If you don't count the last glaciation period, armadillos are relatively new here, showing up around 1980. Maybe. Would have thought highway vehicles were sufficient to keep them in check, but apparently not. Now there's a big one I need to get rid of.
"No problem," said I. "I'll, just pop it with a .22."
"Your father said when he use his .22, the bullets bounced off," my mother said.
Now, my father was a much better shot than I am, but that last bit had me going "Ehhh." Since his foray into armadillo hunting was in his later years, I wondered if he had just missed. But it had me wondering: What if it did? Is such a thing possible?
A check turned up an instance of a Texas man who had his .38 ricochet off an armadillo and strike him in the face. In another instance, a Georgia man had a 9mm ricochet off an armadillo, through a fence, through the back door of a trailer, through a recliner, striking his mother in the back.
So this is giving me a bit of a pause. Surely you don't need FMJ in .308 or larger for armadillo. Do you?
"No problem," said I. "I'll, just pop it with a .22."
"Your father said when he use his .22, the bullets bounced off," my mother said.
Now, my father was a much better shot than I am, but that last bit had me going "Ehhh." Since his foray into armadillo hunting was in his later years, I wondered if he had just missed. But it had me wondering: What if it did? Is such a thing possible?
A check turned up an instance of a Texas man who had his .38 ricochet off an armadillo and strike him in the face. In another instance, a Georgia man had a 9mm ricochet off an armadillo, through a fence, through the back door of a trailer, through a recliner, striking his mother in the back.
So this is giving me a bit of a pause. Surely you don't need FMJ in .308 or larger for armadillo. Do you?
