"Kill them all, let God sort it out."

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Can open, worms everywhere.

What part of Texas are you in? Need to make a note not to move there.

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Can open, worms everywhere.

These buggers, most times, don't look anything like the pictures in the books and the State of Florida Wildlife website. After they dry up in the sun for a few hours you can barely make out any type of pattern on the skin and they get much "browner".

I don't mean to be a snake slayer or hater of snakes but they just cannot be where my children and dogs play. If they stay where they belong, no harm, no foul. Live and let live.

They come on to the "people" side of the property, I'm just not going to wait for one of them to make a aggressive move.

These bugger move FAST and strike even faster.

My dog is either very courageous, or very STUPID. She will do battle with anything that shows aggression to her or comes too near "her" domain. Dogs are very territorial, that way. I lost count of count raccoons she's confronted and the few she actually caught and killed (all torn up on her face and neck) and CATS just don't come by here any more.

Just luck we have very few snakes and the past few snakes shes spotted just freeze. She stays there and barks to get my attention. If the snake slithers away she follows and tracks.

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Next door neighbor found a four footer in his yard last week. Kilt 'im; kilt 'im daid.

The wife found one in our yard a couple years ago. I was at work. I told my son to get a hoe out of the shed and cut its head off. Dumb butt used his machete instead. You have to get too close with that for my taste, but at least he didn't get bitten. Mostly western Diamondbacks here,

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Or something like that . . .

Deep fried till golden brown, tasty!!

I've always used a 12 ga with 7-1/2 or #8 shot. I've taken a few with hard cast .357, my K22 also, and driven over a couple too!

Probably why it was holed up, with that belly full of meal.

Abilene, for some reason they seem to be everywhere this year. Guess we have plenty of mice & vermin. Or the drought is moving them closer in as they look for water.

Curled up in the valve box, maybe 3 footer?
Enough to pack a punch but too small for much but a hat band.
Quarter stick then worry about the repair.

In Sweetwater, Texas that's known as lunch.

My aunt had a trailer at the Colorado River near Needles. A bunch of us would go every Memorial Day for tubing, snake collecting, shooting, and all kinds of desert stuff. Shined a light down in the vault and didn't see anything, so I reached down to turn on the water. Something straw colored ran up my arm. I jumped about ten feet in the air and then realized it was a banded gecko and NOT a scorpion!

The next morning we found some giant diamondback tracks and while turning over boards found a bark scorpion (the REALLY nasty buggers).

The next night, I came back and went to crawl into my sleeping bag (it was about 100F) and felt a sharp burning pain that shot up all the way into my groin==I told my girlfriend to wake up my buddy 'cuz we were going to the hospital! Carefully pulled back the sleeping bag and it was a giant paper wasp. She had gotten me right in the crease next to the ball of my foot. The next day, another friend got stung by a "cow killer" (a wingless wasp). We went back Monday with three of us unable to drive (we all had stick shifts==oh, one more got a big chunk of cholla in his ankle!)

Sounds like an average day/night in the Mohave.

Killed three suspected Bark Scorpions in the back yard last night. Speedy little buggers after they got hit with the spray, then they all died quickly. Here's an ID photo or two. Our local enemy, the Arizona Bark Scorpion

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And don't forget about our famous Florida Gators ... and not the sports team.

800-Pound, 15-Foot-Long Alligator Caught on Florida Farm

If you confronted one, on the charge, what do you have to stop it ? This is no time for a handgun, I think.

I'll go with a Benelli M1 Super 90, 12 gauge. 2 x rifled expansion slugs first out, backed up with 6 x 00 buck right behind.

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My large capacity semi-automatic shovel works just fine for Colorado rattlesnakes. Unfortunately, our state legislature has decreed rattlesnakes to be a protected species, with a hunting season, license requirement, daily bag limits, possession limits, and accepted or prohibited methods of taking said game animals.

So far I've been able to deal with things on a case by case basis. If a rattlesnake shows itself around my property I kill it. If a rattlesnake is found on one of my neighbors' properties I kill it. If the rattlesnakes stay on open prairie land away from homes, humans, and pets I leave them alone.

We have enough rattlesnakes readily available that I think I could make an effective argument to any jury empaneled to determine my culpability. Just turn one rattlesnake loose in the jury room and see what their reaction will be.

The CCI shot loads are OK, but the "pattern" is poor, at any distance past five feet.

I load #11 shot, in the capsules, and it will kill them DEAD, no twitch, or squirming.

It was tough to find #11, or #12 shot, so I bought a couple of pounds, when I found it.

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