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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:09 AM, <eureka AT hctc.net> <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> I have not heard this story. Which Texans protected
> armadillos? Most of the Texans I know stay up all night to
> shoot them.

Probably an apocryphal story; people need to blame someone for their  
troubles. I have heard it so many times I thought it was true. I  
remember discussions at pot-lucks and such where the predominant  
solution was "trap 'em, load 'em up into an eighteen wheeler and let  
'em out on the front lawn of the Texas governors mansion."

I am seriously thinking of getting a night vision rifle telescope. Not  
cheap. The move is to shoot them with a twenty-two, which does not  
kill them outright (they do jump straight up into the air, which is  
entertaining) so they go back to their dens and bury themselves. I got  
real tired of carrying them out away from the house where the buzzards  
would get to them.