Snake vs 410 *beware PETA*

[Anonymous Poster]

Hey, true things yankee are different, however, I did growup in the US (Idaho and North Dakota) I was only in AUS for 8 years working in the bush. The one thing they have that we don't that I did not like other than the snakes you are talking about is the saltwater croc's, now them buggers ya gotta watch, 15-20 feet long and can go over 2000 lb. with BIG TEETH.

Happy to find these pages, looks like fun. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[cstocks]

<font color="blue">( although we do keep mentioning PETA & animal rights (they have the right to remain tender)</font>

Knucklehead, I do love your sense of humor! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

<font color="blue">( now i don't find snakes tasty )</font>

Soarkrebel, my nephew killed a rattle snake in Columbia co. last year and brought it to my uncle's house... seems he thought he would skin it and my uncle (88 yrs. young) would cook it for him. Uncle Charles snorted and snickered and said no snake would be cooked in his kitchen. To make a long story short, I cooked it and my nephew and I ate it... in Uncle Charle's kitchen! Tasted okay... kinda like chicken /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif but was tough an there was not a lot to it, even though it was about four ft. long. To be honest, I cooked it and ate it just so I could say I had eaten a snake before. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

To all, as far as killing snakes goes I don't kill 'em unless they are poisonous. The PETA mentality makes me gag so it has nothing to do with that. I just don't see the need to kill a snake just because it is a snake. All Copperheads Must Die and the same goes for Cottonmouths and Rattlers. Otherwise, Mr. No Shoulders goes his way and I go mine. (Just don't tell my wife if I let a snake of any form or fashion live to see the light of another day! She hates them all)

 

[soarkrebel]

Chris everything tastes like chicken! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Never ate snake but have had coon, tree rats ,and monkey once . i didnt know it was monkey none of did . and besides we were young GI's and intoxicated . so hunger took over.

Now when i was korea i learned that folks eat alot of things. the guy i rented from , a korean , ate his family dog. i noticed him missing for a couple of days . and asked and through universal sign language determined that the german shepard had been dinner. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

they would eat chicken eggs that were have way through the incubation period. nasty!
and back to the dog thing you could walk through the markets and see dogs all dressed out for sale if you knew where to go.

now a snake in korea wouldnt stand a chance.

but i don't plan to eat snake but i ain't been that hungry yet . if your hungry a snake may seem very appealing! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

And yep when it comes to folks in PETA or supporters of it i have nothing for them! they are a waste of good oxygen!
i would love to have a truckload of timber rattlers to dump in there homes! let them live with the animals!

 

[jinman]

Last weekend I was going to feed catfish in my lake about sundown. I have to drive across my pond dams to get to a little penninsula going out into the lake. As I drove by the first pond, I noticed a huge cotton mouth laying on a willow limb just above the water. I slowly backed up my pick-up and returned to the house to get my 12 ga. pump shotgun. When I returned, the moccasin was still there. My girlfriend handed me the shotgun and I just hung out the window of the pickup and shot the snake with #4 shot. The blast peeled the snake off the limb and he cartwheeled end-over-end about 10' into the water. I asked my girlfriend if she had seen it, and she said, "No! I had my fingers in my ears and was looking the other way." /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Oh well... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif She told me she was glad I got the snake since her boys (both grown) fish in my ponds and lake all the time. I see water snakes all the time, but the poisonous ones have a "target" painted on their head. I've always thought cotton mouths have a bad attitude anyhow. I killed one when I was a kid that was trying to get into my minnow bucket to eat my bait. ...now that really got me mad. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I killed one when I was a kid that was trying to get into my minnow bucket to eat my bait. ...now that really got me mad. )</font>

When I was 19, I took my two younger brothers (13 and 14) fishing with me to Lake Texoma. We had a 14' boat with a 40hp Evinrude and went and camped for the night on one of the islands and ran a trotline all night using pure beef blood for bait. Now when you use pure beef blood, you have to run the trotline about once an hour because when you get a fish on a hook, he'll frequently jar the bait off all the rest of the hooks. So that's what we were doing.

The sandy beach sloped very gradually into the water and the only place we found to tie our metal stringer was to a stump that was about 6 feet out into the water, although the water at that point wasn't a foot deep, so no problem, we were going barefoot anyway. The stump was probably 30 or 40 yards down the beach from our campfire and it was a dark moonless night.

The first time we ran the trotline, we had 3 small (but keeper sized) catfish, so we put them on the stringer, anchored it to the stump, waited an hour, and ran the trotline again. This time we had two more fish when we returned and beached the boat by the fire. So the 13 year old led the way with the flashlight and I followed with a fish in each hand. When he reached the edge of the water, he spun around and ran past me. I dropped both fish and grabbed the flashlight out of his hand as he went by me without slowing down. When I turned the light to see what had scared him, a big moccasin had the whole head of one of our fish in his mouth along with part of the stringer. I handed the flashlight to the 14 year old, told him to keep the light on the snake, and Ipicked up a dead stick or limb 6' to 8' feet long and pinned the middle of the snake to the stump. About that time, the 13 year old brother came running past me right to the snake. He had a hunting knife in one hand and a little stick, maybe a foot long, in the other hand and was hitting and slashing at the snake with me screaming and yelling at him to get away from it. He killed it.

When we returned to the campfire, I tried to explain to him how long it would have taken by boat to get back to the launching ramp, and then drive him to the nearest hospital; at least a couple of hours or more. His only response, "Well, that snake made me mad and I had to go get my knife."

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( a big moccasin had the whole head of one of our fish in his mouth along with part of the stringer )</font>

I saw a moccasin with a fish in it's mouth once and it almost scared me to death. I couldn't see it too well and I thought the fish was part of the snake's head. With a head that big, I figured he must be 10' and for a moment I didn't know whether to look closer or get the "heck" out of there. Then my 83 year old father came over with a big stick in his hand and with one whack he killed that snake stone dead. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I told him I was going to get a hoe and he informed me that if I'd wasted enough time to get a hoe, the snake would have been gone. ... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif ...and that's how I was humiliated by a snake with a fish in it's mouth. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[knucklehead]

Chris - Hi! Where you been? You better not wear your snakeskin boots (don't all you guys have snakeskin boots?) when you go to So Ark - SoArkReb might just be stompin' all over your little pigglies.

I hereby nominate Jim for the coolest phrase of the weekend:<font color="blue">"My girlfriend handed me the shotgun"</font> /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I dunno - maybe watching Terminator 2 with my son just made it more colorful to me.

Hollywood travel tip: Don't get Linda Hamilton mad.

 

[JohninCT]

Check out the guy in Michigan that was convicted of killing a rattlesnake. Not just any rattlesnake mind you... a rare and endangered rattlesnake. Its unbelievable that this heinous act could actually get this guy jail time /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I thought that crazy stuff like this only happened here in the Northeast /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

check out the web site snake killer convicted

John in CT

 

[soarkrebel]

Now knucklehead you should have picked up on my habits better than that.
you should watch out for me shooting them piggies covered in snakes skin! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif


Johninct actually in arkansas your not supposed to shoot snakes. but after knowing game wardens very well for many years none i know have written any tickets for it.

as a matter of fact i once called one to a house that had a cotton mouth coiled up next to it. he kind of got upset and said "why didnt you just kill it!"
then he killed it and went on his way!

 

[r0GuE]

Being from Western PA, it is an oddity that I do not hunt. I have no interest in killing for sport and I'm plenty happy to have farmers raise my food (Mmmm Beeef).
But I do take GREAT pleasure in killing varmits (intruders) on my property. I am a total city boy who now lives next to hundreds of acres of woods. Mostly I get mice and i killed one snake who was probably as harmless as grass, but I don't care to learn a lot about snakes so I just killed him on principal. But My number on favorite thing to kill is wasps and hornets. This is an endless task for me as they live between the ceramic tils of my roof.
I have been kown to tape earwigs to bottle rockets and shoot them in to the air as a warning to their comrads.
Yes, I am a looney tune /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif