Open carry / firearm handy

[ch1ch2]

Got Snakes???


No worry...

There I was with some folks from work that had moved down from up North somewhere, we are watching the Dallas Cowboys play on a Sun afternoon when I snake come out from under the couch and heads across the floor. I lean over in the magazine drawer and grab my pistol, take aim and get a nice head shot on a Cottonmouth. My 2 friends from work are drop jawed and stunned, she is pale and his eyes are bigger than saucers. He says are you gonna pick up the snake? Not now, I will at half time! She jumps up and says she is getting the **** outta here and he says YES! I said hang on, I think we got a scoring drive...they were gone when I went to look for them.

Shot a rattler coiled up in the corner of the kitchen one time.

Along fence lines you will find small narrow paths, bout 4 - 6 in wide and then there will be an opening and it goes thru. These are small animals, field mice, moles etc. Along these paths are where snakes coil up and find a meal. In the late spring I would drive the tractor and get off and walk the fence tighting up barbed wire, checking for lose posts etc. that ground is FULL of snakes. Rest of the year I would ride my horse.

You got to keep the brush from around the edges of he river or lake or stock pond. Livestock will go down and the young will often get bit in the head and sometimes die, keeping it clean and cleared is important and getting down there and mowing will flush those snakes, if you get off the tractor better be prepared.

Guns: Better to have and not need, than to need and not have!

When seconds count, law enforcement is only minutes away.

Where is 17 Oaks Texas?
Send me a PM.
I would like to go snake hunting.

 

[Oldpath05]

Don't open carry on the tractor here in NJ (although you can, confined to your own property) because one, I'm in a State that hates guns and gun owners, and will likely be branded as a dangerous crazy if neighbors see it. Two, its a pain in the butt when working on a tractor.
Three, I can't hardly anything with either of my handguns. I once shot six times at a copperhead from about 12 feet away and never hit it once. I'm a lot better with the pointy end of a shovel I keep mounted to the tractor.
On the other hand I do keep a wingmaster by the back door. After thousands of clay pidgeons and probably hundreds of ducks, I seldom miss a target.

If not a good shot like Clint Eastwood, one solution is 45 Colt with shot shells in a 45 Colt revolver, you'll hit a snake on the run with them.

 

[ch1ch2]

If not a good shot like Clint Eastwood, one solution is 45 Colt with shot shells in a 45 Colt revolver, you'll hit a snake on the run with them.

I was not thinking of shooting them.
I was planning on catching them. (rattlesnakes).
I do shoot cottonmouths and copperheads.

 

[MoArk Willy]

I tried to follow the entire thread and didn't see this suggestion.
It's possible that an ankle holster around the ROPS would work for many. They have retention straps which would keep the gun in place.
A handkerchief or cloth over the gun would keep it clean.
And I carry everyday and hope I never have to use it. But it's my right to do so.
Many of the anti-gun people will never carry and that's fine by me.
But I look at it as something that may never be needed but still should be there in the off chance it IS needed.
I also have an emergency brake, a fire extinguisher, a first aid kit and a plunger. I really hope I don't need those either.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I saw a guy walk into a gas station I was at today, he had a stainless revolver "open carry" and no one even gave him a second look....as it should be.

SR

 

[17 Oaks]

I saw a guy walk into a gas station I was at today, he had a stainless revolver "open carry" and no one even gave him a second look....as it should be.

SR

Even when Texas was not open carry (today they are) we open carried often, but then where I lived you knew the Sheriff and just about everyone else and no one gave it a second thought, but rural living is one thing, big city another.

Anyone ever see that study some years back on shootings and murder by guns? The more laws there are against it in the city, the more liberal the city, the crime rate climbs out the roof, the more conservative and rural the safer it is.

 

[Oldpath05]

I saw a guy walk into a gas station I was at today, he had a stainless revolver "open carry" and no one even gave him a second look....as it should be.

SR

I would've gave a second look, third and fourth, I'd say NICE revolver can you show it to me maybe let me try a couple rounds...........

 

[YanmarFever]

That's impossible.

Most liberals have to control your life along with your rights..

A liberal is really a conservative that hasn't been mugged yet.

Just sayin.

 

[Fastball]

That's impossible.

Most liberals have to control your life along with your rights..

Just sayin.

Why are you getting insulting now? I’m as liberal as they come - but I also agree that everybody’s got the right to protect themselves and their property. The whole point is, at what point is enough enough?
Wide-sweeping generalizations like that - which probably go over real good down at the feed store - well, c like that make liberals want to punch someone in the mouth.

 

[fried1765]

Why are you getting insulting now? I’m as liberal as they come - but I also agree that everybody’s got the right to protect themselves and their property. The whole point is, at what point is enough enough?
Wide-sweeping generalizations like that - which probably go over real good down at the feed store - well, c like that make liberals want to punch someone in the mouth.

From my perception, a Canadian liberal is quite different from our RABID liberals in the USA