I didn't hunt it...it hunted me

[ex13F]

 

[NMEDGE]

I would blast the thing into next century. Then go in the house and change my underwear. I hate snakes!

 

[Old_Me]

I though you were going to say demoKKKrats and reDUMBlicans

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SH!!!!!!!!!!T...all this talk and pics of snakes.......i might be happy after all living up here...all i gots to worry about is, drive-by shootings, at least then, one can hear the "fart can muffler" and duck...!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Night Rider]

You need the right tool for the job

I grew up in Omaha and I lived in Colorado since 1992. I have seen four rattlesnakes ever in my life and one of them was dead when I saw it. ETA: As in someone else killed it and showed me the corpse.

One snake that I see a lot of is Great Plains Rat Snakes.

Apparently they eat rattlesnakes and maybe that's why I don't see very many rattlesnakes.

I Encourage GPRS wherever I see them.

 

[Mr.W.]

With a slither that large and dangerous, I believe I would have hit it hard and fast with 12 gauge bird shot. Then finish with the hoe, as needed!

 

[powerboatr]

They are craaazy fast !!!
We have em in E tx as well. Watched one take down a rat snake. Fast as lightening

yes fast enough to make you run into stuff trying to get away before you realize its a friend not food

 

[powerboatr]

Hoes are deadly...

thats my ex daughter in laws name HOE and i call my garden tool JESSICA

 

[Annihilator]

 

[Onewolf426]

Jesus, pretty good argument when people start talking about why you needed to shoot the bad guy more than once...
Why didnt you just shoot it in the leg?

Or the crotch?

 

[mikep]

About a month ago, this showed up at my back porch, getting heat signature's from my wife's cat.

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Biggest cottonmouth I've ever come across, and I've seen my share. This was a 5-foot, fat grand-daddy. As far as I was concerned, this was a home defense moment. I grabbed my HD gun, my 1911, went out on the porch. He was about 3 feet away. He started moving and I shot him twice in the body. Then I followed behind him as he moved and shot him two more times in the body. He came up the steps of the porch and down off the side into my wife's pepper plants.

I went inside, got my M1 Carbine--which I always keep loaded--came back out and waited for him to present his head. He did and one round did the job.

I wanted the carbine for the headshot because the barrel gave me a bit more distance from his business end.

Then, my dog got out, grabbed the dead snake by the tail and started whipping him around spewing nasty snake blood all over the porch and the sliding glass doors.

Some afternoon.

I wasn’t expecting the dog bit at the end.

 

[mikep]

Shotguns and garden hoes will get it done. But of course, even Hoes can be deadly themselves.

Hoes can certainly be deadly. This one time in college…

 

[mikep]

Or the crotch?

could have shot the tires out.

 

[HayesGreener]

This one got too close to the grandkids playhouse

 

[Shibadog]

I would have caught and relocated it. Seriously!

Me too-with a load of 6 shot-guaranteed to make a snake a good ‘un

 

[Shibadog]

thats my ex daughter in laws name HOE and i call my garden tool JESSICA

Sounds like MY exdaughter in law-right down to the name

 

[powerboatr]

Sounds like MY exdaughter in law-right down to the name

best part is its etched on the handle and every time my grand daughter is over and helps me in the yard... she laughs hysterically, ...its her mom hand me the jessica

 

[belladonna]

I Have big rattlers, pygmy rattlers, water mocasins, copperheads, and an occasional coral snake on my property. We have water everywhere. We have dogs, cats, and lots of grandkids. The key to venomous snake survival here is for them to keep their distance from the house. I keep a .410 Snake Charmer and a .410 Bond Derringer handy for snake duty. I on average kill one a year but more when there is a hurricane and flooding in lower areas.

This is why I live where the air hurts my face

 

[3L120]

You know the meat is OK to eat, and after skinning the snake, cleaning the skin and applying glycerine makes into a dandy hatband! Never had anything to do with cottonmouths or copperheads.

 

[TEXASforLIFE]

my wife and grandma was inside a vehicle watching me obliterate a rattlesnake.....................i scattered it in several pieces...................meanwhile my grandma was telling my wife, "you think it's dead ENOUGH" .

 

[Onewolf426]

my wife and grandma was inside a vehicle watching me obliterate a rattlesnake.....................i scattered it in several pieces...................meanwhile my grandma was telling my wife, "you think it's dead ENOUGH" .

How ever many times it takes.