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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you kill them? Club them over the head with a rock?[/quote]

Shoot them just behind the eye with a high power airgun, or harpoon them with a dart and then [b]beat them to death with a small club[/b]. The darts are for places where it’s not safe enough to shoot an airgun. [/quote]

Is this part necessary? It's one think to shoot a living being and have it die instantly, quite another to "beat it to death."[/quote]

There’s some places where we’re hunting where it just isn’t safe to use a high power airgun. If you miss, or get a through-and-through shot where it passes through the iguana and keeps going, the pellet can hit something you don’t want. Houses, windows, cars - people! Don’t want that under any circumstances! So you have to harpoon them instead, and then reel them in and dispatch them manually.

Believe me, I much prefer shooting them when possible. Yesterday I had one that my wife harpooned scratch the hell outta my left shin as I was moving in to club it. Bled all the way down in my sock! Thought I was gonna need butterfly stitches for a while until it finally scabbed over.

So sometimes the iguanas get a few licks in, too. It happens.  :lol: [/quote]

Former Floridian here who sort of follows the issues with invasive wildlife. I remember reading about the monkey colony near Orlando (who all apparently have syphllis?) and some monkeys in Dania Beach. Since you were scratched by the iguanas, is there risk of infection? Or is that mostly with gators?[/quote]

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