One question?

have you tried and used CCI velocitors?

 

I have not. I've looked for them but they have not been available lately. I've been recommended using those.

Well I see they are now available on cci. I'll see if i can grab a box locally.

 

I just called the LGS, they have some and they are across the street from my work. I'll pick up a couple boxes on the way home in a few hours.

 

Hey Kfxguy- Quick question- What kind of problems do armadillos create/damage do they do?

We have a major raccoon problem where I live. They're destructive, noisy, and tenacious. They have torn holes in my deck, my house and my neighbors house. Once they get into a human built structure, it is nearly impossible to get them to stop chewing and scratching their way back in without dispatching them. They are territorial in their nesting sites and are relentless. I have several hollow trees in a forest on my property where they nest, but there are so many that they will often fight over den sites in the wee hours of the morning. They've also done the same tearing holes in and under my deck which is very large, and at one point had torn out the vent slats and heavy steel mesh material used to keep them out of my attic. It took two years and an unbelievable amount of time and effort to first eradicate the ones that had nested there, and then stop others from following their example.
I don't know anything about armadillos, other than I always thought they were very interesting animals, so I am literally just asking to understand.
I did not know they carried mycobacterium leprae!

DrGunner

 

Hey Kfxguy- Quick question- What kind of problems do armadillos create/damage do they do?

We have a major raccoon problem where I live. They're destructive, noisy, and tenacious. They have torn holes in my deck, my house and my neighbors house. Once they get into a human built structure, it is nearly impossible to get them to stop chewing and scratching their way back in without dispatching them. They are territorial in their nesting sites and are relentless. I have several hollow trees in a forest on my property where they nest, but there are so many that they will often fight over den sites in the wee hours of the morning. They've also done the same tearing holes in and under my deck which is very large, and at one point had torn out the vent slats and heavy steel mesh material used to keep them out of my attic. It took two years and an unbelievable amount of time and effort to first eradicate the ones that had nested there, and then stop others from following their example.
I don't know anything about armadillos, other than I always thought they were very interesting animals, so I am literally just asking to understand.
I did not know they carried mycobacterium leprae!

DrGunner

Man your problem sounds more serious than mine. What they do is dig holes, everywhere. Especially around the foundation of my house. All over my yard. I'll try to take some pics when i get home, but its not near as bad as it was before I installed a bunch of wireless video cameras that send a notification to my phone (and my wifes....because I usually wont wake up...she usually has to wake me, like last night) and started dispatching them.
We have racoons too, picked up two on the camera last night, but i had to work today and didn't feel like getting up again to deal with them. I usually off them too because we have a 7lb lap dog that would not stand a chance against a racoon. If I didn't have a dog, and all they did was get in the trash, i wouldnt care. They actually dont make a mess like the dogs that used to get in my trash did. No, i didn't shoot them lol. they both got ran over by a car. Just like one of my dogs and a cat. People suck.
On a side note, the dillos used to just dig in the ditch and sometimes in the back yard by the ditch. I didn't care, so I did not start shooting till they really got bad. I tried a trap but I'd end up with everything else in the trap besides an armadillo. its a sucky problem to have

 

DG

Armadillos are disease carrying/spreading destructive little scavenging critters that eats anything it finds dead and loves grub worms so they dig little holes everywhere and they burrow new holes to sleep in every day.
When they abandon their little den it becomes a possible leg breaker for cows.

They are night critters and yes carry leprosy.

they are a scourge in texas. They are worse for spreading rabies than skunks.

James

 

Armadillos are a plague here too. Smashed all over the roads. They dig big holes all over where I mow. Yet another example of an invasive species that doesn't belong here.

 

And come to think of it, I did not have any armadillos in my yard until those dogs got ran over. I'm not sure whats worse problem to have. Wake up and walk outside to go to work and see trash strung out all over.....even down the road to my neighbors yards (yea, i'd have to go clean it all up even though it wasn't my dog) or holes all over my yard. I finally told my neighbor, since it was his dog, they i wasn't picking up the trash his dog would scatter. So he started picking it up. It was a big Lab, he bought a shock collar in case he got out the yard (he'd dig his way out) and eventually the shock collar turned on full blast didnt phase him. He's get out, get shocked till the battery went dead. I hate that he got ran over, but i sure like not having to pick up trash before going to work.

 

It’s hard to get rid of all the grubs.

 

Not if you have a manageable size yard. I bought some kind of a material disbursed by my spreader, applied it, and the next day found my entire yard littered in dead grubs. You couldn't measure 1 foot between any two dead bodies. No more little holes from the coon diggings~!!!!

 

I've had good results with Aguilla Super Extra solids. I have killed more than 30 with them. When I have a runoff, it's because I messed up the shot. I bought a case, so I have plenty. Like anything you shoot that's alive, you have to hit vitals. If you really want to have fun, shoot them on a high humidity night with a suppressed .223. The impact sound is awesome and unlike anything else.

 

Another pretty effective round is the CCI MM Segmented HP, 1245 fps as I recall, breaks into 3 parts on entry, a bit noisy if that's a problem.

 

I just bought 600rds of that and I'll be trying it as soon as my current magazines are empty. I've been using the 36gr CPHPs for a couple of years.
Seems that anything you can use say less than 50cal or maybe 44mag is a 50/50 one shot kill on armadillos at night.
Back in 2016 I was seeing them in broad daylight 2 or 3 a day and using 7.62x39 in AK 47 under folder.
Year after that I was using a 11.5" AR15 and 5.56/.223
The 7.62x39 likely racked up the most one shot kills. The 5.56/.223 basically zips right through them and they keep on running. So two more follow up shots to perforate ends up being more $$ than one or two 7.62x39.
Guaranteed the 22LR has the magic and I've used 22LR effectively on wild piglets, bobcats, racoons, skunks, and squirrels. I was a fan of the 40gr lead solids a few years ago on squirrel. But the lighter 36gr CPHPs are faster and extend my range out in the open.

 

Please excuse me while I take y'all off to the side for a minute ........First of all, I hate armadillos as much as anybody. They dig den holes in my food plots that will swallow a front tire on my tractor. Now.........armadillos 'can" carry leprosy. By no means is every armadillo out there carrying the dreaded disease and it's very possible that none in any given area are.

And now for the "Rest of the Story"...... In 1977 while working in the Texas Hill Country we'd see dozens of armadillos every day so we decided we had to kill some. We put word out that we'd be having a cookout on Saturday. On the way in from work Friday evening I killed 17 with my friends Ruger 22 revolver. They're almost blind and easy to sneak up on if you're really quiet and can circle to stay behind them. Their hearing is excellent and they can swivel their ears like a deer to locate the source of a sound. Anyway, we skinned the 17 out, trimmed them up real good and put them on a big grill the next day along with a few dozen baking taters and had a keg of beer that had been on ice overnight. Armadillos have white meat and dark meat like that other often referenced animal of the feathery species. At the end of Saturday there was a big pile of bones and not a scrap of meat left. Every piece of those 17 armadillos had been eaten.

Fast forward to about 3 weeks later and Paul Harvey was on the radio at noon and his topic that day was the lepers who were banished to an island in biblical days. He went through how the disease was untreatable and it was best to banish those afflicted with it. At the end of his "Rest of the Story" he said that even to this day there are only 2 species on earth that 'can' carry leprosy......... humans and armadillos. I immediately started itching from head to toe and yelling "I don'e got the leprosy!" "Gonna have to be put on that island!"........ and after a couple of weeks I completely forgot about it. But I never have eaten another armadillo out of the many dozens that I've killed since that day in 1977.

Not sure what's going on but I'm suddenly feeling a little itchy.......

 

Please excuse me while I take y'all off to the side for a minute ........First of all, I hate armadillos as much as anybody. They dig den holes in my food plots that will swallow a front tire on my tractor. Now.........armadillos 'can" carry leprosy. By no means is every armadillo out there carrying the dreaded disease and it's very possible that none in any given area are.

And now for the "Rest of the Story"...... In 1977 while working in the Texas Hill Country we'd see dozens of armadillos every day so we decided we had to kill some. We put word out that we'd be having a cookout on Saturday. On the way in from work Friday evening I killed 17 with my friends Ruger 22 revolver. They're almost blind and easy to sneak up on if you're really quiet and can circle to stay behind them. Their hearing is excellent and they can swivel their ears like a deer to locate the source of a sound. Anyway, we skinned the 17 out, trimmed them up real good and put them on a big grill the next day along with a few dozen baking taters and had a keg of beer that had been on ice overnight. Armadillos have white meat and dark meat like that other often referenced animal of the feathery species. At the end of Saturday there was a big pile of bones and not a scrap of meat left. Every piece of those 17 armadillos had been eaten.

Fast forward to about 3 weeks later and Paul Harvey was on the radio at noon and his topic that day was the lepers who were banished to an island in biblical days. He went through how the disease was untreatable and it was best to banish those afflicted with it. At the end of his "Rest of the Story" he said that even to this day there are only 2 species on earth that 'can' carry leprosy......... humans and armadillos. I immediately started itching from head to toe and yelling "I don'e got the leprosy!" "Gonna have to be put on that island!"........ and after a couple of weeks I completely forgot about it. But I never have eaten another armadillo out of the many dozens that I've killed since that day in 1977.

Not sure what's going on but I'm suddenly feeling a little itchy.......

WileyG, ya made me itch reading that story. Thanks for sharing.

 

😱

makes want to go skewer some field mice and roast them up over a campfire.

NOT

 

I used to fight them all the time. They can totally destroy a nicely landscaped yard very quickly.

 

Very quickly. I remember my wife actually got so upset she cried a little because at one point they tore my yard up badly. I think at that point is when I declared war on them and built a purpose built short range, night friendly rifle for them.

 

Well, they lied. Figures. When I asked if they had cci velocitors and she answered me that fast and said they were 9.99….I kinda knew. I knew if they are 10.99 on cci website, they werent gonna be cheaper here for sure. Guess I’ll have to search some more.

 

To the best of my memory, there are only three carriers of rabies “ a carrier is one that carrys but don’t necessarily becomes sick with”.
Skunks
Opossums
Armadillos.

compost piles if it has uneaten vegetables in it will draw them in.

 

It is actually very rare for an opossum to be infected with the rabies virus, whether full blown or just as a carrier, because their body temperature is typically too low for the virus to survive in them.

 

We have problems with armadillos aka " 'possum on the half shell" here as well, I've killed them with everything from .22 - .357. They will destroy a yard in no time.

 

I just ran the fpe calculator on the supermaximum and in my chrono tests, I’m getting 201fpe. Now I’ve not tested the velocitor but the are rated at 183fpe. Not sure they would be beneficial unless I was shooting further. I’m shooting these things around 20-35 feet. I’ve got a ton of energy at that short distance. Now the raccoons I’m shooting at 50-75ft. I try to get as close on any of them as I can. The raccoons are smart. They don’t run if I see them and they see me and I don’t have a gun. When I have a gun, they are running. So I actually have to catch them by surprise. The Armadillos, they get spooked real easy. I’ve missed my chance at a shot numerous times because they detected me somehow.

 

Nothing serious like I’ve seen if I don’t shoot them, but here. There will be holes all over. It rained badly yesterday and it helps to hide them.

 

Hope you fellas don't kill em all. They are only one of two animals I can outrun. The other is a porcupine. ( a slow 0ne).

 

They flat make it rough on me mowing, my spine is ate up with arthritis and the holes everywhere are not exactly conducive to a smooth ride.

 

I use cayenne pepper to deter armadillos around the house. We have a manufactured home and I do not want them getting in under the house. I found I could buy the cayenne pepper in bulk fairly inexpensively. I put it next to the skirting and I think it works ok. In a lot of places shooting a .22 rifle is illegal and I wonder how much of a pellet rifle would be needed to kill one.

 

A pellet rifle would work if you hit it in the head. If you aren’t putting out at least 50fpe I don’t think I’d shoot it in the shell. Admittedly, the shell isn’t that hard, but you would get much penetration after that. I’ve got one in the ditch I shot last night. I haven’t got rid of him yet, I might run out there and see how my .177 gas springer does to it shell.

 

I killed two with a Beeman R1 .177, both were head shots though. If you get a head shot it doesn't take much to kill one.

 

I shot one in the shell last night, twice from about 20 feet. Maybe 25 feet. Unless I missed twice, which I doubt I did, I saw no holes. Then I walked up to it point blank and it put a hole but looked like it barely went in. This was a JSB dome pellet out of a gas piston converted and ported gamo varmit hunter. I don’t remember the fps I was getting out of this combo. I think around 900. Maybe my gun it broke? I’ll have to check it.

 

The only armadillo’s I’ve seen shot or shot myself, were during hunting trips, so .308, .223 , 50 cal muzzleloaders, and .44 magnum revolver were used.
No runners.😂😂😂

 

I usually default to a .410 shotgun for pest control, if that’s to noisy, I would use CB’s in a long barrel .22 rifle.
When I had rats eating up the wiring on all my vehicles, I was able to use the old crimped . 22 shot shells with good effect to about 10 ft in a long barreled rifle. At 7 feet, I killed a rat the size of a red squirrel, he didn’t even make it 3” after he was hit. I was worried it wouldn’t do the job.
Another round that might work on armadillo if it’s not to loud, is the .17 HMR. They have tiny lightweight bullets and are pretty explosive, might anchor them without over penetration and help reduce ricochets.
I have a couple but never shot anything but paper with them.

 

I usually default to a .410 shotgun for pest control, if that’s to noisy, I would use CB’s in a long barrel .22 rifle.
When I had rats eating up the wiring on all my vehicles, I was able to use the old crimped . 22 shot shells with good effect to about 10 ft in a long barreled rifle. At 7 feet, I killed a rat the size of a red squirrel, he didn’t even make it 3” after he was hit. I was worried it wouldn’t do the job.
Another round that might work on armadillo if it’s not to loud, is the .17 HMR. They have tiny lightweight bullets and are pretty explosive, might anchor them without over penetration and help reduce ricochets.
I have a couple but never shot anything but paper with them.

.17 Remington will destroy many small critters.

 

I think this might be what I need for rimfire. I'm going to order a brick. 40 grain hollow point at 1470 fps.

 

I forgot to insert the link.
Hollow Point Interceptor

 

The R1 does 17 foot pounds with the Crosman 7.9 grain hp's with the replacement spring that I put in it, I had just got the rifle rezeroed after having it apart when two of them came out of my azaleas by the house about twenty yards away. In daylight, which is rare. I'm not a great shot with springers but that was easy.

 

you got both of them? Shot placement?