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Quoted: Remember a few winters ago seeing stories about gators poking their snouts up through the ice in ponds. Gators evolved in places where it gets cold and can adapt. Iguanas not so much I guess. What round for chilled iguana? Probably a .22 air rifle would do it pretty well. View Quote I used to use a cheap Gamo 17 pellet rifle I got on discount. If I move back I’m getting a 22 or 30 cal PCP |
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Quoted: Whew , at least you don’t bash them with a hammer ! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I behead em with a machete and toss them into the canal. Whew , at least you don’t bash them with a hammer ! I was thinking where's the shark dude when you need him. |
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I discovered the world of Pre charged pneumatic air guns thanks to Iguana's. Well, the video I found on you tube and then the falling down that rabbit hole that followed.
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Dead meat on the Sportsmans channel is hunting and cooking iguanas in Puerto Rico right now.
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Quoted: Eating plants you don't want them to eat? or the fruit and berries off your trees? also big incubators for staph. I saw a big one tear up a kid I went to school with once...we were throwing rocks at the iguana when it went apeshit jumped outta the tree onto the kids back... The screaming from all of us was epic... The kid got full rabies and antibiotic shots and a lot of stitches... Ironic as the kid's nickname was "Lucky"...Lucky Smith...poor kid was hurting for a long time... View Quote Rabies shots for a reptile bite? |
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I remember reading a story a few years ago about a group of Haitian guys who are picking up frozen iguanas all over the place in Miami. Turns out once they were in the car the iguanas all start waking up and driving the passengers out of the car, screaming like lunatics. Wish there was a video!
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Quoted: Mmmmm…. Roasted iguana View Quote Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio |
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TAMPA, Fla. — As many Floridians prepare for the freezing temperatures this weekend, Florida Fish and Wildlife sent out a reminder to not be alarmed by falling iguanas.
Although the falling lizards may be startling, the FWC asks residents to not bring the wild green iguanas into their home or their car to warm up. They can recover more quickly than you think and become defensive, using their long tails and sharp teeth & claws," the agency wrote on its Facebook. When it gets colder than 45 degrees, iguanas go into a sort of suspended animation mode and fall out of trees. The green guys who are considered an invasive species in Florida are still breathing with critical body functions still operating, but they look dead. All iguanas are not created equally though. The bigger ones can be a little more tolerable of the cold weather Zoo Miami Communications Director Ron Magill told CBS Miami. Iguanas can reach up to 5 feet in length and weigh up to 20 pounds. That's close to a medium-sized dog standing up. Imagine an iguana that large falling from a tree. The cold-stunned state iguanas enter protects them until the temperature warms back up over 50 degrees again. The reptilian is at risk when temperatures remain in the 40s and lower for periods over eight hours. The Associated Press contributed to this story. |
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Quoted: TAMPA, Fla. — As many Floridians prepare for the freezing temperatures this weekend, Florida Fish and Wildlife sent out a reminder to not be alarmed by falling iguanas. Although the falling lizards may be startling, the FWC asks residents to not bring the wild green iguanas into their home or their car to warm up. They can recover more quickly than you think and become defensive, using their long tails and sharp teeth & claws," the agency wrote on its Facebook. When it gets colder than 45 degrees, iguanas go into a sort of suspended animation mode and fall out of trees. The green guys who are considered an invasive species in Florida are still breathing with critical body functions still operating, but they look dead. All iguanas are not created equally though. The bigger ones can be a little more tolerable of the cold weather Zoo Miami Communications Director Ron Magill told CBS Miami. Iguanas can reach up to 5 feet in length and weigh up to 20 pounds. That's close to a medium-sized dog standing up. Imagine an iguana that large falling from a tree. The cold-stunned state iguanas enter protects them until the temperature warms back up over 50 degrees again. The reptilian is at risk when temperatures remain in the 40s and lower for periods over eight hours. The Associated Press contributed to this story. View Quote Is it sporting to kill a passed out iguana? Semi serious question |
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Quoted: I doubt I will move back...my body can't regulate temps very well anymore, heat is much worse than the cold....as I sit in my living room and freeze to death.... If I did though I would make sure to have this prepped in cooler weather.... https://3stepsolutions.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/assets/custom/003036/images/products/PNG-image-507BE35C9598-1.png?Random=8fbdb6ba-c988-4993-9379-483b98aa7072 View Quote I was hard until I saw the price.... I will go be poor elsewhere. |
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Mike Rowe did one of the dirty jobs episodes over them.
Mike Rowe Takes on Florida's Iguana Problem | Dirty Jobs |
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Quoted: Whew , at least you don’t bash them with a hammer ! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I behead em with a machete and toss them into the canal. Whew , at least you don’t bash them with a hammer ! Have you finished pre-emptively hunting and killing all the dogs in your neighborhood because they might eat yer chikkins or sheeps one day? |
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Quoted: Stone crab bait. View Quote One of the ones I shot went in the blue crab trap in the canal. Maybe I should have chopped it up first because after a week it still was just a blown up iguana piñata and wasn’t stinking yet. I threw it in to the mangroves and got some chicken necks instead. But, I’m willing to give it another try |
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No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
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Quoted: I cant really grow and food because of them. They eat everything I plant except Brazilian spinach. Main problem is they take over burrow owl holes. Those owl are great pest control. Specially when I am 4 miles from the Everglades View Quote I had no idea burrowing owls had such a large range. They were cool to watch when I was stationed at Davis Monthan AFB. |
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View Quote Winner! Winner! Tree chicken dinner! |
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Quoted: I had no idea burrowing owls had such a large range. They were cool to watch when I was stationed at Davis Monthan AFB. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I cant really grow and food because of them. They eat everything I plant except Brazilian spinach. Main problem is they take over burrow owl holes. Those owl are great pest control. Specially when I am 4 miles from the Everglades I had no idea burrowing owls had such a large range. They were cool to watch when I was stationed at Davis Monthan AFB. No kidding. We have them here and they're endangered. Its surprising to see so many of an endangered animal as we see here and to know they span the country |
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Hunting them seems like a fun kind of thing to do.
Can anyone tell me how they fare against a hunting type dog like a JRT or other medium sized breed? It says their bite is nasty but some of the smaller game dogs are pretty quick with the thrash and kill. |
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Quoted: Hunting them seems like a fun kind of thing to do. Can anyone tell me how they fare against a hunting type dog like a JRT or other medium sized breed? It says their bite is nasty but some of the smaller game dogs are pretty quick with the thrash and kill. View Quote They are pretty dang fast and quick to scoot if anything approaches them. They will go up a tree or jump in the water and swim submerged like a gator for a good distance. |
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Quoted: Eating plants you don't want them to eat? or the fruit and berries off your trees? also big incubators for staph. I saw a big one tear up a kid I went to school with once...we were throwing rocks at the iguana when it went apeshit jumped outta the tree onto the kids back... The screaming from all of us was epic... The kid got full rabies and antibiotic shots and a lot of stitches... Ironic as the kid's nickname was "Lucky"...Lucky Smith...poor kid was hurting for a long time... View Quote Can reptiles get rabies? |
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Quoted: Hunting them seems like a fun kind of thing to do. Can anyone tell me how they fare against a hunting type dog like a JRT or other medium sized breed? It says their bite is nasty but some of the smaller game dogs are pretty quick with the thrash and kill. View Quote My labrador cornered one and it tail whipped him. He never really went after them after that. |
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Quoted: They are pretty dang fast and quick to scoot if anything approaches them. They will go up a tree or jump in the water and swim submerged like a gator for a good distance. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Hunting them seems like a fun kind of thing to do. Can anyone tell me how they fare against a hunting type dog like a JRT or other medium sized breed? It says their bite is nasty but some of the smaller game dogs are pretty quick with the thrash and kill. They are pretty dang fast and quick to scoot if anything approaches them. They will go up a tree or jump in the water and swim submerged like a gator for a good distance. I’ve got dachshunds and I watched my dad shoot a squirrel once from a tree so my dog could finish it off. I’ve seen mine tie into squirrels unassisted and even raccoons and snakes. This completely sounds like fun! I’m kind of jealous I’m not getting to live this sort of life. |
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