought about where I aimed at the first duck and where the pellet struck. Held off about that much on the straggler and let fly. About 15 yards, maybe a bit more. Thwack! Right in the noggin. It did a lot of flopping too... And we didn't see another duck on the dock for the rest of the summer. |
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Post by lassiter on Feb 2, 2024 11:10:05 GMT -5
My brother threw his best hunting knife at an armadillo years ago. He made a good throw and the knife buried up to the hilt.
At which point the little varmint took off running through brush too thick for my brother to catch up. He never saw the armadillo
or his favorite knife again...
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Post by bula on Feb 2, 2024 11:17:36 GMT -5
With all the diseases us humans carry, it's a wonder any beast would want to eat us.
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