5.56 vs Armadillo (GRAPHIC)

[lloydkristmas]

Went hunting for rabbit tonight, ended up finding this guy wandering through the field, 2 rounds of 55gr 5.56 impacted at the same time as one round of heavy birdshot. Im guessing the majority of the damage is from the 5.56

Needless to say he didnt make it too far

 

[interlock]

it's a good job you were so well tooled up, them armourdillos are tough dudes, sometimes it can be kill or be killed

 

[nathan]

5.56 did its job well.

 

[pikid89]

nice...ive seen them get up and run after taking 3 .38s point blank...all i will use on those jokers is my 270

with the exception of the running headshot into frontflip i got with my ruger mkII pistol lol no lie

 

[Marlin 45 carbine]

oh he's dead allright.

 

[arkansashillbilly]

Hate those things. 12ga works well in #5 for them. I wouldn't touch them like that though. Rumor has it some of em carry leprosy. I always shovel them into the tactical wheelbarrow to cart them off.
I've eaten many things that walk and crawl, possum-on-the-half-shell will never be one of em.

 

[WardenWolf]

What's he doing dead off the road? ;-)

A joke, because if you ever drive through Texas, you see hundreds of dead armadillos on the road.

 

[ronto]

In the last few years, got 7 of them at night with 12ga #4 shot and 2 in broad daylight with my 357 snubbie. They are so dumb I can usually get within 10-15 yards of them while they are busy digging holes in my front yard. They rate along with ticks as my most unfavorite critters and your pictures warm the cockles of my heart...I urge you to go out and get some more.

 

[mec]

Ive eaten many dozes of those things and handled hundreds and never have caught either hansons or chagas disease. You can kill them with anything if you shoot through the front shell plate.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Careful handling Armadillos. Those little suckers carry leprosy.

http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/23/2/220.pdf

 

[nathan]

They are weird looking creatures!

 

[MachIVshooter]

They are weird looking creatures!

You should see the babies. My sister had a bunch at her bio lab. They look like piglets that got wrapped with hot wire. Uuuuuuuuugly!

 

[Art Eatman]

The world's most vicious animal. I regularly see them on their back in the middle of the road, waiting to trap a car...

 

[publiuss]

the strain of leprocy they can have is not transmittable to humans. they are darn near blind but can feel vibrations very well.

 

[interlock]

i bet this one felt some vibrations when that 5.56 round went through it

 

[CoRoMo]

Good kill. Dad killed one on a Texas deer hunt when I was a little boy. It is a good memory of mine. His .30-30 cut it in half as I recall.

 

[LeonCarr]

Several years ago here in Texas there was a giant one tearing open Lone Star beer trucks and drinking the contents.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[CSA 357]

i used to sneak up on them and grab them by the tail and slam them on the ground real hard

 

[Tacbandit]

Quote:
"The world's most vicious animal. I regularly see them on their back in the middle of the road, waiting to trap a car..."

Hey Art... I've seen 'em trying that very same thing... even funnier when you see a groundhog trying to imitate that move ... lol
It still seems strange to me though, when we see armadillos as we travel through southern Tennessee, and northern Alabama.

 

[mec]

Used to grab them as they went down a hole and generally ended up shoulder deep wondering if there might be a snake in there too. They could swell out and jam themselves tight and it was a trick pulling them out. Usually had to let tme move forward and then yank hard before they could reemboss themselves into the hole.
At one time, they were very common around here and it was not unusual to see them all over a field or wood lot. Like other small animals, they have not faired at all well against the mass urbanization and general overpopulation of Texas. Squirrels do well in the cities but the country side, such that it is, have very little besides deer, hogs, sheep, goats and cattle.

 

[nathan]

They gorge on insects , worms and bugs of all kind.

 

[qajaq59]

A joke, because if you ever drive through Texas, you see hundreds of dead armadillos on the road.

Nope, they're not really dead.... Actually armadillos flatten out and sleep on roads. lol

 

[mec]

Why did the Armadillo cross the road?
To show that it Could Be Done.

 

[Rokman]

Definately looks as thought the 5.56 is up to the task. The largest cartridge that I have used on one was the .30 Carbine.

 

[nickE10mm]

That looks about right. I shoot them on site, too.

...They HATE my Razorback 10mm.