Up late.. hunting armadillo.. I love living in the country.

DoubleAtotheRON

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This mother fucker has been tearing up my yard for days now. I missed him a few nights ago... too dark and I was a bit lit. Flipped the back flood lights on tonight, there he was.... showtime. I got my 1957 Browning 12G auto and sneaked around the house from the garage..... boom! ... dead. But, just like anything else, there will be another one right behind him.
 

FirstCavApache64

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This mother fucker has been tearing up my yard for days now. I missed him a few nights ago... too dark and I was a bit lit. Flipped the back flood lights on tonight, there he was.... showtime. I got my 1957 Browning 12G auto and sneaked around the house from the garage..... boom! ... dead. But, just like anything else, there will be another one right behind him.
There's no better feeling than when you finally get to put a round in a predator or a pest that's been driving you nuts like that. It's Caddyshack revenge! I get bears that tear shit up from time to time but they get a pass if it's just a one time hit and run. Possums and groundhogs in the garden however do not fare quite so well. My feral cats know when the gun goes off they're eating well, since that's about the only wild animal I won't eat. I'm so far out in the boonies we can fire Barrett .50 cal rifles and nobody calls it in. They're just used to it. Armadillo are nasty bastards though, I think they can carry leprosy if I remember right. I shot one with a bow at a field training exercise where we weren't "technically" allowed to have civilian weapons and got in some trouble because someone freaked out about the leprosy thing. I don't know if it's true, I just remember some punk narced me out about hiding my bow in the tool room.
 

DoubleAtotheRON

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There's no better feeling than when you finally get to put a round in a predator or a pest that's been driving you nuts like that. It's Caddyshack revenge! I get bears that tear shit up from time to time but they get a pass if it's just a one time hit and run. Possums and groundhogs in the garden however do not fare quite so well. My feral cats know when the gun goes off they're eating well, since that's about the only wild animal I won't eat. I'm so far out in the boonies we can fire Barrett .50 cal rifles and nobody calls it in. They're just used to it. Armadillo are nasty bastards though, I think they can carry leprosy if I remember right. I shot one with a bow at a field training exercise where we weren't "technically" allowed to have civilian weapons and got in some trouble because someone freaked out about the leprosy thing. I don't know if it's true, I just remember some punk narced me out about hiding my bow in the tool room.
Yeah,.. they are destructive little bastards. We killed 16 moles last year. Pack them tunnels down, and grab a cool drink, and wait. As soon as you see that patch pop up... boom!
 

FirstCavApache64

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Well I'm glad I shot the little bastard for running through our barracks then. It actually came into the old WW2 barracks we were staying in for a live fire gunnery qualification out at Ft Hood and was running around freaking people out. I had my bow in the tool room so I ran down and got it and put a broad head through one side of it and it got stuck in the other side of it's hide. Once someone mentioned leprosy rubber gloves came out and he went in a burn barrel with some jp8 jet fuel. It cost me 30 days extra duty all because someone snitched. So much for brotherhood right?
 

FirstCavApache64

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Yeah,.. they are destructive little bastards. We killed 16 moles last year. Pack them tunnels down, and grab a cool drink, and wait. As soon as you see that patch pop up... boom!
Armadillos are the worst on a motorcycle. I damn near died blowing out a tire from not missing one of them on my V-Star. Luckily I just did a lot of side to side tank slapping and pants shitting but yeah, I'm not a fan. Moles are the very bane of my existence this year. I've tried poison, traps and the ever hilarious wind powered mole evictor but they're tunnels are criss crossing what's left of my lawn. I've got moles and voles, twice the fun. The Japanese beetle grubs got out of hand and now the moles are having a picnic. I need to put down milky spore badly to kill the grubs.
 

xtsho

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ARMADILLO MEATLOAF

11/2 lbs. ground meat
2 eggs, beaten
1/8 c. dry crumbs
1 c. evaporated milk
1/4 onion, minced or grated
1/4 tsp. thyme
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

Soak meat overnight in salted water (1 tablespoon salt to 1 quart water). Remove meat from bones and grind. Mix thoroughly with other ingredients. Place in meat loaf dish. Place dish in pan containing hot water. Bake in a moderate oven, 350 degrees for 11/4 hours to 2 hours.
 

FirstCavApache64

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ARMADILLO MEATLOAF

11/2 lbs. ground meat
2 eggs, beaten
1/8 c. dry crumbs
1 c. evaporated milk
1/4 onion, minced or grated
1/4 tsp. thyme
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

Soak meat overnight in salted water (1 tablespoon salt to 1 quart water). Remove meat from bones and grind. Mix thoroughly with other ingredients. Place in meat loaf dish. Place dish in pan containing hot water. Bake in a moderate oven, 350 degrees for 11/4 hours to 2 hours.
Anytime the recipe calls for soaking overnight in salt water you know it's a tough piece of meat. The bones on those little guys are hard as steel and I wouldn't want to field dress one even if they tasted like lobster. I'm pretty much a hillbilly when it comes to eating game but I'll pass on the armadillos and possum. I will however ask for seconds on the snake if it's offered. I developed quite a taste for rattlesnake when I was living in Texas and it's hard to find around here. Rattlesnake meat chili with fresh Texas chili's used to put my wife on the couch from my gas lol. That stuff will give you an ulcer.
 

DoubleAtotheRON

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ARMADILLO MEATLOAF

11/2 lbs. ground meat
2 eggs, beaten
1/8 c. dry crumbs
1 c. evaporated milk
1/4 onion, minced or grated
1/4 tsp. thyme
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

Soak meat overnight in salted water (1 tablespoon salt to 1 quart water). Remove meat from bones and grind. Mix thoroughly with other ingredients. Place in meat loaf dish. Place dish in pan containing hot water. Bake in a moderate oven, 350 degrees for 11/4 hours to 2 hours.
That's a hard pass. If the food shortage gets really bad, I might consider it, but we have better options like deer, rabbit, dove, turkeys, quail.
 

FirstCavApache64

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Hell around here even I can double up with the amount of does we have and I can barely walk. I never have a freezer less than half full of venison. No hormones, antibiotics or chemicals added it's one of the leanest,healthiest red meats other than ostrich and I haven't seen any ostriches in the woods round here.2381~2.jpeg
 

natureboygrower

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Armadillos are the worst on a motorcycle. I damn near died blowing out a tire from not missing one of them on my V-Star. Luckily I just did a lot of side to side tank slapping and pants shitting but yeah, I'm not a fan. Moles are the very bane of my existence this year. I've tried poison, traps and the ever hilarious wind powered mole evictor but they're tunnels are criss crossing what's left of my lawn. I've got moles and voles, twice the fun. The Japanese beetle grubs got out of hand and now the moles are having a picnic. I need to put down milky spore badly to kill the grubs.
Have you been adding the milky spore long? I've heard it takes 5 years to be established in the ground in order to kill the larvae/grubs. Japanese beetles are the fastest leaf eaters I've ever seen. They absolutely destroy morning glory leaves. Nasty bastards
 

FirstCavApache64

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I used to do it anually when my kids lived with us as they helped me out around the yard but since my daughter moved out it's been awhile. It takes a year or so to really start to see results as far as the mole population. As far as the beetles I'm not sure, I let them be for the most part. I don't garden outdoors anymore other than a few roses and I just treat them with a 3 in one spray and let them ride. I used to have extensive raised beds for veggies and they were much more of an issue then that's why I put the milky spore down annually back then. They'll do a number on roses too, the little bastards. One year my wife got me a little electric tennis racquet for swatting bugs. It was a bug zapper racquet, I had so much fun swatting them and those damn carpenter bees it was sad. It things like that, that make you realize you have finally crossed over into old man territory :mrgreen:
 

FirstCavApache64

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This is literally what I see when I look in the mirror some days :bigjoint:. I have to start going into town more. Thank God I have an understanding wife. One of my all time favorite movies. I wonder if he ever took his hybrid to the commercial market? It would be great to be able to play 36 holes of golf and then take it home and get stoned to the bejeebus off of it:D
 
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