Armadillos

[Larry]

Almost bagged this trophy today but my bullets just bounced off that armor.

If President Fillmore had a tough immigration policy in 1850 these critters never would have made it here. He is why I quit voting on the Whig ticket.

To my Yankee friends, these critters will be in your area soon. Taste a lot like southern fried chicken only a little spicier.

[doc henderson]

Well, eating armo with grits will at least make the grits seem to taste better!

[twar]

Well, eating armo with grits will at least make the grits seem to taste better!

I suggest instead either bacon fat and blackberry jam OR cream, cheese and shrimp. 
(Everything is better with saturated fat.)

[Magicman]

I ate a taste of Armadillo.  It wasn't bad but I did not go back for seconds.  I have also eaten Coon and Rattlesnake and I did not ask for a second helping of it either.  I have never eaten Possum.

[YellowHammer]

Anything that can carry leprosy is off my dinner plate!  The buzzards won't even eat them here.  

[WV Sawmiller]

   The armadillo I ate tasted like good roast pork. I guess you guys just don't know how to cook it right.

    They are about as blind as a bat. I've chased them and watched them run into trees, stumps, and the last one I herded to my wife and daughter to photograph it and it ran up to her truck, stopped and jumped right into the right front wheel, bounced off and got up and dribbled off into the brush.

[Magicman]

Anything that can carry leprosy is off my dinner plate!

I agree.  My Armadillo eating experience was long before the leprosy situation was known to us.

[Larry]

Maybe a little tongue-in-cheek when I said they tasted like chicken  

They are nasty animals, Hank won't even bark or chase them   He even puts them in a class lower than toads!

YellowHammer, you must have some real high class buzzards in your vicinity. This is one I shot about 10 years ago off my deck. It was really cold so I let it lay and you can see what found it.

At the time BIL was department head in the wildlife department at Texas A&M. He used my picture as a teaching aid on eagles!

[YellowHammer]

We have very high class buzzards, after all they are Bama fans.

[customsawyer]

They do like to make holes that are hard on my ankles.

[doc henderson]

I found a bunch of fresh holes in the back yard.  they are small and must be the squirrels burying acorns.

[GAB]

Being from VT, what I know about armadillos you can safely write on the back of a USA flag postage stamp and have room left over.  Based on what I've heard I thought they were Texas speed bumps.
I did not realize that their range was that large.

@Larry:
Thanks for the pictures, I now know what one looks like.

GAB