Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Africa Got home to a surprize today

With two young kids around any rattlesnake near the house gets killed. Usually with my 20 gauge, but I used my little .32acp a few weeks ago. We see more bull snakes than anything else and they are left alone. Rattlesnakes are given no quarter.

good plan on the bullsnakes....you have snakes around cause you have rodents around.....best way to keep rattlesnakes away is to have bullsnakes cause they are more efficient mousers than the rattlers.....generally around here where i find lots of bullsnakes i dont find many rattlers....

they were in a pissy mood...

12 foot black mamba cruising at 10 mph with his head three feet off the ground.

Think all my Africa dreams just died.

That is certainly true. I have four JRTs here in Japan, according to the breeder papers originally from Australian descent. They particularly go crazy at night when the wild pigs (inoshishi) come through the neighborhood from the mountain forest preserve a few blocks away. Since our yard is fenced, they are kept out of trouble, though I've seen them climb the fence when they wanted.

My son and I have been out walking the leashed dogs when a pig passed by on the street within ten feet of us. All four dogs gave it their strict attention but in that case did not bark. They were MUCH smaller than the pig and the close proximity perhaps made that clear to them. Or maybe being on leashes kept them under control.

We seem to have two main kinds of snakes in Japan, at least in the Kansai area, the mamushi, which is a smallish, thick poisonous viper, and the harmless rat snake. I've never encountered a mamushi, but we have seen a few rat snakes somewhat longer than a meter around the house since there is much forest here.
They do no harm and so we discourage the dogs from messing with them.

Thanks AB. These Parsons Russel Terriers are great dogs and they have quite an ability to track wounded animals. We have a GSP as well and he do not tend to mess with snakes like the Parsons terrier.

Pieter

I have no mercy for venomous snakes around my dwellings. Never want to risk a bite to family, pets, or livestock. "Off with their heads"! Part of taming the land. I'll hatch a few owls to eat the mice.

Bare feet, poisonous snakes. JFHC, that gives me the willies.

its a cobra, its gonna bite you bout knee or thigh height anyway

Yeah, but it's that thick, musculular spasm right under your bare foot, as you realize - uh, oh, I've just stepped on a bloody cobra - that makes me a little queasy.

m77,



Upon what do you base this statement?

I appreciate places where people have not messed with nature. Snakes forms part of the ecological system and they are there for some reason. I think everything around us in our hunting environment should be protected in some way or another, as it forms part of the experience. Thousands of snakes burns to death annually in South-Africa in uncontrolled fires set by humans, by killing more of them intentionally cannot be a good thing. I do understand that in todays world we need to manage wildlife for animals to survive but we have to do it with care and only hunt/remove the right of amount of animals as even in todays world we see that some species becomes extinct.

Pieter

m77,

Sadly, animals become extinct every year. In your eloquent paragraph you didn't answer the question.

Ringman. Maybe my initial words was not chosen correctly. Somehow they made sense when I posted it I just feel if animals/reptiles have settled somewhere in an untouched environment we should treat it with care, even though we are hunters we should still look after the whole 'system' . Sorry for the confusion as I should have put it differently when I first posted the words.

We are lucky enough to have such a place and we try to look after it as best as we can.

Pieter

The best snake is a dead snake. Especially the venomous ones.

Amen, brother Bill!

Amen X2!

Amen #3!

anything around my house endangers my family is dead. No questions asked. Thats the way I feel it should be.

Good job.

Kinda cool looking snake though.

I'd have not creamated him though, I"d have let him out for nature to take its course, could have fed some other critters in its death.

Jeff