Fireman1291 wrote:And the porch is spotless after an hour with hydrogen peroxide(great for cleaing blood) and dawn dish soap. That will a stuff bristle brush and garden hose....good as new. I threw the carcass across the street in the empty lot and the vultures aleady came and ate it...there is nothing left. From dillo to dust in under 24hrs.
"Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms."
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Have you tried the CCI sub-sonic segmented HP's?
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those are some badass rounds. ive done expansion tests and they break into three sections and create three wound chanels. i love the huge hollow cavity they have. i found them for about $5.00 at one of the gunshops i go to. what kind of prices are you guys paying?
Because thier digging has now killed 8 plants and they continue to try to burrow under my foundation....my neighbors have it worse ...they are all very happy I take care of the problem. Ive tried everything else and it doesnt work...the only solution is to kill them or let them total my house.....not gonna happen
The DDS is a IR driveway alarm I have in the bushes that senses the armadillos body heat and sounds a wireless chime on my night stand.....much better than waiting around for them and a bargin at $20 a system.
"Armadillos are often used in the study of leprosy, since they, along with mangabey monkeys, rabbits and mice (on their footpads), are among the few known non-human animal species that can contract the disease systemically. They are particularly susceptible due to their unusually low body temperature, which is hospitable to the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae. (The leprosy bacterium is difficult to culture and armadillos have a body temperature of 34 °C, similar to human skin.)"
"Further controversy was generated when it was discovered that wild armadillos in Louisiana were naturally infected with leprosy."
"The mechanism of transmission of leprosy is prolonged close contact and transmission by nasal droplet.[7] The only creature other than humans that is known to contract leprosy is the nine-banded armadillo."
"United States
Each year between 150-200 new cases are diagnosed. In 1999 108 cases were reported. Leprosy is mostly found in Texas and Louisiana possibly as a result of the presence of the nine banded armadillo in these states."
Fireman1291 - I just sent you a PM about your DDS. I too am having a horrible problem with dillos in of all places west Georgia. I bagged 8 last week and my neighbor got 11, all in our own yards.
Just FYI, an LMT MRP 12.5" + M42000 + Hornady TAP requires no second shot . It may seem overkill, but I am out in the country and I have a very large yard.
GBI96 wrote:Fireman1291 - I just sent you a PM about your DDS. I too am having a horrible problem with dillos in of all places west Georgia. I bagged 8 last week and my neighbor got 11, all in our own yards.
Just FYI, an LMT MRP 12.5" + M42000 + Hornady TAP requires no second shot . It may seem overkill, but I am out in the country and I have a very large yard.
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Lucky. I want to blast one with my serbu while talking s--t to it. My neighbors would fucking freak.
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As I may have mentioned in the past, if you shoot the dillo with a centerfire rifle round, just be sure you’re not close enough to get splattered with dillo blood & guts. Nasty stuff.
Adam: Please post the link to the source for the DDS. I need one for some varmints that have been getting into the landscaping near the front of our house lately. Two of the bastards were there when I came around the side with trash cart last night.
700PSS wrote:As I may have mentioned in the past, if you shoot the dillo with a centerfire rifle round, just be sure you’re not close enough to get splattered with dillo blood & guts. Nasty stuff..
10-4 on that. I try to keep them at 25yds or more. I think of it as solving a pesky problem, but training at the same time. These jokers are faster than you may think, especially if they get startled. From a training standpoint, how often do you get to shoot at a live, small and moving target in low light conditions and it still be legal?
He sent me the link to the DDS a short time ago, here it is:
During the cooler months, sometimes I go to a buddy’s property in Talbotton. As you probably know, the place is infested with dillos. I often lose count after exterminating over a dozen or so over the course of a couple of hours late afternoon/evening, between winter/spring. The coyotes take care of the remains by the next day. The best time for them to come out is when you have an overcast day. They seem to think that darkness is coming sooner than normal, so they all get very active.
Funny thing is, sometimes you can stand still and if they don't wind you, they will walk right up to your boot. They seem to have very poor, short sight. I have seen them react to picking up my scent though or even see me and stand on their hind legs, trying to pick up my scent. Yet, startle them and they will bounce as high as 2-3 feet off the ground and run very fast. It's comical to see them running across a hill through the hardwoods, bounding off the ground as they go. Hate dillos though. They've ruined many a deer hunt. I've had deer look toward my stand from 125 yds. away, after hearing a dillo stirring in the dry leaves under my stand.
700PSS - I have been to Talbotton on many occassions. As you can probably guess by my user name, it was for business, not pleasure. I have worked and lived all over Georgia. I like that part of GA, it is plenty rural enough to still be part of "God's Country."
I am new to the dillo game. My neighbor has lived here for 20+ years and has only seen them for the past 4 in our area, so I suspect the actity will be picking up. I would think they like the Talbotton area due to the soft soil down there. I have hard clay and rocks, but they love tearing up my newly sodded Bermuda yard and mulch beds.
The dillos are moving north. I-16 & I-85 seemed to hold them back for a while, but my buddy who owns the Talbotton property lives in S. Fulton on the Chattahoochee River and says they're showing up in some parts of S. Fulton already (1.5 hrs. north of Talbotton). One of the guys we hunt with lives about an hour north of Talbotton and he's got dillos wreaking havoc around his house.
Dillos can be tough to kill though. Close range, well placed shots with expanding, centerfire handgun rounds can be effective, as well as shotguns or expanding, centerfire rifle rounds.
I bagged another one at 3:00 this morning when I took my dog out. It ran, I chased and got it right as it was trying to go in its den. The damn thing had burrowed a den on a hill that butts right up to my established backyard. Due to a stump, I had not seen it before.
Not only are they visiting and tearing up s--t. Now they have moved in. I guess a "there goes the neighborhood" is appropriate!
By the way 3 DDS's are now on order. The war is on!
JohnnyC wrote:You need Paco Kelly's rimfire tools. Roll your own nasty .22 hollowpoints!!!
i will take some pictures and start a new thread hopefully soonish, but i tried this with a #1 phillips head bit and opened up some Winchester bulk pack hollow points. The expansion into milk jugs was a heck of a lot better. accuracy might be worse, but for close range, i don't think it should matter
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Update: killed dillo #18 last night with 147rangers out of USP/Osprey
At a rate of one a day, the vultures have gotta love you. When the word gets around to all the welfare vultures, they'll be sitting on your roof, pooping and waiting for you to feed them every day. Then you'll have a new problem.
I would be very wary about making my own .22 hollowpoints. If you end up with an uneven/unbalanced bullet, you can only imagine how that would "wobble" on the way out of your silencer.
Make double sure that spacer is perfectly square before you use it. Any misalignment and it's baffle strike city for you.
And the vultures sit on the unoccupied spec home 2 story across the street...and poop on its roof.
Good thing I throw the dillo in the empty lot across the street. Of course with the rate they are building im going to have to find another dumping ground.
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...they are all very happy I take care of the problem. Ive tried everything else and it doesnt work...the only solution is to kill them or let them total my house.....not gonna happen
. It may seem overkill, but I am out in the country and I have a very large yard.
Lucky. I want to blast one with my serbu while talking s--t to it. 
