well we have a little hunting/airgun shooting club and when one of us find something or somewhere to shoot or hunt we tell the others. well the story that there was this 50+ apt by the bay and they were having problems with iguanas. i had fish there and had seen theses but i thought they were pets or something. well they had been eating flowers and there plants and i had hear about this so i ask if me and my friends could take care of it. i have never hunted hunted iguanas but i was curious as to how effective my 2200 would be. Iguanas are reptiles and have a small brains. well we got there at 8:00am and as i looked around i was thinking " there some big iguanas". well when we looked at one sunning it's self and it was not a iguana, but a Nile monitor, a bad -tempered lizard that will tail lash, bite, and rake you with it's claws. they can't be considered pets by any means.they look hard to kill. with a small brain located in a peculiar place where the head and body meet. the skull of the iguana is very soft but the skin is very tough. there is no neck on them so you really have to know there anatomy to be able to kill them properly. we found out how to kill them after we kill the first one and the doc opened it up so we could see were everything is. as most of you know my crosman 2200 is a .22 that shoots at 600fps with crosman pointeds. this gun has killed many coons,nutria,beavers, and Muscovy duck at 20 yards or less so i know my gun could kill them. there were 6 of us carrying guns of assorted prices and powers. I had my 2200 and 766, DOC had his Kodiak in 25cal. and a rws 350 in .22, tom had his talon in .22 and a gamo varmint hunter, the rest had a Daisy 1000x, crosman 1077,2250,CB9, gamo silver shadow, stingray carbine and a patriot. the fist iguanas was taken with the varmint hunter and needed 4 shots to put it down. they were not placed with pin-point accuracy and the pellets were going thought the animal but not killing it. then came the Diana needed 2 and the same thing with the talon the samething happen, good penetration but not good accuracy. when my turn came my turn came i found one in the top branches of a large tree looking down on us. only the head could be seen at about 30 yards up in the tree. my 2200 is very good at 30 yards and i could hit a dime at 30 yards off hand with crosman pointeds. when the 14.3gr pellet hit the brain he cramped up and hung in there. after a few tense moments the muscles relax and he fell to the ground. the Doc kill one that was running with his 25cal. kodiak with a crow mag to the eye kill it with one shot. after we kill some more we learned some things. 22s and up are best, you have to hit them with pin-point accuracy, and they can run very fast. Next we hunted by the water were we had saw the Nile monitors at. these thing are big and i killed one that was 5 feet long but we saw some that were going on 7. they also will fight even after they look dead. someone hit one with his CB9 and it looked dead but when he pick it up it both clawed and bite him. after we killed 5 they stayed far away from us. If you hunt monitors shoot them 2-3 times to make sure there good and dead and the 766 and other low power .177 are useless on them( my pellets were both stoped and flated out and the thing jump but was unhurt) we killed 30 iguanas but recovered 20. we lay out the kills and both the owner and the old people were happy to see them go.
