Story worth reading, similar experience, 1982.
We don't have those things in Va.
Glad we don't, they look demonic in a way like God created everything and Satan was allowed to make a few, with
this one being his first try.
I have seen them, and they look like an opossum in early evolution.
All the shots remind me of a time during deer season one year my wife and I were returning from a rifle
hunting trip. A racoon crossed the road acting nuts. I got out with my camera and a model s&w 29-2 in the
other hand guessing it had rabies --- I had helped law officials handle them before and knew it need to be
dispatched.
It climbed a tree up to my head high and began reaching at me as if it were a zombie and I was just about
to GIVE HIM MERCY like a head removal with the mag, when I heard a vehicle idling at a distance. It was a pair of game wardens
watching this guy in deer season with a mag and a camera standing just off the road with blaze orange on.
I handed the revolver to my wife in the truck and motioned them to come drive on up.
They crawled their vehicle up and one, Wayne, recognized me, so all was good.
I showed him the racoon and he agreed it probably had rabies and told me they need to shoot it without
damaging the head, so they could send it off for confirmation in case of a breakout.
He said to warn my wife not to watch and she insisted she get to see it.
Wayne got a semi auto 22 caliber Ruger from his vehicle and ---get this --- he had to shoot it in the body
8 as in the #8 times before it dropped off the tree and still wallowed around a bit. If my wife had been squeamish
it would have been a nightmare. But it seems like the THREAD said, an unusual amount of ammo to kill
some common animals. The armadillo probably didn't have rabies but sometimes the smaller stuff can be tuff.
PS: Back then we didn't know we had to shoot ZOMBIES in the head.