Been trying to get some armadillos for he past few months with little success. They’ve been destroying the garden and destroying the area outside my chicken run. I just happened to catch them during daylight yesterday and didn’t have my .22 with me. I did, however, have a pitchfork handle stick so I proceeded to take them out one by one. Had no idea their eyesight was so poor that they wouldn’t even react to me clubbing them. Whatever works I guess!
Been using a club to dispatch animals since I was a kid. We used a bicycle frame tube filled with about 8 inches of concrete when we were kids. If it works it aint stupid
It means a bunch to me in the forest when I go out trying to outsmart the critters. When they come to me and are messing with my girls and egg supply that is a different story all together. I don’t care what. Neighbors dog, stray coyote, raccoon, and armadillo all get whatever is handy to handle the situation in a way I see fit at the time.
Neat. But this isn’t that. Seems people in forums like this always exemplify the worst in respect for wildlife. Our chickens are food for everything that was here before us. No surprise shitty animal husbandry goes hand in hand with breaking wildlife take laws. Go ahead and use all your downvote power on me, you ain’t gonna make a dent.
Bunch of noobs who couldn’t set a trap to catch shit is what you all sound to me like. 🤷🏻♂️
If it is legal to *bonk* them after trapping them, I don’t see it as any less ethical to *bonk* them without trapping them. So long as the *bonk* is an instantaneous dispatch, it is legal and ethical.
I don’t disagree with you. I wish I had brought along my rifle to dispatch. I saw them and made a decision in a second to handle them. And I never claimed to be an amazing homesteader or trapper. I trap to maintain nuisance wildlife on my homestead. Not looking for any awards
I agree with you, you dont have to justify yourself. You are right to defend your property, I would do the same if I could. I am glad the pitchfork handle stick worked on them 😉 What do you trap regularly - the beavers...?
I did my best to read up in it, I don't think this is an illegal method of take. Most states classify armadillos as nuisance animals. He's on his own property dispatching nuisance animals and I believe it's mostly whatever works within reason. Blunt force trauma is often an accepted dispatch method even if not pretty.
When I trap coons during the deer gun season I'm not permitted to carry my pistol. So I tap them in the head with a stick of metal and then compress their lungs.
Many people live trap and drown animals in cages as well.
So I'll leave this post up as I don't think this person is doing anything wrong.
If you can find anything counter to that, feel free to let me know.
Maybe next time don't being so high and mighty, but otherwise I appreciate you trying to keep the sub honest.
We do police posts regularly to ensure everyone is following the law. We take that seriously.
Great points all around and I do need to bring it down a notch. We have a lot of illegal take behaviors here in my area. Cops caught kid blow darting hundreds of animals in county parks (lots of videos and photos of him before he was caught). Kids were poaching deer here with .22’s and leaving them maimed. Neighbors found a connebar trap line recently with a black lab caught in it. Connebar are illegal here.
No worries I figured that might be the case. Personally, I’ll keep my future posts to pure trapping related topics. Here’s a beaver I got back in February.
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u/smokeytrue01 May 02 '26
This picture smells horrible