HAHAHA sounds like you need glasses or shooting lessons Chuck.
If we ever get rattlers over here in England I'll give Jimmy or Dono
a call.
My mate is the same, he has a rat problem, they keep getting up on
his bird table so he bought an air rifle to deal with them, reckons
he has had about 40 shots and not killed any although a pellet did
ricochet off a metal garden chair and nearly hit his wife in the
head so he is getting closer to hitting something.
Made my day reading your story.
Birdie
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From: Chuck Alexander <mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
; fly fishing for panfish
<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:57 AM
Subject: [VFB] HUGE Rattler
Folks: It's the dog days of Summer, and that means (at least
around here) that the snakes are crawling, and are meaner than
ever. Yesterday, my son and grand daughter were walking to the
edge of of or property to check on getting a part off an old
Ford we have parked there when they saw a huge rattler gliding
across the yard. They ran up and got me, and wouldn't ya know it
but the firing pin on my shotgun is broken, so I get my 22
magnum pistol and go out there. I spot him, and you know how ppl
are about telling you the size of snakes. It's like telling you
the size of the "fish that got away". But this was one of the
Eastern Diamondbacks you see on the TV shows, as in over 5ft
long, and bigger than my forearm. But the weird thing is, even
after I shot (and missed 3 out of 5 times, cause it's hard to
hit a snake with an old revolver at 15 yards, cause that was as
close as I was getting LOL). Anyway, through all that, he NEVER
ratted a single time. I shot and missed. I shot again and hit
him. He stopped dead in his tracks and I thought I had heart
shot him, cause I knew it was a "body shot". I shot again, and
hit him again. (reason I know is cause after he had gone, I saw
the blood stains on the ground) He still didn't move. His tail
was straight up, and he had 7 or 8 rattles, each at least 3/4"
across, but like I said, they NEVER once rattled. I missed him
three more times, and had one round mis fire before he FINALLY
started crawling off VERY SLOWLY. My son in law had heard the
shots and came down with his shotgun, and we went out into the
woods and hunted the snake for 30 minutes or so, but never saw
him again. Man, that really scared me knowing how close he was
to my son and grand daughter. He was a BEAUTIFUL snake as he had
JUST shed his skin and his colors and markings were really
bright. But he'll be "dead and beautiful" if I see him again and
hopefully get more shots at him LOL. Anyway, if you live
anywhere that is snake country, this is a bad time of the year,
so be on the lookout at all times. Chuck
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