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I'm blessed to have both groundhogs and armadillos on the farm.  Groundhogs are prone to dig under shelter such as slabs of concrete or logs.  Armadillos will dig in the wide open but will also dig under bush hogs, base of power poles, etc.

Critter hunting, day or night, has become a source of amusement for me.  A light mounted Ruger 10/22 has been given the name "Critter Gitter" and the Ruger SR22 is known as the "Armadillo Assassin."  Of course, no one pays attention to late night gun shots out here.

This hole here

 

Has me befuddled.  It's not an entry hole.  it would be excavated on all sides like an oblong funnel.  This pic has no funnel sides, but with lips around for hanging vegetation, yet unlike a sink hole, has a shelf just below for the critter to pause and observe before exiting.  I don't know that armadillos do exit holes but groundhogs do.

Anyhow, GBRK, lay a conibear across the opening.  Maybe illegal as hell but no more so than blowing it away with a 5.56mmNATO round in the middle of the night in a suburban neighborhood.

Off the front porch, I pop at least on armadillo per week and a groundhog maybe twice a year.

Your photo is also another example of how badly we need rain.

 


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