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Some of them have really hard shells and just a quick wack won't be enough to crush em.
...Of course I always take that into account when I was going to smack one with a shoe and always go that extra bit to make sure it's dead on the first shot. Unfortunatly I usually end up breaking or damaging whatever surface it was on.