[Hot Tabasco]

the air rifles required several shots for a kill subjecting many iguanas to lingering deaths.

Not from the videos I've been watching. Check out videos by "Iguana Man" and "Iguana Solutions".

I love those PCP air rifles too.

Watching the iguana hunts, the numbers of lizards are incredible. It's no wonder tho since a single female will lay between 30 and 70 eggs and there are no natural predators that I know of.....

[DUMBGRUNT]

—” It’s no wonder tho since a single female will lay between 30 and 70 eggs and there are no natural predators that I know of.....”

What is the enemy of an iguana?
Natural Enemies

Raccoons, fish, crows, vultures, feral pigs, and other predators dig up iguana nests and eat the eggs. Raccoons, snakes, hawks, owls, egrets, herons, cats, and dogs kill the majority of hatchling and juvenile iguanas.
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN528

Here in DuPage County, many raccoons have moved from Chiraq, now I know why there are no iguanas .

[ptsal]

The weapons mentioned:
Their weapons consisted of a Gamo .177-caliber air rifle that fired lead pellets 1,400 feet per second and an Umarex Gauntlet .25-caliber air rifle that fired at 1,200 feet per second.

Gamo Urban - https://gamousa.com/product/urban-pcp-22-caliber-rifle/

https://www.umarexusa.com/ux-gauntlet-25-black