Snake Medicine

[nikdfish]

With the warmer weather, we've started seeing some of our less favorite woods denizens moving around, ticks & snakes. Last night I made up a batch of snake medicine (ticks get chemical warfare...). 50 rounds of Speer .38 caliber shot capsules filled with #8 or #9 shot over 3.8 grains of Bullseye. The #8 shot came from some recycled corroded 12 gauge loads found in an outbuilding we cleaned out recently. Nick

 

[LJH]

A sure cure!

 

[MacLawn]

Got sick snakes, eh? That'll cures wha' ails 'em.

 

[/pine]

all snakes are beneficial...even the venomous ones...better to be judicious and re-locate the dangerous ones than eliminate...

There is a balance in nature that humans are sometimes just incapable of comprehending...

 

[Code54]

all snakes are beneficial...even the venomous ones...better to be judicious and re-locate the dangerous ones than eliminate...

There is a balance in nature that humans are sometimes just incapable of comprehending...

Yep there is a balance - they can fertilize the woods when they decay. If it is poisonous it dies. See Im helping the trees and plants grow and it beats having one of my kids, pets, wife,etc getting bit

 

[mike46]

Yep there is a balance - they can fertilize the woods when they decay. If it is poisonous it dies. See Im helping the trees and plants grow and it beats having one of my kids, pets, wife,etc getting bit

I got a little recipe to keep them away: ground chillies (coffee grinder) mixed in canola oil spreded over the familiar resting spots, it works!:

 

[8N Ren]

What kind of distance do you get with those and what is the blue thing called?

 

[Professor Marvel]

I got a little recipe to keep them away: ground chillies (coffee grinder) mixed in canola oil spreded over the familiar resting spots, it works!:

Great recipe. You just need to add 12 ga buckshot to make it perfect.

 

[nikdfish]

The pattern spreads about an inch per foot of distance so anything over 10' or so would start getting iffy. The blue is the visible portion of a Speer shot capsule. They are two part: the capule is a tube with one end open that you fill with shot (roughly 109 grains worth) and is prescored on the closed end to help with consistant fracturing when fired; the cap that you snap in to seal the tube also acts as the wad for the load.

The capsule assembly extends a bit more then halfway down the brass when seated with maybe a third of the shot column visible. The .38 caliber variety comes 50 to the box, .44 & .45 come 25 to the box. The .38 box I bought from Midway was a bit less than $8.

Nick

 

[DieselnHooters]

I got a little recipe to keep them away: ground chillies (coffee grinder) mixed in canola oil spreded over the familiar resting spots, it works!:

I am 100s of miles south of you by the NY border and I have never seen any snake apart from those harmless/beneficial garter garden variety, you should start working on a recipe for those black flies and other flying nuisances up there in Lac St-Jean Mike lol