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Yes, James, I do use
Posted By: Russell
Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 3:03 AM
a wheelgun on occassion. One of the properties I do predator control on is over run with armadilloes. Durn things are very destructive and are non native, so, today I hung my little single-six .32 mag on my belt when I went out to do some coyote callin'. Couldn't find any coyotes that wanted to play, so on thw walk back to the truck I punched the ticket on these two critters. I was shooting 3.5grs Unique under a home cast 115gr'r.
Posted By: KRal
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 4:00 AM
Oooohh......I love to shoots me some 'dillos! Can't stand 'em!!! They keep my yard looking like a grenade range. Congrats! They're great off-season targets.
Posted By: Gregg Richter
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 6:11 AM
Nice work, Sheriff!
Posted By: Whitworth
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 11:44 AM
'Possum on the half shell! Congrats, Russell!
Posted By: Dan B.
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 12:01 PM
They have to be fun to shoot!! Can they see or hear well?? Never messed with those at all.
Posted By: tex44hunter
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 12:20 PM
most of the time you can almost walk right up to them, still fun to shoot.
Posted By: Raptortrapper
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 1:32 PM
They can run and jump like you wouldn't believe!! We use to chase them around during break time at work! Its freakin hilarious watching someone trying to catch one!
Posted By: GlennS
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 1:53 PM
I'm with Kral, I love shooting dillos!! Nice work Sheriff!
Posted By: KRal
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 2:13 PM
Dan, if you stay down wind and move really slow, they're not hard to catch.
Posted By: Russell
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 2:22 PM
They can 'scent' you and hear you as I've had them run before I could get withen my comfort zone with open sites (less than 50yds). But, as Kral stated move slow and easy, into a crosswind or head wind, and you could catch one. I just prefer my single-sixes, .22mag or .32mag.
Posted By: Whitworth
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 3:58 PM
I have exercised domain over these creatures with a .454 in the past......
Posted By: Cookie125
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 4:41 PM
Shoot them all Russell. At my summer job they are everywhere and my boss hates them so I have gotten anywhere from 30-60 in a summer with my S&W 22A and a few with my revolver even. Even took a buddy out to have some fun with his Glock 22 lol. Although the best I've seen is a coworker killed two in a day with a hammer.
Posted By: Bearbait in NM
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 5:19 PM
Russell,
Thanks for sharing. never gave them much thought, having never even seen one, but did a little reading on them just now. What an odd little creature. Kin to the ant eater. Who da thunk.
Craig
Posted By: 500WE
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/20/2013 8:53 PM
Hey Russ,
Load your truck with a mess of live ones, and bring them to CSA. We'll transplant them on Tom's new range, as well as down in the "Holler", so we have something better than the usual swingers in years to come.
Ken
Posted By: kingfisher
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 12:56 AM
Those half-shells never knows what hits 'em when you pop 'em from an elevated stand. Chuutem with a .410 handgun for the ultimate in small-game hunting!
Posted By: Okie Hunter
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 3:37 AM
You're right, these are fun to shoot. I shot one with an arrow while bow hunting once. It tried to run into a hole and bent my arrow into a horseshoe!
Posted By: S.B.
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 3:42 AM
Ever since I learned they carry the leprocy virus, I'm carefol to stay my distance.
Steve
Posted By: TCTex.
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 4:05 AM
LOL.
From my understanding you are right. But I thought it was a type of disease that could cross speaces.
They are fun to shoot. We had to shoot them with bows on the Navy base. They were tearing up the new base ball field, which was right next to the housing complex.
I have to say, my favorite was a left handed shot with my 44 SBH. Love shooting them almost as much as hogs.
Ps. They are a good white meat.
Duane
Posted By: GlennS
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 5:34 AM
A 378 weatherby will leave a vacant shell when shot from the south of a north bound Dillo. If you do sneak up and grab one by the tail, hang on tight, they do some fierce shaking usually
Posted By: wapitirod
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 5:41 AM
we don't have dillo's here so it's possums, porcupines and when I'm on the east side of the state my favorite, badgers.
Posted By: tradmark
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 2:44 PM
378 weatherby and 454's on dillo's. a touch of overkill? haha
Posted By: Russell
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 4:02 PM
Thanks for the idea, Ken. I could probably catch a couple of gunny sacks full between now and the CSA shoot. I'm sure Tom wouldn't mind us dumping them out on his new range.....
Posted By: Whitworth
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 4:21 PM
378 weatherby and 454's on dillo's. a touch of overkill? haha
Mark, there are no degrees of dead -- LOL!
Posted By: tradmark
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 4:29 PM
make no mistake about it, i'm fine and highly approve of overkill. last rifle hunt was a 375 HH on whitetail a few years ago.
Posted By: Whitworth
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 4:53 PM
make no mistake about it, i'm fine and highly approve of overkill. last rifle hunt was a 375 HH on whitetail a few years ago.
I take my .416 Remmie out every couple of years to help me dispatch hogs..... I know where you are coming form! LOL!
Posted By: linebaugh
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 6:36 PM
I'm willing to be it's a short blood trail:)
Posted By: tradmark
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 7:14 PM
when i use my double tap barnes 235 gr loads at 3100 fps it's about 6" cuz the animal rolls a touch when it drops!
Posted By: linebaugh
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 7:17 PM
when i use my double tap barnes 235 gr loads at 3100 fps it's about 6" cuz the animal rolls a touch when it drops!
Lol, that's awesome
Posted By: Cookie125
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 7:48 PM
This talk of overkill makes me wish we would have seen something when my buddy was out with his .500S&W lol
Russ, So its true....I heard you Oklahoma sheriff`s always have a single action in reserve...
Posted By: wapitirod
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/21/2013 9:41 PM
my favorite thing to do when I still lived in the high desert was to go after rock chucks and ground squirrels with my 45-70BFR. I really liked it when they would stand on a big boulder (yeah I know shooting at rocks is bad) anyways I'd shoot at their feet and watch them go airborne. My best went over 40ft straight up and landed about 50ft from where he was standing.
Posted By: Raptortrapper
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/22/2013 12:17 AM
my favorite thing to do when I still lived in the high desert was to go after rock chucks and ground squirrels with my 45-70BFR. I really liked it when they would stand on a big boulder (yeah I know shooting at rocks is bad) anyways I'd shoot at their feet and watch them go airborne. My best went over 40ft straight up and landed about 50ft from where he was standing.
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! New Olympic sport -- Ground Squirrel High Jump!!!
Posted By: wapitirod
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/22/2013 2:00 AM
You bet, the 22's got boring and it brought new life into it
My best though was as a youngster I shot a chipmunk on a stump from about 50yds with Mod 70 in 06. The squirrel just fell over and when I walked up I couldn't see anything wrong until I flipped him over. There was a perfect half circle burnt across his chest. I had hit him broadside while he was standing and the shot was right on the point of the shoulder. It removed both legs and left a cauterized wound from one side to the other. Aside from the woodpecker I shot with my 375H&H (which still causes me to laugh when I think about it) it was the funniest thing I'd seen shooting or hunting.
Posted By: HoggHunter
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/24/2013 4:51 AM
Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.
Posted By: johnwilliams
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/25/2013 6:09 PM
nice shooting!
Posted By: cfish2
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/25/2013 11:27 PM
When I was 12 and in the Everglades I killed an albino that was tearing up our hunting camp airboat landing. Had I realized how rare they are to see, I would have had it mounted. I killed it with a ruger MarkI.
Posted By: cfish2
Re: Yes, James, I do use - 02/25/2013 11:30 PM
Overkill??????? Is there such a thing. Heheje