#3071707 - 12/09/12 09:22 PM
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Rockhound
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Can i kill these things at night with a rimfire or not?
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#3071726 - 12/09/12 09:30 PM
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Not at night.
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#3071754 - 12/09/12 09:46 PM
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Thanks!
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#3071802 - 12/09/12 10:29 PM
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IMO this should be changed, they should be legal to kill at night like coons and opossums, but with no limit. Since they are mainly a nocturnal animal. I rarely see one during the day and last time I did, I had to poke it with the barrel of my 30-30 because I was on a big game quota hunt where small game was closed for the hunt. Them nasty things ought to be killed day or night. Not sure what your opinion is SCN, what you say?
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#3072024 - 12/10/12 07:28 AM
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I would think that shooting a firearm at night on ground level would be too dangerous.
Most opossums and raccoons are treed at night before they are shot.
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#3072122 - 12/10/12 08:40 AM
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IMO this should be changed, they should be legal to kill at night like coons and opossums, but with no limit. Since they are mainly a nocturnal animal. I rarely see one during the day and last time I did, I had to poke it with the barrel of my 30-30 because I was on a big game quota hunt where small game was closed for the hunt. Them nasty things ought to be killed day or night. Not sure what your opinion is SCN, what you say?
x1000!
I would love to be able to eliminate a few of the armadillos that root and tear up everything around the house. It would be one thing if they were native to our area and provided some benefit, but I can't see that they are anything but an unwanted pest. I have heard that they help tear up fire ant hills, but I can't tell that there are any fewer of the hills in my fields than before the armadillos became common about 7-8 years ago.
I can tell you that they move a lot faster than you think they can! One night a few weeks ago I saw one rooting around beside the house, so I grabbed a piece of 2x4 and snuck around the house to come up behind it to eliminate it. I got to within about 10 feet when he picked up his head and saw me, made some kind of hissing noise and took off across the yard. I have a fiest that is able to chase down squirrels, and I don't think she could have caught the thing as fast as it was running.
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#3072127 - 12/10/12 08:43 AM
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I would think that shooting a firearm at night on ground level would be too dangerous.
Most opossums and raccoons are treed at night before they are shot.
several states allow hunting for predators at night. shooting up into the air is just as dangerous.
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#3072192 - 12/10/12 09:22 AM
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IMO this should be changed, they should be legal to kill at night like coons and opossums, but with no limit. Since they are mainly a nocturnal animal. I rarely see one during the day and last time I did, I had to poke it with the barrel of my 30-30 because I was on a big game quota hunt where small game was closed for the hunt. Them nasty things ought to be killed day or night. Not sure what your opinion is SCN, what you say?
I agree
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#3072193 - 12/10/12 09:23 AM
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I would think that shooting a firearm at night on ground level would be too dangerous.
Most opossums and raccoons are treed at night before they are shot. several states allow hunting for predators at night. shooting up into the air is just as dangerous.
X2 shooting up in the air is probably more dangerous than shooting flat
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#3072285 - 12/10/12 10:05 AM
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Would be nice to have night time predator hunting.... No different than doing it in the day.... have to use common sense and follow the laws... so what's the issue?
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#3072439 - 12/10/12 11:48 AM
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Would be nice to have night time predator hunting.... No different than doing it in the day.... have to use common sense and follow the laws... so what's the issue?
far as I know, coyotes are vermin and I would not be opposed to baiting for coyotes using meat and/or carcasses. I know you can shoot one over a gut pile of a deer you gutted, but would be nice if you could actually put out some meat just for the coyotes at night and thin your population a bit quicker.
I have been hunting only 2 years but you would think I would have shot a coyote by now, nope, they are either out of range or I don't have the gun, and I don't see em very often.
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#3072470 - 12/10/12 12:07 PM
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Sorry to hijack, but many on here are under the impression that you can thin your coyote population out by shooting. In actuality, you will probably not make a dent. It takes significant time and money to even begin to make a dent in the population. The only ways that have been successful have been very intense trapping scenarios over very large areas, and that is not feasible in this part of the country.
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#3072895 - 12/10/12 04:03 PM
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true, but wouldn't shooting 5 or 6 over bait at night be a little better than shooting 1 coming to a call in the day?
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#3076760 - 12/12/12 10:00 PM
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My BIL says coyotes trap easy. He got into it thinking he was going to make a killing with the hides. He didn't have the skill necessary and the hides were not worth selling.
Reason why you can't hunt at night for vermin is because these stinking poachers would hide behind that cover. Remember, they are criminals.
Is it legal to poison armadillo's?????
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#3076827 - 12/12/12 11:01 PM
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Reason why you can't hunt at night for vermin is because these stinking poachers would hide behind that cover. Remember, they are criminals.
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#3077320 - 12/13/12 10:59 AM
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Reason why you can't hunt at night for vermin is because these stinking poachers would hide behind that cover. Remember, they are criminals.
that's why its rimfire only, for coons and opossum, they should include armadillo and coyote too. restrict the weapons at night so that the deer poachers cant hide behind the varmint rule.
A lot of what I have read says poachers use rimfire weapons, dont know how true it is, just what I have read.
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