Got three or four working around my house in the country. Need advice on proven ways to eliminate this state mammal, Tried game cameras to find feed times to no avail.

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Invite 2 buddies over on Friday. Sit on the porch all night pounding beers until the rapscallion makes an appearance. 2 of you run him down while the 3rd videos the heroic feat. Then post the success video on the innerwebz for his fellow armadillos to watch so they understand the gravity of their situation

This is the only sure way to deal with the issue.

Put a deer blind up in your backyard. Then every time you get excited thinking someThing big is coming through the brush, you realize it's the damn armadillos underneath your stand.

Find their armadillo hole and pee in it to show him you are the master of the domain.

Shoot his nuts off.

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One of my favorite songs from him!

My dad and I always say "they take them frozen down in halletsville" when describing something getting killed or is broken. Most people look at us like we are crazy but every now and then somebody will say "Three dollars, maybe more" right after we say it.

Put some Lonestars out in the yard for the little buggers and pick 'em off with the .22 when they show up to drink the irresistible nectar.

One of the funniest sights I ever saw was my 70 some year old grand-mom chasing a damn armadillo through the yard with a hoe back over her head trying to whack the thing. Her sun hat was flapping around and she was moving faster than I thought she could at that age. This all happened right as I pulled up to her house and I sat there in the car and watched in wonder and amazement and could not stop laughing

They are after grubs/insects so eliminate the food source and they have no reason to dig up the yard. Maybe easier said than done but that is the long term solution.

Killed my first armadillo at the age of seven with one throw of a rock about the size of a golf ball to his temple from about thirty feet away. Shocked that I even hit him and then even more shocked when he jumped about three feet in the air and landed in the Guadalupe River. Bank was too steep for him to climb out (like they do from ponds) and he drown. Prayed each night for a week for that damned armadillo. My older brothers were impressed with my rock throwing skills.

I shot 4 last fall. Wouldn't stop destroying my yard. No real sense of time. Got two around 8:30pm, one around 12, and 2am. Look for the dens but only thing else is sit up and wait.

Blue Lacy does it for us.

I've killed well over a 100+ in my yard over the 13 years where I live. Only way is to get up in the middle of the night with a spot light and look for them and blast them.

The good news for me is my son brought home a rescue dog over a year ago. Part boxer and part pit bull. One of the best dogs we have ever had. And the bonus is he HATES armadillos! He can crunch through the back of one in no time. I haven't had to kill one since we got him. If we go out on the gator for a ride in the pasture and he sees one, he is on it in no time.

Had one in my front yard that had been tearing things up for a quite some time. Waited for him one night and before I could shoot him, my dog chased him into a hole up underneath a large oak on the edge of my yard (didn't shoot because dog was too close). I could barely see his rear way down in the hole and out of reach, so I knew he couldn't go any further. But, I didn't want to shoot him and either have him lay there and stink up the yard; and I didn't want to have to dig the bloody mess out of the hole. So, I left the dog watching him while I went inside and boiled a big pot of water.

I then put the dog inside the house. It took that armadillo about half a second to come shooting out of that hole once the hot water went down the hole.

Shot one from 4' with a 12 gauge one time. Blew armadillo all over the exterior wall of my house.

Used a .22 every time after that.

I caught 6 last year using this live trap funnel method. No bait needed. Set the trap up next to a barrier(like your house) they will use for travel. Create a boarder that will guide them into the trap.

I made the 12ga mistake with my first one. Switched to 45 to the head on the rest. Fast, no mess.

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Shot one from 4' with a 12 gauge one time. Blew armadillo all over the exterior wall of my house.

Used a .22 every time after that.

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I made the same mistake. Armadillo was tearing up the yard and flowerbeds to I grabbed the 12 gauge and blasted the dern thing right in the face. That dam armadillo jumps about 3 feet in the air two or three times and screamed like no other. Our yard looked like a murder scene with all the blood strung everywhere. First time I ever killed an armadillo and last time I used a 12 gauge.

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I caught 6 last year using this live trap funnel method. No bait needed. Set the trap up next to a barrier(like your house) they will use for travel. Create a boarder that will guide them into the trap.

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This works! Be patient.....but it works!

We used "the armadillotrap". ....the scented one. It works amazingly well. We no longer have an armadillo problem.

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One of my favorite songs from him!

My dad and I always say "they take them frozen down in halletsville" when describing something getting killed or is broken. Most people look at us like we are crazy but every now and then somebody will say "Three dollars, maybe more" right after we say it.

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Y'all beat me to it, was going to suggest frozen to Halletsville. Love that song, still remember laughing the first time I heard it.

I'm just curious why armadillos bother some of you so much, especially out in the country. We had one than lived in a burrow beside a waterfall that feeds our pond. He'd be out every night feeding. Initially the dogs would charge him but he ignored them so when they got to him, they just stood there for a minute and finally just got bored and left. Within a week or two they totally ignored him. That said, all he'd really do is scratch around in the mulch and dirt a little bit but really never made enough of a mess for me to be bothered. Some stories on here make it sound like they ruin yards like a backhoe. Just curious.

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I'm just curious why armadillos bother some of you so much, especially out in the country. We had one than lived in a burrow beside a waterfall that feeds our pond. He'd be out every night feeding. Initially the dogs would charge him but he ignored them so when they got to him, they just stood there for a minute and finally just got bored and left. Within a week or two they totally ignored him. That said, all he'd really do is scratch around in the mulch and dirt a little bit but really never made enough of a mess for me to be bothered. Some stories on here make it sound like they ruin yards like a backhoe. Just curious.

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Since they eat grubs, worms, and insects, I think the damage they do is correlated to the health of the lawn.

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I'm just curious why armadillos bother some of you so much, especially out in the country. We had one than lived in a burrow beside a waterfall that feeds our pond. He'd be out every night feeding. Initially the dogs would charge him but he ignored them so when they got to him, they just stood there for a minute and finally just got bored and left. Within a week or two they totally ignored him. That said, all he'd really do is scratch around in the mulch and dirt a little bit but really never made enough of a mess for me to be bothered. Some stories on here make it sound like they ruin yards like a backhoe. Just curious.

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You haven't seen the damage they've done to my yard. After one night, it would look like bombs hit all over my yard.

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One of the funniest sights I ever saw was my 70 some year old grand-mom chasing a damn armadillo through the yard with a hoe back over her head trying to whack the thing. Her sun hat was flapping around and she was moving faster than I thought she could at that age. This all happened right as I pulled up to her house and I sat there in the car and watched in wonder and amazement and could not stop laughing

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We must be cousins.....when I was younger I watched my Grandma do the same thing. She was in her sixties at the time and used an axe instead of a hoe. She also defeated her enemy with a well aimed swipe of that dull axe. Never get in between an old lady and her garden.

Yeah she was working in the garden. She used to keep a half acre garden by the house. She was having none of that critter getting into her vegetables.

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Inside neighborhoods - 22 short

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Tried game cameras to find feed times to no avail.

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From my own observation, they are mostly nocturnal, although as kids we chased them at any time of day.

But if anyone who sits in a deer blind on a regular basis may notice, the armadillo activity usually starts about the same time of day.... close to sunset.... and of course, as someone already posted, this is when you think you can hear that big buck, or hog, coming. I don't remember seeing them that much in early mornings.

I would compare them somewhat to mice and rats.... once human activity quiets down, they think it is safe to come around.

soak a small area with water real deep. in the soaked area, place two 4x4's into a v shape guiding the dillo into the live trap. worked when I was a kid.

shot a few with arrows. they brake the arrow every time.

probably more fun to sit with a gun, spotlight and a 6 pack though

I strung some baling wire about 3-4" off the ground and put a cowbell on it, then slept with my windows open. When he came out to dig, he hit the wire and rang the bell, waking me up and sending me out to dispatch his ass with my .22.

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Yep, I have killed a dozen or more using Aguila SSS .22LR with a 60 grain bullet. Really packs a punch. One shot, one kill every time! The first one I shot center mass had an exit wound the size of a quarter.

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I strung some baling wire about 3-4" off the ground and put a cowbell on it, then slept with my windows open. When he came out to dig, he hit the wire and rang the bell, waking me up and sending me out to dispatch his ass with my .22.

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Come on...you'll shoot your eye out kid.

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I'm just curious why armadillos bother some of you so much, especially out in the country. We had one than lived in a burrow beside a waterfall that feeds our pond. He'd be out every night feeding. Initially the dogs would charge him but he ignored them so when they got to him, they just stood there for a minute and finally just got bored and left. Within a week or two they totally ignored him. That said, all he'd really do is scratch around in the mulch and dirt a little bit but really never made enough of a mess for me to be bothered. Some stories on here make it sound like they ruin yards like a backhoe. Just curious.

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You haven't seen the damage they've done to my yard. After one night, it would look like bombs hit all over my yard.

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They haven't hit our yard (although hogs have) but they have wreaked havoc in the flower beds at times.