Armadillos in the North Georgia Mountains??????????

[stealhunt]

I knew it was only a matter of time. I first seen the nasty armadillo at the Redlands WMA about 6 or 7 years ago. After that, I knew it was only a matter of time before they would be up in the mountains. I travel to NW Arkansas and they have been there for some time so it's not a matter of climate, just a migration issue.
Today, I was coming home from a scouting trip on the Chattahoochee WMA. About a mile south of Cleveland Ga., on Hwy. 129, I saw him. I actually turned around and went back to confirm it. Yep, it was a roadkill armadillo.
Anybody else from North Georgia seen one?

 

[Bogboy]

Whenever I head north up towards Amicolola Falls I always see at least 1 of the little suckers dead on the road

 

[Abbsnkan]

Been seeing them in Stephens co

 

[moosensquirrel]

They make excellent targets! I have shot them with everything from 450gr .500 Holland & Holland to .22 rimfire. The round that seems to splatter them the most is 85gr .243

 

[stealhunt]

I shot one with a Ruger .22, using a flashlight to see with .....It went straight up, over my head and out of the light....Came down about 10 yards over, I thought I was toast! Kinda funny actually.

 

[Retread]

Ozark special: Road kill on a half shell.

 

[GA-Silver]

They are in Tennesse too. I live near the state line and there have made there way up there. Used to be you never saw one until around Macon...

 

[Dbodt]

So why you guys shooting armadillos surely not for the meat?

 

[Patronus]

They are carriers of leprosy...try not to play with them eh?

 

[DixieDoug]

They eat dead sasquatches......trail them all over.....that's why you never find a dead sasquatch.