I like the idea of the .38 shot. Susan has a .38 she keeps in her purse and a .357 by the bed. We have one old dog that is scared to death of gunshots. We would have to leave him in the house.
James
JaRo, post: 382470, member: 292 wrote: I had gone to bed early Friday night. She went out looking for snakes in the area she had seen one the night before and got one pinned down with the shovel. She left the shovel stuck in the ground holding the snake by the tail and turned around to get another shovel and there was another snake between her and the second shovel.
She has about 10 shovels scattered around three acres and she knows where every one of them is. I offered to get her some rat shot for her 22 but she declined. She did have boot on.
James
That's funny! Never liked a shovel for snake killin. A k-blade is my weapon of choice.
[USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER] , don't watch this video. Copperheads give me the willies, so I could barely make it thru. I have a buddy who is from Florida and has been surveying for almost 20 years and he has told me lots of stories of chest deep swamps, swimming with alligator's and picking up moccasins to move them out of the way or scare the greenhorn. He moved up here about 4 years ago and started helping me on the weekends and still does some. He came into the office yesterday evening and said look at this video I just took. [USER=379]@FL/GA PLS.[/USER] You guys from Florida are crazy.
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Adam, post: 391268, member: 8900 wrote: picking up moccasins to move them out of the way
I'd like to see that! Most of those damn moccasins I've stumbled across start chasing you as soon as they see you. They have a very dim outlook of humans, or anything else for that matter.
@Cow please view Adams video right before bedtime. 😉
FL/GA PLS., post: 391276, member: 379 wrote: I'd like to see that! Most of those damn moccasins I've stumbled across start chasing you as soon as they see you. They have a very dim outlook of humans, or anything else for that matter.
@Cow please view Adams video right before bedtime. 😉
I had been calling BS on his stories until he showed me the video. He sayed you were better off swimming with them and that you never crawl up on the small little islands in the swamp. Thats where the dens were.
I suppose I could go back to bed......................................if that's what you mean. A nice early morning nap does sound pretty good at the moment.
What I want to know about that little movie is: Who's holding his beer?
Holy Cow, post: 391280, member: 50 wrote: Who's holding his beer?
It's on the porch, he took the snake up on the porch and had a beer with it. It's true, he showed me a few of the pic's. When he showed me the video I was astonished. No words for it. I have worked with horses for a long time, key to success is keeping a cool attitude they can sense what you feel inside. If it's fear they sense then they become fearful, when creatures become fearful they protect themselves. I haven't ever seen that play out with a copperhead until yesterday. I have an instinctual reaction of jump and run when I see one.
Years ago I raised my boys out in the deep woods. There were few houses around, but the few that were there all had kids also. In lieu of no adults around at times, it became a regime for all the kids in those 2 square miles (6 of them) to get off the school bus at one neighbor's house where Suzanne, the oldest of the lot (13) lived. Suzanne took her duties seriously and watched over all the kids until time to let them fly back to their respective coops.
She let me know one afternoon she had all the kids stay indoors because of a snake sighting. She had gone outside alone, found and killed the snake but kept the kids indoors anyway in case there were more. I asked her what kind of snake it was. She turned and walked to the corner of a shed and produced a shovel with about 3 cups of roughly chopped snake hamburger sitting on the blade. "I don't know, what kind does it look like?" was her reply.
It was definitely a copperhead, but it had long been dispatched (with anger). I had to laugh. I also realized that women take snake hunting a helluva lot more serious than men. That poor snake had met a horrible death at the hands of a scared 13 year old girl. It was a mess.
Adam, post: 391268, member: 8900 wrote: [USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER] , don't watch this video. Copperheads give me the willies, so I could barely make it thru. I have a buddy who is from Florida and has been surveying for almost 20 years and he has told me lots of stories of chest deep swamps, swimming with alligator's and picking up moccasins to move them out of the way or scare the greenhorn. He moved up here about 4 years ago and started helping me on the weekends and still does some. He came into the office yesterday evening and said look at this video I just took. [USER=379]@FL/GA PLS.[/USER] You guys from Florida are crazy.
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A little early in the morning for snake porn.
OK I'll be the first to say it. - That guy is not the brightest bulb in the box and isn't setting a very good example for his kid.
I can't find it, but there were two videos on You-Tube a couple years ago.
First video - A guy from California picked up a rattle snake along the road and spent the day taking videos of him holding the snake - loose allowing it to slither up and down his arm. The guy was all confident telling the viewers how docile and harmless rattlesnakes were. Amazing that the snake appeared so calm being handled.
Second video - Second day he gets bitten by the rattle snake. $176,000 later, he was released from the hospital. He is there telling people to never handle wild rattlesnakes, that they can turn on you in an instant.
Who do you suppose pays for that huge hospital bill? Not the ding-a-ling picking up venomous snakes.
I told him he was crazy, but I used a few other choice words. He's really a sharp field hand, probably the best help I have ever had, but you have to keep an eye on him. Free spirit I guess, but he's the kind you want with you if you get in a bind.
$150,000
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@HolyCow
Driving a skid steer while listening to TAYLOR SWIFT???????
That's called justifiable homicide in Fl. 😉
"Don't play with snakes" 😎
A wild critter has a calm mode until it has a hungry mode and then it eats whatever is convenient.
Snakes are charmers and will hypnotize their victims into relaxation so they can be caught and swallowed with ease.
Snakes are ok when they are outside my reach and outside their striking range, beyond that, it is snake killing time.........
Nevermind.
I reported a couple months back about a worker for our rural water district getting bit by a rattlesnake while attempting to read a water meter. Our insurance paid out a tad over $400,000. Kick that number around in your mind for awhile and figure out how you would pay such a bill out of your own pocket.
Holy Cow, post: 391372, member: 50 wrote: I reported a couple months back about a worker for our rural water district getting bit by a rattlesnake while attempting to read a water meter. Our insurance paid out a tad over $400,000. Kick that number around in your mind for awhile and figure out how you would pay such a bill out of your own pocket.
At least that was an accident.
People getting bit because they picked up a snake for kicks don't pay their own $400,000 bills - we do.
Adam, post: 391268, member: 8900 wrote: [USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER] , don't watch this video. Copperheads give me the willies, so I could barely make it thru. I have a buddy who is from Florida and has been surveying for almost 20 years and he has told me lots of stories of chest deep swamps, swimming with alligator's and picking up moccasins to move them out of the way or scare the greenhorn. He moved up here about 4 years ago and started helping me on the weekends and still does some. He came into the office yesterday evening and said look at this video I just took. [USER=379]@FL/GA PLS.[/USER] You guys from Florida are crazy.
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One time I pulled the truck up and parked in a sage grass field. The instrument man opened his door and started to step out, when suddenly his body defied gravity and came back into the truck, slamming the door behind him. I asked what was wrong and he said there were two copperheads coiled up outside his door. I had to walk around the truck with the brush hook and take care of the situation before he would even consider getting out.
The first time I levitated was in 1974 about half mile below the dam of Lake O' The Pines and 100å±ft from the river bank.
Walking thru no more than 1ft of water among huge oak trees I stepped on what I thought was a limb and suddenly it flapped and hit both sides of my leg.
When I landed the snake was at the river and the two with me were 50ft farther away and I can't remember making a splash.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it...............:clink:
