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Quoted: I’ll never understand the thought process that makes someone feel bad about killing nuisance animals. Especially invasive species. Shoot with a pellet gun. Cut them open. Through in lake. Done View Quote Prairie Dogs explode. Have shot many. Never have eaten one. (of course) Not one damn GAF about it either. |
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Quoted: .22 Pellet rifle pushing 900 fps is plenty to take them out... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: My first instinct is to say choot 'em, but have you seen the prices on 22LR lately? .22 Pellet rifle pushing 900 fps is plenty to take them out... Didn't look that way in the video posted above. |
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Quoted: Iguanas are vegetarians. They won’t be eating any eggs. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Yup or kiss all your birds goodbye cause they'll eat every egg there Iguanas are vegetarians. They won’t be eating any eggs. That isn’t entirely true. They will eat bird eggs, but worse is that they destroy nest. |
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Quoted: Seasoned right, iguana isn't bad. View Quote A friend of mine moved to Honduras, he said it was a delicacy down there and as a result it was protected, illegal to eat.( not that it stopped anyone from selling them alongside the road. When he was alive we were trying to think of an angle to export the nuisance iguanas from Florida to Honduras. We never seriously looked into it past beer talk. |
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Yes, shoot them all. They're invasive. No different than anacondas in Florida.
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Quoted: I really wanted to like mine as well, it was a dick either shredding my skin or whipping me with it's tail. They don't want to be pets. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Lol. Same here. I still vividly remember the claws tearing my skin. They don't want to be pets. LOL! Yep, mine was always whipping me with its tail while hissing at me. Ended up giving it away. |
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I would love to try iguana! For those of you who have: is it similar to gator?
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Yep, slaughter them wholesale, they're an invasive species. A friend of mine down there uses a pellet gun on them; she chops the body into chunks for her crab traps or tosses them in the waterway near her house for the gators, turtles, catfish, etc to eat.
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View Quote Now that gal would be cool as hell to hang out with. |
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View Quote I want to show her my iguana. He, too, is an invasive species. |
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Used to shoot lizards as a kid with a pellet gun. Some of the most fun I've had.
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Why would you eat iguana when we have steak?
Fucking eliminate them. Treat them like rats. |
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My three nieces living in west palm area had a wonderful easter hatching of baby ducks in their back yard. One day while enjoying the fl sun watching their new pet ducks play...a large iguana showed up and promptly massacred the entire flock.
I would take the time to figue out how to skin then out and cook them just in case you need that skill fown the road. |
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Quoted: That isn’t entirely true. They will eat bird eggs, but worse is that they destroy nest. View Quote they will also eat nestling birds carry strains of salmonella and transmit staph bacteria infections. I have also witnessed one attack a 7 yr old kid and put a hurt on him requiring many stitches...we were throwing rocks at it first because it was hissing at us and making feint charges trying to scare us out from under a large mango tree. |
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View Quote Now I want a FA pellet rifle |
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Quoted: My three nieces living in west palm area had a wonderful easter hatching of baby ducks in their back yard. One day while enjoying the fl sun watching their new pet ducks play...a large iguana showed up and promptly massacred the entire flock. I would take the time to figue out how to skin then out and cook them just in case you need that skill fown the road. View Quote But, but, they're vegeterians! Iguanas don't eat other animals or destroy local ecosystems! Gamo Whisper .22 is where it's at. Ammo still available, extremely effective, incredibly fun, and completely legal (just be careful of your backstop and remember rule #4). |
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In 1994 Mom and Dad moved to Cape Coral for Moms retirement home job.
One time of the iguanas running across the brand new pool cage tearing up the screen was enough for my parents to buy air rifles and kill the fuckers. When they moved to Port Charlotte a few years later squirrels took priority... |
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Post on Craigslist - thank me later
Free Self service Iguanas ! Catch em you keep em. Iguanas por Gratis. Debe que venir y agorrar, Sin Limites ! |
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Absolutely. I’ve never eaten an iguana but that’s why BBQ sauce was invented. It makes anything taste good. I thought iguanas were a varmint in FL with year round, no limit.
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If it gets bad enough, which will be easer to catch and which will produce more food?
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Have any teenagers? Shittt It would be fun to go in the yards and blast some iguanas.
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Quoted: Followed by the explosion in the gator population from the abundance of free food. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Shoot them, kill them, leave them in the lake for the gators. Problem solved. Followed by the explosion in the gator population from the abundance of free food. The import pythons for the gators, and for the pythons, a breed of gorilla that thrives on snake meat. |
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Quoted: Have any teenagers? Shittt It would be fun to go in the yards and blast some iguanas. View Quote I lived for things like that when I was a kid. Guy had a barn with a pigeon problem. We cleared them out. It was a free for all. 2 teens with pellet guns and birds dropping. The first day we had a trash bag full. |
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.22lr or 22wmr or 17hmr with a scope, I would have a blast shooting them out of the tree. They have tagoo lizards too, more shooting fun. Look at it like shooting rats, nobody could feel bad about that.
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You south Florida guys have Nile Monitor lizards as well right? can you shoot those at will too?
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Quoted: that sounds like fun & good practice when out walking the dogs... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Sure. Draw pistol, aim for head, squeeze trigger. that sounds like fun & good practice when out walking the dogs... I was just having a little fun. In all seriousness, I don't know if it's legal to kill the Monitor Lizards. Is it legal to kill them? Anyone know? |
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EATING IGUANA - Catching and Cooking Invasive Green Iguanas in Florida |
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Quoted: Iguanas are vegetarians. They won’t be eating any eggs. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Yup or kiss all your birds goodbye cause they'll eat every egg there Iguanas are vegetarians. They won’t be eating any eggs. Not all are vegetarian Red and back eat meat |
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They are all over the Keys, and some of those suckers are big. When you are driving down the Keys, especially in the afternoon, you will see them stretched out on the side of the road, sunning themselves. Always trying to get my husband to veer of the roadway and just run them over, but, no, we never do what I want, lol. When it gets too cold for them, they drop out of the trees. That is the time to pick them up, throw them in a sack, and stick them in your bait freezer until they are totally dead.
Had one in the yard one time and that is the only usurper that my chi/weenie/beagle Buddy did not kill. He wanted it bad but just did not know how to attack it and was he ever baying. He had it cornered. |
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