David said: "Rooster shot at least 3 rattlers while on rappel. Any caver ever
done that?"
I don't know about rattlers, but on one trip out to a ranch near Copperas Cove,
the rancher mentioned that he'd had trouple with porcupines chewing up his
fenceposts. So Jon Everage took a pistol, crawled down the porky's hole and
shot it...forgetting, of course, that he was in really close confines. He was
deaf for a few hours after that. Somewhere I have some slides of him crawling
down the hole (one with just the bottom of his boots showing) and some with the
porky.
Louise
