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They will root your yard up where it looks like plow rows if you don't dispatch him. I have seen some let you walk right up on them and just look at you. Some won't let you get within 30 feet. They are dumb nasty creatures.
Oh, the yard is in that state constantly cause they roam all night. This is just the first one I've seen in daylight, but he's a persistent little buzzard. I have some CCI quiets, one of those from a semi auto pistol might not make too much noise.
 

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Did that once and he went in his hole. got my arrow but lost the broadhead by unscrewing it.
I've shot many from a tree stand, almost straight down and it pins them to the ground. One I was stalking for deer walking in a dry creek about 3' deep and I shot a Diller with an arrow straight through his side. It was pretty funny cause the arrow went half way through and he tried to run (I used a field tip) between 2 trees that were only a foot apart and the arrow stopped him in his tracks but he kept trying to run so I pulled a broadhead arrow and finished him off.
 
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Purpose built dilla killer. Too bad it was lost in a boating accident.

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I heard this story about a guy who lives inside the city limits and came home from a walk one day to find a diller digging in a flower bed in the front of his house, right along the foundation. Damn. Populated neighborhood. Easily visible from the street. Feller had this broomstick with a nail on the end of it that he had put together for picking up trash and stuff without bending over (lazy sort, you know). Well, he stabbed that critter and tried to drag him outta' that hole he had started. Them diller claws got more traction than that broomstick and nail. Well, he grabbed the shovel and started trying to out-dig that critter. Them little buggers are quite the quick diggers, dontcha' know. That wasn't workin' so he commenced to trying to cut that bugger in half with that shovel. Them shells are pretty stout. Back and forth ... nail, shovel, nail, shovel, nail, shovel. Well, he finally went in the house for a really short spell and, when he headed back out the front door, he told the wife 'keep the dog in the house and you didn't see or hear nothin'.' Some of them neighborhood kids musta' had some left over fireworks. Anyway, one a' them things went off and that diller came out a' the hole in the next shovel full a' dirt. Took a ride in the pickup to a spot he could dig all he wanted when he woke up. The End.


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Hunted quail around Beeville Tx a few years ago in the mesquite. Dillers were running everywhere. It's kinda sandy soil there. We saw one throwing dirt in a sandy berm trying to dig underground. Our guide told one of the guys to grab the tail and drag it out of the hole. Impossible to do because they turn those big claws into the tunnel and hold themselves there. A couple of the guys tried it and had no success.
The guide walked up, pulled on the tail and then pushed forward as hard as he could. Diller reversed his claws and he pulled him out easily.
 

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