Texan Man Shoots Armadillo; Ends Up With a Bullet In His Jaw - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;48443029]They are? [img]http://i.imgur.com/2Oc9Of4.png[/img][/QUOTE] Not that one, every other one is however, and people are too dumb to tell the difference

[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;48443563]If he had used .45 STOPPAN POWA this wouldn't have happened[/QUOTE] Should have used 45mm

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;48445096]They're reported because you don't usually expect bullets to ricochet off an animal.[/QUOTE] I'm not talking about that though, as that would imply they actually are bulletproof.

[QUOTE=Sableye;48445100]Not that one, every other one is however, and people are too dumb to tell the difference[/QUOTE] Nine-banded armadillos are [I]the only kind[/I] of armadillo in Texas. They're very, very, very common, and absolute pests. Almost all of the Dasypus genus are least concert or not threatened, and they're the kind people think about when they hear "armadillo." I don't know why you think armadillos are endangered - look through every species on the Wikipedia page and you'll find that there are very few rated even "vulnerable." Armadillos aren't endangered in the slightest. Almost all of them live in South America in rainforests and areas where humans have barely even touched their numbers. There is no endangered armadillo. There are vulnerable ones, like the Brazilian three-banded armadillo, the giant armadillo, the Andean hairy armadillo, and the hairy long-nosed armadillo, but there are zero armadillo species that are actually endangered. Notice that none of these are Texan. They're in South America. The nine-banded armadillo is quite literally one of the only armadillos in Texas, and they're "least concern." They're reclusive and only come out at night, but I've seen upwards of 10 living in Texas in suburban neighborhoods and they do what they can to avoid human contact.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;48445216]I'm not talking about that though, as that would imply they actually are bulletproof.[/QUOTE] The bullet probably came in at an oblique angle which caused it to ricochet and somehow hit him, it wouldn't just bounce straight back, unless it was a fragment that hit him as opposed to the full bullet.

[QUOTE=proch;48445192]Should have used 45mm[/QUOTE] 45mm? I seriously hope you're referring to artillery rather than a .45 slug.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;48445503]45mm? I seriously hope you're referring to artillery rather than a .45 slug.[/QUOTE] He was obviously joking, but 45mm wouldn't make a very good artillery shell anyway.

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;48445510]He was obviously joking, but 45mm wouldn't make a very good artillery shell anyway.[/QUOTE] [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_mm_grenade[/url] There's that. Big ass grenade.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;48445216]I'm not talking about that though, as that would imply they actually are bulletproof.[/QUOTE] Armored/bullet resistant would probably be a better term they're not impenetrable. [IMG_THUMB]http://i.imgur.com/o2woIle.jpg[/IMG_THUMB] It's basically natural armor, hence the name.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;48445503]45mm? I seriously hope you're referring to artillery rather than a .45 slug.[/QUOTE] [url=https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YRaTdw0fNy8/VLi7DBE-G4I/AAAAAAAAJ40/uyIokGF-LoI/w506-h691/15%2B-%2B1]He was referencing this[/url]

[QUOTE=Sableye;48442796]OK this is like the 5th or 6th time a person in the American southwest shot an armadillo and it backfired, please stop trying to kill these things, they're partly endangered as it is[/QUOTE] They are not even native, they are an invasive species, I hope they go extinct from the areas they are not supposed to be...

[QUOTE=Snoberry Tea;48445598][url=https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YRaTdw0fNy8/VLi7DBE-G4I/AAAAAAAAJ40/uyIokGF-LoI/w506-h691/15%2B-%2B1]He was referencing this[/url][/QUOTE] 1789?

[QUOTE=TornadoAP;48445704]1789?[/QUOTE] As if that's the most inaccurate part

[QUOTE=Swebonny;48443940]Are Armadillos actually bulletproof or is it because bullets ricochet toward the shooter more often than we think, but only gets reported when it involves Armadillos?[/QUOTE] No armadillos aren't actually at all bulletproof, they're common around here and it's not unheard of to kill them with bullets even smaller than .38. I don't know why people think BULLETS would ricochet off them. Their plates are for protection against claws and teeth, bullets are a whole other animal. The likely scenario is the guy THOUGHT he hit the armadillo (it was at 3 AM so it'd be pretty poorly lit) and instead actually hit something else like a rock or concrete at an angle. The only animal you could ever really expect a bullet to ricochet off of is maybe a big turtle if you're using a low caliber round.

Would a 12 gauge slug have sufficed?

[QUOTE=BFG9000;48453558]Would a 12 gauge slug have sufficed?[/QUOTE] Buckshot works too.