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Good for making the place a bit more safe
I am glad we do not have them in Commyfornia or at my place in Arizona Everything bad around here that slithers other than Politicians has a Rattle on it. And if I ever see a rattle it will be no more if I have my say.
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Ranchboss killed a rattler here in the yard about this time last year. It got stirred up by the D-5 Cat cleared cedar behind the house.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Killed quite a few of them, I pondered which smelled better White Shoulders perfume or a big fat cottonmouth, it's a toss-up, same same 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Never sawed one, from what I understand they have a little bit of an attitude.
Nice Rootin' Tootin' and Shootin' KW! Thanks Paul. All water snakes are ill tempered. Especially after you bust one in the noggin with a rock bigger than a Dhanis firebrick!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 No doubt, Bob. I used to fish a couple of small local lakes quite a bit as a teenager, in one of those canvas covered inter tube rigs that you sit in and propelled yourself with scuba flippers. Damn lake was full of those big ole nasty black water snakes that would make a rattle snake look puny. I had one of those 10’ “dabbling” rods that you’d ease up to the cattails and drop a jig / pork rind combo right in the middle of the thick patch with, and sometimes yank out huge bass with. Felt something brush my leg one day and looked down, and one of those big bastards stuck his head up inside the circle of the tube, between me and the tube. I’m sure I probably screamed like a little girl, as snakes are about the only damn thing I’m deathly afraid of. Buddy I was fishing with said it looked like me and that damn inter tube were walking on water. 😬 He laughed so hard he was crying. Went to the LGS a few days later and had Mom purchase me on of those Mini Revolvers in .22 LR and a couple of boxes of CCI snake shot. The canvas tube cover had a little zipper pocket on top for keeping your keys or tackle and stuff, so I attached a string to the zipper pull and tied it around the grips of the mini revolver, so I wouldn’t drop it in the water. Don’t recall how many snakes I killed with it, but they’d usually go under and never resurface. Luckily, I never did shoot myself in the foot with that thing. 🤪 And, of course, those black or brown ? ?? water snakes aren’t venomous, but they do have a damn schitty attitude. Gave up on “Tube Fishing” as soon as I could afford a decent little boat and motor. 🤠
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Ok. You ain’t gonna believe this. I just sent back down to take a picture of where all this occurred. And snapped this photo! If you look toward the bottom below the water you can see two snakes! On moc is eating one of the mocs I shot this morning! I enlarged the pic! Anyway it died too!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Sounds like a breeding ball in the making.
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May we assume it was his last meal?
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Those things try to get in the boat with you. The edge of a boat paddle over the head deters them. It’s the ones I don’t see that worry me.
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Texas...snakes, Jeebus I had forgotten. Our Engineer unit got sent to Ft Hood back in the day, to make roads, whoopty doos, revetments and stuff for the armor guys. Of course engineers never get to sleep under a roof, hell no, we gotta camp out. Ft Hood sent out a senior NCO to give us the welcome wagon speech and show us where to laager up. He emphasized snakes were a problem in the area. Mutiny, insurrection, come nightfall, the leadership shouting, cursing, threatening article 15's...imagine 400 engineers sleeping in the beds of dump trucks, low boys, between the bows of the canvas tops. I don't know if any snakes were seen, it all died down eventually, the officers pointedly ignoring the empty pup tents.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Snakes huh??? For a minute there I thought you and uncle Red had spotted a one eyed werewolf😁
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I forgot to post this close up of the aftermath of the meal.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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My least favorite snake. I have caught many rattlesnakes by hand but never a Moccasin. I have let many rattlesnakes go on about their business but never a Moccasin.
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Dang you found the den. Good shooting.
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Maybe it's the camera... they don't look like cottonmouths to me.
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I forgot to post this close up of the aftermath of the meal. Helluva belch! 😊
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Maybe it's the camera... they don't look like cottonmouths to me. They are. Compare the head color pattern of this one to the pic right above.
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Marbled belly and fangs are giveaway. All waters snakes I know of have a yellow or solid color belly here.
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
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Maybe it's the camera... they don't look like cottonmouths to me. They are. Compare the head color pattern of this one to the pic right above. Yep. I know that snout shape. Big pit viper.
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Marbled belly and fangs are giveaway. All waters snakes I know of have a yellow or solid color belly here. Yep. Slit of a pupil.
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
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Marbled belly and fangs are giveaway. All waters snakes I know of have a yellow or solid color belly here. Yep. Slit of a pupil. 👍👍👍
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