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[Limitool]

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!

Well maybe I'm mistaken... but we've used them now for 3 years up here on "copperhead ridge" and no snakes found in shrubs or flowers around house. But there are PLENTY all around the property outside of this boundary. My other "repellant" within the yard is my .22 rifle and it has been used a LOT over 20 years within the yard.

 

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[Boatlode]

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!

No, its not a wives tale. Moth balls work, if they are the ones made with naphthalene (which is the active ingredient in commercial snake repellents like "Snake-A-Way"). The moth balls made of camphor are useless for repelling snakes, so you have to check the ingredients.

 

[Frankn]

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.

I beg to differ with you, but a cobra will hunt you down and kill you with his nerve venom.
A bear, in the right mood will hunt you down and eat you alive! Think of that.
Frank...-

 

[centfladigger]

Did I miss the original video? The video I saw was about a Great White, and y`all are talking snakes? lol

 

[walker614]

I beg to differ with you, but a cobra will hunt you down and kill you with his nerve venom.
A bear, in the right mood will hunt you down and eat you alive! Think of that.
Frank...-
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So will people.... You gonna kill anyone that comes too close?



Chris W.

 

[Escape]

What about those freaking birds? The way they look at you with their beedy eyes. Some have beeks that can turn a tree into sawdust. I carry a tennis racket when I hike in case one decides to swoop down on me. So far none have. Probably because they see the racket. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Limitool]

I beg to differ with you, but a cobra will hunt you down and kill you with his nerve venom.
A bear, in the right mood will hunt you down and eat you alive! Think of that.
Frank...-
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Ok Frankn.... I'll be a little more specific. There are NO poisonous snakes in my area of Tennessee that will hunt you down just to bite you. But I'll have to "give ya" the bear comment.

 

[Limitool]

So will people.... You gonna kill anyone that comes too close? Chris W.

Yep.... speaking for myself anyway.

 

[Unclebuck257]

Living out in the country in a rural section of North Texas with tanks (farm ponds) on my place, I have rattlers, water mocassins and cottonmouths to contend with. Limitool is right for the most part in that with the large tank only 100 yds behind my home, if I keep the front and back yards mowed short, very seldon do the snakes come into our yard from the pasture, but I'll shoot any posioness one I find near my home. Cats around the house are a great deterent for any snakes too. However, when I'm out on the place doing anything work wise or pleasure wise like MDing or fixing fence, and away from the house area, if a posioness snake stands it's ground with me, I'll quickly show it what 12 ga birdshot can and will do. I've already got enough of them so I don't figure I'll miss one, or twelve, for that matter.

 

[Hot zone]

Living out in the country in a rural section of North Texas with tanks (farm ponds) on my place, I have rattlers, water mocassins and cottonmouths to contend with. Limitool is right for the most part in that with the large tank only 100 yds behind my home, if I keep the front and back yards mowed short, very seldon do the snakes come into our yard from the pasture, but I'll shoot any posioness one I find near my home. Cats around the house are a great deterent for any snakes too. However, when I'm out on the place doing anything work wise or pleasure wise like MDing or fixing fence, and away from the house area, if a posioness snake stands it's ground with me, I'll quickly show it what 12 ga birdshot can and will do. I've already got enough of them so I don't figure I'll miss one, or twelve, for that matter.

Perhaps you should sack some of them up! Those Appalachian snake charmers are always looking for 'em! They don't need no gun, they got The Lord...

 

[Dr. Syn]

It's not sharks, or bears, or lions, or even snakes. It's those evil bunny rabbits you have to watch out for.

 

[doc-d]

We have choices…..if you are out and encounter a snake, you can choose to leave it alone, or terminate it……
Just because I have a weapon and will eliminate threats, does not mean I intend to force this upon you…….likewise, do not impose your ideas upon me.
Nature has good and bad, control the bad.

 

[Frankn]

Well, I have to admit, I have a lot of Natural control on my property. I have large black snakes. They are noted for there ability to kill and eat copperheads and rattlers. I also have some stray cats on my property that keep the rat population at bay. I feed them and they leave dead rats by my door to let me know they are doing there job.
I live on the MD/PA line in MD. I have never seen a copperhead on my property, but my neighbor, on the PA side has copperheads on the north end of his property. They love the rocks near the river.
I have actually only once ran into a poison snake while hunting a cache near Dents Run PA. As I was walking up a trail, I spotted this BIG timber rattler coiled up 4' to my side. I know from reading that the average Rattler can only strike 3' out. His head was back and his tail was vibrating, but he did not strike. Even though I was carrying my darrenger with .410 000 buck loads, I slowly walked away. If this had been my farm, he would have been dead.
There's that thing about a time and place for everything. Frank...-

 

[Jeremy S]

So I see this thread title and thought it was going to be about the young lady that "helped" her friend try out his bullet proof vest. Man dead in South Carolina after asking friend to shoot him  - NY Daily News

But instead I find a weird video of a shark eating a inflatable raft while some guys capture the event with their hand point n' shoot cameras.

And then the rest of the topic degrades into the usual ranting about killing snakes and I saw one metnion of a tree hugger somewhere. Man, you guys start drinking EARLY in the day!