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All these stories make like the people are helpless around the snakes, and they got to wrestle them into a box. Just like lions out west, just shoot the darn thing. Wonder if one of those 10 footers would survive a 12 ga. with a load of bird shot. From me it would get both barrels and then some. I had a hi-standard .22 pistol one time, there was a rattle snake, hit it first shot and it balled up and was squirming around, so emptied 9 more hollow points into it. I don't feel any compulsion to live with rattle snakes or lions, and if you are a do-gooder, I don't care who was here first, I care who will be here last. So if it was a 10 foot long snake and there was a pause in the firing, it would be because I'd be reloading for the next 10 rounds, might end up shooting the entire box. Those snakes are an invasive species and there is no reason to let them live in this country.
 

BosnMate said:
All these stories make like the people are helpless around the snakes, and they got to wrestle them into a box. Just like lions out west, just shoot the darn thing. Wonder if one of those 10 footers would survive a 12 ga. with a load of bird shot. From me it would get both barrels and then some. I had a hi-standard .22 pistol one time, there was a rattle snake, hit it first shot and it balled up and was squirming around, so emptied 9 more hollow points into it. I don't feel any compulsion to live with rattle snakes or lions, and if you are a do-gooder, I don't care who was here first, I care who will be here last. So if it was a 10 foot long snake and there was a pause in the firing, it would be because I'd be reloading for the next 10 rounds, might end up shooting the entire box. Those snakes are an invasive species and there is no reason to let them live in this country.
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That is so sad. I am not trying to bust your balls BosnMate, but I coexist with snakes. Snakes where I live will not hunt you down and eat you.
 

My opinion. If you don't want to see a snake, shark, lion, tiger, or bear(oh my) then stay in the city where they don't live. If your gonna venture into their habitat then respect their habitat and leave them alone! I swim with sharks and I walk where snakes roam and I respect them. If I have (and I have) an encounter with them I simply walk the other way. I don't kill them. If you don't like them don't go to where they live. Pretty simple logic to me.



Chris W.
 

Well guys, having been bitten by a copperhead I did not see until it bit me, when I was 12 - I do not allow them to live in my territory - it's NOT their territory.
 

DeepseekerADS said:
Well guys, having been bitten by a copperhead I did not see until it bit me, when I was 12 - I do not allow them to live in my territory - it's NOT their territory.
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Guy.... I most certainly understand your meaning and concern. But I most respectfully disagree that it is NOT their territory. If it wasn't they wouldn't be there or you. I live on a ridge top that's nicknamed named "Copperhead ridge". And it lives up to it's meaning. During the summer copperheads are everywhere and they never bother us what so ever. I do not allow them in my yard or shrubs but I do allow them to roam everywhere else along with rattlers. They don't bother me, my wife or grandkids at all. They ONLY time they confront is when they are confronted. There are ways to keep them out of your yard and I DO NOT WANT THEM ANYWHERE CLOSE... but it is their territory and I built a home right in the middle of it.
 

tics are coming out up here them things are the worst.....
got to respect the places you go and the animals that live with in...


liftloop
 

HOLY COW... here in Middle TN. my buddy and I have wasted NO DEEP WOODS OFF spray. We have sprayed every inch of "us" and then the socks, pants, shoes and shirts. And when we get back still take many ticks off. We strip most clothes and throw in washer, race to the showers and then hope we got them all then throw rest in washer and fire it up. They are BAD!!!!!!!
 

Limitool said:
HOLY COW... here in Middle TN. my buddy and I have wasted NO DEEP WOODS OFF spray. We have sprayed every inch of "us" and then the socks, pants, shoes and shirts. And when we get back still take many ticks off. We strip most clothes and throw in washer, race to the showers and then hope we got them all then throw rest in washer and fire it up. They are BAD!!!!!!!
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We were in Murfreesboro for a few months in 2011, and the flea problem was unbelieveable. I put frontline on the dogs and still had a major problem. Called the number on the pkg -- they said use spray outside on the grass. I said -- but Tennessee is real big, I cannot spray the whole state. Sigh. Be careful out there, people (and critters).

-- bite-free in L.A. Just have to watch out for rattlers. And bears. Cougars. Yup.
 

If I was planning on tent camping in a spot for a while and found a poisonous snake nearby, I would kill it or move to another spot if I wasn't all set up yet! My tent has no floor and I set up some mouse traps (the ones that kill) to keep them out of my stuff too, I guess you all would trust your buddy snake to come in the tent and get them mice! Not me! I kill spiders too, But really as long as I don't see some critter as a threat I let em go...
 

Well, let's see, We have members on here that would not dispose of, a rattler, a copperhead, a black-widow, a brown recluse, a mosquito, a flea, a tick, etc all because they were there first or it is there territory. I think they don't consider that they are on Native American's territory that was killed for!
Does it really matter who or what was there first? It should matter that they, the animals and insects, would kill you without hesitation. Now as far as the rat population, I can handle that. Hay, I am a targrt shooter. How there is also the fact that I have never been attacked by a rat. Just my point of view. Frank...
111-2 the catnapper.jpgWell, sometimes the rat control sleeps!
 

Poisonous snakes that might sneak into your tent, ok I agree with. But the rest I agree to move to another location. Be it, it or me.



Chris W.
 

Frankn said:
Well, let's see, We have members on here that would not dispose of, a rattler, a copperhead, a black-widow, a brown recluse, a mosquito, a flea, a tick, etc all because they were there first or it is there territory. I think they don't consider that they are on Native American's territory that was killed for!
Does it really matter who or what was there first? It should matter that they, the animals and insects, would kill you without hesitation. Now as far as the rat population, I can handle that. Hay, I am a targrt shooter. How there is also the fact that I have never been attacked by a rat. Just my point of view. Frank...
View attachment 994119Well, sometimes the rat control sleeps!
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ever hear of the Black Plague or the hantavirus? I suppose you just stretch the rat's flee's ass over a thimble and use that for target practice! :laughing7:
 

If you in my town and dangerous, you gone! Darn treehuggas can suc* it!
 

LOOK... if your going camping with a tent or whatever... just take a box or TWO of moth balls and put around the perimeter of your area. BUT... if you do it in a LARGE area like a lawn you have to be careful that you don't trap them IN. So start from the inside and work your way out.

There is NO poisonous snake that wants to attack a human being. But I do not kill rattlers and the copperheads around my property that are in the woods. Keep the lawn mowed low and the shrubs loaded with moth balls.... Then no problem. But spiders and other nasty insects I guess call in a specialist. My wife was bitten by a brown recluse and its a nasty bite!!!!!! Every dog I've owned here in Middle TN. has been bitten once by a copperhead or rattler upon this ridge. All survived and went on with life.... ONCE is the key word in past sentence.
 

Moth balls? That sounds like a wives tail... I am sure you believe it! I ain't buying it...you got your snake repellant and I got mine!
 

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