Jogging, guns and rattle snakes

[jbull380]

So last year I combine working out with firearms training. I have a small range in my backyard with a bullet trap and a post at 25 yards that serves as a barricade. I begin my run at the 25, run 3.2 miles returning to the barricade and shoot six rounds at 25 yards with an elivated heart rate heavy breathing and all of the other effects of running.

Yesterday I begin my run and before I get out of my driveway I'm met by a 3' 9-1/2" velvet tale. It resulted in one extra round for the firearms portion of my run.

 

[old bear]

GOOD SHOOTING

 

[carpriver]

I wouldn't run where there are snakes.

 

[4011]

I'd be hanging me some tissue on that post for such an emergency!

 

[Rpg]

You don't need hi-vel loads for snakes, as your post proves

Nor are 'snake shot' very helpful.

Hitting what you shoot at is paramount

Just my opinion , of course.

 

[timn8er]

I wouldn't run where there are snakes.

I would run away from where there are snakes!

 

[Texas Star]

Timber rattler, Crotalus horidus?

What'd you shoot it with? You knew we'd ask!

My daughter is moving to Oklahoma. I'll warn her they have those up there, too. Her kids really need to be given a course in snake ID, as they'll be in a fairly rural area.

 

[Class III]

Yep, got them here, too. Summer of 2010 the GF and I were up at my farm and she almost stepped on one near the pole barn. She plugged it with my 60-14, although it took her three shots to hit the serpent once in the neck. It was just short of 39", stretched straight , without the head.

After the killing the bees/hornets stripped it to the bones in about 48 hours.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, if you ask me.

Class III

 

[Texas Star]

Yep, got them here, too. Summer of 2010 the GF and I were up at my farm and she almost stepped on one near the pole barn. She plugged it with my 60-14, although it took her three shots to hit the serpent once in the neck. It was just short of 39", stretched straight , without the head.

After the killing the bees/hornets stripped it to the bones in about 48 hours.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, if you ask me.

Class III

All well and good, but I sort of prefer to buy clover honey.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Did you try reasoning with it? It costs you nothing, and if it doesn't work, you are no worse off than when you started.

 

[islamoradamark]

thats what shot placement is all about

 

[jbull380]

Timber rattler, Crotalus horidus?

What'd you shoot it with? You knew we'd ask!

My daughter is moving to Oklahoma. I'll warn her they have those up there, too. Her kids really need to be given a course in snake ID, as they'll be in a fairly rural area.

I run with my back up a 9mm G19. Funny you mention your dUghter. I texted a pic of the snake to my kids and my dUghter who now lives in Texes texted me back. It was not the "OMG that's disgusting and scary" comment. All I got was "nice head shot" I looked at my wife and asked, are we from Oklahoma or what?

 

[ibewbull]

Am I the only one who wants to know if you cooked it for supper?

 

[jbull380]

Thought about skinning it but we did not eat it.

 

[Texas Star]

I run with my back up a 9mm G19. Funny you mention your dUghter. I texted a pic of the snake to my kids and my dUghter who now lives in Texes texted me back. It was not the "OMG that's disgusting and scary" comment. All I got was "nice head shot" I looked at my wife and asked, are we from Oklahoma or what?

My daughter's only handgun is a M-38 Airweight snub that she probably can't hit a snake in the coils with. Let alone the head. She's never been too interested in wildlife or shooting.

Her brother clobbered a water moccasin a couple of years ago, with a very nice Colt Govt. Model .45 auto. I think it was loaded with 230 grain Federal HST's. He knows btoh snakes and guns.

 

[kozmic]

I live on the northern edge of Timber and Massasauga Rattlesnake range, so I'm not too likely to encounter one in my day to day activities. But like everything (except perhaps coyotes), they would get a free pass unless there was imminent danger to human or pet.

 

[jbull380]

I see more cotton mouths or water moccasins and copper heads than rattlers. This is the biggest one I've seen in a while.

 

[Texas Star]

The TV news in Dallas-Ft. Worth has been warning of venomous snakes out here. They showed a copperhead. It was the gray and brown variant. I think the tan and copper/brown one looks better.

I nearly stepped on a water moccasin here in north Dallas, in a residential neighborhood a few years ago. People from big cities forget that snakes live there, too. I think I hear every year about people being bitten in their gardens and yards. Copperheads are the most frequent biters.

 

[italiansport]

One of my neighbors shot this picture of a Bull Snake in her yard yesterday. Everyone out here in Arizona pretty much leaves them alone as they are very efficient rodent killers.
Jim

 

[bhayles]

Rattlers and water moccasins get a pass unless they are posing a direct and imminent danger (don't tell my wife that though), but a copperhead seen is a dead copperhead in my book. The others are about as afraid of people as people are afraid of them, and really want to get away.

A copperhead, on the other hand, is aggressive and will literally chase you.