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PenMan1

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Armidillos have found Texas and Mississippi climates TOO HARSH and decided to move East. After spending 4.3 gozilliand dollars on sod, irrigation, fertilizer and all the trimmings, I waged WAR ON these little armor plated
turf busters.

After applying a "lead poultice" to a few hundred of these little lawn wreckers, PenWife1 decided that Capitol punishment was TOO severe for lawn wreckage (actually, she hates them as much as me, I think the smell of the ones I shot and couldn't find influenced her decision), so I was relegated to trapping these critters.

Well, I decided to spray paint a red "X" on my traps to insure I wasnt trapping the same varmint, over and over!

After seeing my red "X", my neighbor, never one to be "outdone" started painting his traps with NASCAR colors and numbers. So far, we have a 8, 3, 88, 24, 17 and 00.

MY QUESTION IS: Does anybody know the banking angles for an OFFICIAL NASCAR armadillo track? AND would the best length be 1 mile, 1.5 miles OR IF we decide to make it 2 miles, do our Armidillos need "restricter plating" or is THAT a thing of the past?
 
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I hope you're right about the climate being too harsh here in Texas for the armadillos. I would love to see the ones wrecking havoc on my yard pack up & head to Georgia. Not necessarily your yard but somewhere in Georgia! :)
 
You and your neighbor have WAY TOO MUCH free time!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

I recently saw a piece on Daytona and they mentioned the banking was 31 degrees.
 
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IF you decide to go with restrictor plating, it makes it easier to take out a bunch of them with one shot...just shoot the lead 'dillo and the rest pile into the scatter... easy to find and clean up!
 
How about a 1/4 mile speed track crossing I-75 You turn em loose and if they make it across I-75 without being road kill they get to try again. Let the too-rists flatten them for you. All though you should be selling advertising space on their sides. "Budweiser" "beer of road kill fans everywhere!" etc
 
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Brentda1 said:
Oh please post pics!
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I'll try to get photos. If you notice the time of the original post, dillo NASCAR is a nocturnal sport. When the numbered dillos appear, flash photography is almost as annoying as the sound of a 22 short at that time of the morning. At least that's what spouses and neighbors think.
 
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Who needs picts here? This is like reading a book, let your imagination run wild. That has to be better than any picts could possibly be! Thanks Andy, for a great thread.

I am still standing Dillo guard. They have been spotted less than 100 miles south of here.

Charles
 
Andy, I have their distant cousins in the woods next to our property. They prefer the grubs in my yard. Wildlife expert told me I can spray the yard with 50/50 ammonia, or treat the yard to kill the grubs. Says, there is no bait you can put in a trap,( because their food is in the ground) but build a system of straw bails, or a fence to funnel them into a trap. Tried 50 gallons of ammonia, and treated the yard with Triazicide twice. I thought I had finally won the battle, when I had not seen holes in the yard for 3 weeks. Last week, I'm out here working on the El Camino, when out of the woods come 4 little Armies:rolleyes: Found out the Taurus 38 Special is not a target pistol.:frown:

Now, I DO have pictures of these guys on Susannes phone, which she has just tried to email to me, but they haven't come thru yet. I'll post them here when I receive them.
 
Andy,

For goodness sake, treat these little creatures as a God Send. Set up a little stand on I-75, dress the little boogers out, bar-b-que em and sell them to the yankees as
Possum on a half shell !!!

Ben
 
BKelley said:
Andy,

For goodness sake, treat these little creatures as a God Send. Set up a little stand on I-75, dress the little boogers out, bar-b-que em and sell them to the yankees as
Possum on a half shell !!!

Ben
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You might be surprised to learn that some of us "yankees" know what 'possum is. We just think woodchuck is better eating.....
 
They have 4 offspring per litter. Kick em like a football and they roll up on landing. Then just pick them up and toss in large lidded container and Take them to the north 100 miles and share.
 
Dude, I hate raccoons that bad too. Cute critters but they eat my chickens. So I started live trapping them and dropping them off at a coworkers place several miles away. He lives by a lake, better he should have them than me. He never mentioned an influx of raccoons. Yet.
So then an occasional skunk ended up in my live traps......:bulgy-eyes:
Been dropping them at a local church parking lot. They head straight towards the woods but my wife swears that nobody goes to that church anymore. :biggrin: I say it's bad preaching, she says it's the skunks. I stay in trouble with her over that.
 
KenV said:
Must be some way to use dillo hide in a pen??? Inquiring minds who do not have those critters want to know.
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Ken:
About a year ago (the last time that dillo infestation got this bad), I offered $100 bounty for "finished and turntable dillo blank". The only two requirements were NO "bassomatic blanks" (dillo in the blender and the cast guts) and process had to be witnessed and photographed.

There were no takers. So now, we are gonna race 'em and see if we can make some sponsorship money:) We are still trying to figure out who would be "prime dillo sponsors" so we know who's logo to paint on the "race vehicle"

Tongue firmly in cheek.
 
A modern armadillo would be tough to get a blank out of! There shell is more like leather than bone....however a gylptodon would be perfect! They had a shell made of bone.
 

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Be careful there. I don't know what the laws are in Georgia, but in Minnesota it's illegal to transport and release a live-trapped animal. It doesn't do any good anyways, it just rearranges the territories, the ones near you will move in to take it's place.
 
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