Anyone gone Iguana hunting in Puerto Rico?

[Mark W]

don't need to go to PR, just out my back door, here on a canal in S. FLA. i have eliminated many. there are a real pest here

Probably 10 years ago we saw an osprey carrying a huge Iguana while we were fishing the Ocklawaha River in all the way up in Central Florida. We also visited The Keys one year during an unusual cold front. Iguanas were litterally falling out of the trees....,lol. We saw a bunch that were crawling onto the roads for warmth. They were getting splattered left and right.

Speaking of exotic invaders, how are the Peacock Bass populations in the canals now?

 

[Chocdawg]

They do it in florida on the canals. Blow gun darks rigged up like a bowfishing bow. I watched youtube videos the other day.

That video was off the hook fantastic! Who knew!

 

[MrMajestic]

Bludgeoning those reptiles with a Louisville Slugger would seem to be good for relieving stress. Just sayin'.

Gotta be right up there with drowning kittens...just sayin'

 

[Gman]

Gotta be right up there with drowning kittens...just sayin'

I'm not a cat person, but I wouldn't be able to drown any kitties. Give me a club, and I'll bash reptiles heads all day long.

 

[MrMajestic]

I'm not a cat person, but I wouldn't be able to drown any kitties. Give me a club, and I'll bash reptiles heads all day long.

Shooting them would be grand, prarie dogs w/o the fur. Clubbing is just a little too morbid for me..JMHO
I even give bugs a a chance at my aim with a Bug-A-Salt..
As the say in Japan, "same only different.."

 

[alinwa]

Shooting them would be grand, prarie dogs w/o the fur. Clubbing is just a little too morbid for me..JMHO
I even give bugs a a chance at my aim with a Bug-A-Salt..
As the say in Japan, "same only different.."

I gave 7 of my employees Bug-A-Salts at Christmas...... it's winter here and the only bugs we have are this rancid infestation of stinkbugs. I included a liddle note..... "Hey, this ain't no Nerf Gun, come summertime yer gonna' love it...."

So anyways, they all came back with stories;
-"my little sister in the butt"
-"my roommate in the side of the neck" (fight!)
-"my dog's nose" (crying and kissyface)
-"I tried it on my mom" (!!)

But the winner was...... "I found some de-icing salt like mini Rock Salt and it's like buckshot! Shatters stink bugs!" ....... except that an hour later, as the stink was building, his girlfriend came home from work...... his nose was basically numb?? Like she nearly passed away..

Just had to share another Bug-A-Salt story

And yeahh..... I can get into hunting perty much anything


but I couldn't club a worm



(Although I HAVE clubbed me some fur! )

((never a seal though))

 

[Monte F]

Getting rare to find fur these days! Most are hairless.


(Although I HAVE clubbed me some fur! )

((never a seal though))[/QUOTE]

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Last year they were all over the ground when they had a freeze in Miami area
Ball bats were used

I was in the keys for that. all over the news they kept saying "please leave them alone!! theyre not dead they just fell out of the trees!!" even the street roosters in key west had a coat on- got down to 50 if I remember right.

 

[jimmymac]

Last year they were all over the ground when they had a freeze in Miami area
Ball bats were used

I’d think a 9 iron would be much more appropriate, and I don’t even golf.

 

[bpd459]

Greetings,
I spent 18 months in Honduras, on Uncle Sam's dime, in the mid 80's. My (pre M-4) shorty M-16 and M-193 ammo was quite effective on both iguanas and armadillos. Oh so long ago, in a land far, far away!
John

 

[M14AMU]

No...but I've swatted bats with a tennis racket!!

 

[243Lapua]

Just don't bring the meat into the US. It's prohibited and Iguana is considered a protected species. Part of my Customs job is to give $1000.00 penalties. And trust me I like to give them. Even though it's considered a pest in parts of Florida. Have fun.

 

[steve123]

There's a guy named Bill on airgunwarrier forum that goes to PR to shoot FT matches and hunts those big lizards with PCP air rifles.

Ask around there in the FT forum I bet you'll get contact info.

 

[BR7.62]

Our tactic was to knock them our of the tree with slingshot and chase them with machete.
Only pic I could find (before I had a cell phone attached to my hip...)
Have fun!

 

[alinwa]

No...but I've swatted bats with a tennis racket!!

So me an my buddy Jerry both played tennis at the high school..... we're 14-15 or so..... and so of course when a bat got in the house we'd set it up to square off acros't the living room, trying to hit each other with the beast.

Until I DID...... I smacked one right into Jerry's throat and it slid down inside his shirt.

We both got the chibbers so bad we never played that game again. We still kil't a lot of bats but never again tried to get each other bit. My Dad's cousin got bit and the treatment was fairly horrible.

Prolly better than the alternative, escaping this mortal coil biting at a logchain, but still horrible.

 

[sporty]

I plan on hunting iguanas the end of this month. One of the locals I talked with said they call them “tree chicken” because, yes, they tast like chicken. I am still investigating the guides. Probably don’t need one but they have all the equipment to use and it’s inexpensive.

 

[IdahoCTD]

I'm going the 16th. Probably try Peacock bass and Tarpon fishing around that time too.

 

[IdahoCTD]

Doing it tomorrow am. I will post pictures.

 

[IdahoCTD]

It was a pretty fun day. My dad and I plus my 2 boys went. We shot for 4 hours and killed probably 100. We didn't retrieve nearly as many as we shot because some areas were just way too thick to get to them.

 

[IdahoCTD]