Griz44
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Good thing you are faster than the tractor then.
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Good thing you are faster than the tractor then.
Okiecruffler
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Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are.
And FWIW, I'm far from a "city folk". I've been handling rattlers and copperheads, and worse for more than 20 years. I have yet to run into a situation where one had to be killed.
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I have a like new Gamo Viper Express Air Shotgun, .22 cal smoothbore, outstanding like new condition, with 25 rounds of 9 shot ammo, for sell, shipped to your door for $125. These are $220 plus shipping new here:
http://www.pyramydair.com/p/gamo-viper-break-barrel-shotgun.shtml
My wife called me one day - she had come home and found a great big snake in some wisteria on the side of a tree 3 ft. from where she parks the car. She wanted to kill it.
So I ask her for a description of the snake and turns out to be a rat snake - pretty common around here - and so I tell her if she really wanted to kill it to get a shovel and smack it, and she says she doesn't want to get so close to it.... so I suggest the BB gun - a pump up daisy powerline pellet gun filled with BBs.
She ended up shooting the thing about 50 times and it still wasn't dead and in the end she got my dog out of the pen to kill it, but my dog could care less about reptiles - only chases things with fur... and she ended up finishing it off with a fungo bat.
I was on the phone for about 30 minutes during this episode.
Get something more powerful.
rcmodel
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Rattlesnakes in the cow barn, rattlesnakes sticking out of hay bales while you are loading a trailer behind the bailer, rattlesnakes on the back porch step at dawn.
Snakebit dogs, cats, and cow udders.
Our neighbor got out of bed one morning and got bit on the back of his leg. How the damn snake got in the house is anyones guess!
My dad got bit on the hand while cleaning balled-up wheat straw out of a three-bottom plow.
Where I grew up, you killed them on sight, anywhere you saw one.
rcmodel
Rattlesnakes in the cow barn, rattlesnakes sticking out of hay bales while you are loading a trailer behind the bailer, rattlesnakes on the back porch step at dawn.
Snakebit dogs, cats, and cow udders.
Our neighbor got out of bed one morning and got bit on the back of his leg. How the damn snake got in the house is anyones guess!
My dad got bit on the hand while cleaning balled-up wheat straw out of a three-bottom plow.
Where I grew up, you killed them on sight, anywhere you saw one.
rcmodel
41magsnub
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I only went rattle snake hunting once as a kid, my buddies all had .22's of various flavors. I didn't feel like messing around so I brought my 20ga with whatever shells I had bought for upland game that year. It was always a 1 shot pretty mangled snake kill.
When I see them in the wild anymore it has always been in their territory away from a trail so I let them be.
When I see them in the wild anymore it has always been in their territory away from a trail so I let them be.
dagger dog
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I think the snakes were here first that kind of gives them the right of way. After all we are taking over their territory.
Yeah, there are times when you have no other alternatives than to protect yourself but honestly they are few and far between.
I have yet to see a snake large enough to eat me, but of course I'm not that well traveled. In most encounters a switch or as previously stated a hoe is enough weapon to defend yourself. But if seriously threatened by spitting cobras or the ever present resident bushmaster a revolver in .38 or .44 caliber loaded with shot capsules should be enough weapon to protect oneself against such threats.
Yeah, there are times when you have no other alternatives than to protect yourself but honestly they are few and far between.
I have yet to see a snake large enough to eat me, but of course I'm not that well traveled. In most encounters a switch or as previously stated a hoe is enough weapon to defend yourself. But if seriously threatened by spitting cobras or the ever present resident bushmaster a revolver in .38 or .44 caliber loaded with shot capsules should be enough weapon to protect oneself against such threats.
I too have lived all my life in copperhead, cottonmouth and rattler country. Never had a situation, nor can I imagine one short of a sci-fi movie, where I had to kill one.
Most snake bites happen because the person wasn't paying attention and stepped on (or nearly) the snake or was stupid enough to try and handle it. They will try to escape if they can, if they sit still they are either afraid you will eat them if hey don't keep an eye on you, or too cold to move.
Keep junk and brush piles away from the house, keep rodents, frogs etc away from the house and keep your eyes open. Anyone hiking on a trail should know enough to watch their step.
Most snake bites happen because the person wasn't paying attention and stepped on (or nearly) the snake or was stupid enough to try and handle it. They will try to escape if they can, if they sit still they are either afraid you will eat them if hey don't keep an eye on you, or too cold to move.
Keep junk and brush piles away from the house, keep rodents, frogs etc away from the house and keep your eyes open. Anyone hiking on a trail should know enough to watch their step.
45B@cav
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Well I'm not city folk but I grew up in La. in a subdivision. We also have a 150 acre hunting lease 45 min north of the house. We had a canal at the end of the street filled with Cotton mouth. The nieghbor hood used to pay us to kill the things. Weapon of choice a good old .410 but I took a few with a Benjermin pump pellet gun. I don't mess with them if they don't mess with me on the lease.
I have small children around so if the snake is poisonous and is around the house it will die. Out in the woods is a different story, I leave it alone if it leaves me alone. Shotgun or .38 with shotshells works best.
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I tend to leave snakes alone around the house....unless they are poisonous. We have dogs and I won't take a chance with them. This year have had to kill one cottonmouth and one coral snake. Out in the woods I just walk around them.
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