“His wife was in the house,” Rowe said. We always used a shotgun around my house.I never knew they were that tough either. The rifle is suitable for medium game hunting like rabbits, raccoons and even up to small deer. On .177 caliber, its velocity is 1000 fps.
Evidently zombies and those that love them wield political clout in Sacramento. In all seriousness I cannot see a heavy bullet bouncing off of an armadillo. Barring that, a Ford F-150 should work.
They are not aggressive and flee from predators. .22 mag from a revolver is no hotter than .22 lr hypervelocity from a rifle. My impression is that the “armor’ is more like leather than bone.
So all you need to kill one is a 22. Just use extreme caution when handling if you do choose to hunt armadillo. M855 might indeed have a purpose other than being cheap and penetrating certain things better. Mike Antonetti I Support TFP Senior Member. In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin tells us: As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected.
They specialize in rifles, bullets, and BB guns. Makes you kinda wonder why they opted for the armadillo for the state animal over the longhorn. You can consider lead pellets to reduce the sound more effectively. The key things are the PCP is much easier to shoot and the projectiles exit the barrel immediately when pulling the trigger, while the springer is much harder and the CO2 is in the middle. Can’t say I’ve done anything like that, but I have had a bird fly directly into my face shield. I’ve never shot an armadillo; will 230gr traveling as 900ft per second, get the job done? ), This is mean and cruel and awful. 30 carbine went right through him without deadly effect, as did several 9mm rounds. At any rate, the lesson is clear: when shooting the Texas state critter, bring enough gun. Yes, this rifle is made for big game, you can take down a deer quietly . My father killed one with a 22lr rifle and that was his last round in the rifle, so to kill the second one (two had gotten into the garage) he grabbed a 300 Savage rifle. http://www.livescience.com/51665-florida-leprosy-cases-armadillos.html. Of course, I think armadillos should be left alone unless they’re posing a threat, and it’s not clear that this one was. Based on my time on I-10 I was going to suggest an F-350 as the weapon of choice for ‘dillo. I’m not touching one of those things with a ten foot pole. I though in Tx only were allowed to use an auto.