Nightmare in the garage tonite.....

[gerhard]

I was babysitting my 3 year old grand-daughter tonite....and stepped out in the garage to get a can of coke.....my wife has a habit of just stacking a couple of the cartons on the 2nd step landing..going into the kitchen...for years...she and I both have just gone out there...stuck our hand in the coke carton...pulled out a can of coke and gone back into the kitchen......however...tonite.as I opened the door on the landing...for the briefest..quickest..split second....I saw "something" go into the open carton.....stood there and thought about it....1st thought was a mouse...then replaying it in my mind.....it was a snake tail...!!!.....So....I get my S&W..Model 36 with the 3" barrel....load couple snake loads.....gingerly pick up the carton...take it out to the driveway......just then my neighbor pulls in.....I told him to come over and take a look at something......the top of the carton was pulled back...I shined my flashlight into the box...he bent over....SCREAMED..!!!..ITS A RATTLESNAKE....!!..(every snake he has Ever seen has been a "Rattlesnake".....I almost couldnt aim the pistol for laughing....he said "what are you gonna do.?"....I said got some snake loads...so gonna pop him couple of times....which I did....killing two coke cans also.....shined the light inside...and it WAS....a Big snake....not sure what kind........I "think" it is a pine snake.....but it possibly could be a copperhead......Im not going to reach in and see.....just gonna bag it tomorrow and dispose of it.........told my wife.......thats the end of coke cartons on the landing.......but again....it was one of those things....."did I just see something go into that box..???..or was it my imagination.?"...Thank goodness i keep a box of snake loads on workbench....and my Model 36 handy...............well.....I should sleep good tonite....hopefully...........thats all the latest news from Sunny Tennessee......Gerhard...

 

[Grog]

I'm glad I grew up in Pepsi country

 

[kennyb]

a copperhead will have a triangle shaped head and what looks to be hourglass markings on the back....hope you don't have a nest of them around there....

 

[whitecoyote]

Any pictures? I'd like to see it.

 

[BlackSky]

If I did that where I live I'd be in jail.

 

[GoHogs]

Found a full snake skin inside a trash bag box in my garage, so I have some sympathy for your "encounter".

 

[Grog]

Tomorrow's mission = placing snakeshot all over the house without the Mrs asking what the heck I am doing

 

[oldman45]

If there was one snake, there are more. I have killed several around my house and I live in an upperscale subdivision that is well populated with homes. My best season yet was seven snakes last year but have not seen one this year.

 

[BarbC]

Henceforth, you shall be known as Snakeslayer, Hero of the Homestead.

 

[Beemer-mark]

Just curious, why do people hate snakes so? There are very, very few poisonous ones. They are scared of people and eat rodents and bugs. I'd rather have a few snakes around then mice and rats.

 

[BarbC]

I don't hate them. I used to have a hand-dug basement with a french drain around it that exited to the creek. I had so many snakes in the basement, I would find skins in the rafters. Once there was a litter of milk snakes under the chest freezer. Of course, the washer and dryer were down there too. It was the dungeon.

I figured the snakes ate the wolf spiders that also lived down there, so they were ok by me.

 

[sceva]

My wife's aunt thought they had a bee's nest in their shed as they heard buzzing in there when they went to get something out. She went in to get a bucket to pick blackberries one day when she reached up to take it down she saw an Eastern Diamondback coiled up snoozing next to it. It met with an sudden demise soon after due to an encounter with a 12ga. The aunt showed me the tail they cut off, 13 rattles .

 

[Dan Cash]

Snake shot is a waste of money. Some years ago, while we lived in KY, my good wife found a copperhead in the bathroom. Not wanting to ventilate the room, she secured a meat tenderizing hammer and softened up old Jake Noshoulders. When I got home he was very tender and ready for the pan but we threw him out instead.

 

[cowboy117]

Just curious, why do people hate snakes so? There are very, very few poisonous ones. They are scared of people and eat rodents and bugs. I'd rather have a few snakes around then mice and rats.

+1.I grew up in Missouri;lots of snakes there.They are better than some people.

 

[Mule88]

If the pupil has a slit in it (cat like)instead of being round, it probably is a copperhead

 

[jag312]

I came very close to getting bitten by a rattlesnake when I was a child. Now, the only good rattlesnake is a dead rattlesnake.

 

[n4zov]

If the pupil has a slit in it (cat like)instead of being round, it probably is a copperhead

Thanks for the tip, but there is at least one member of the forum who is NOT going to be checking it out! Sorry to all the snake lovers, but I'll just continue to follow my iron clad rule of shooting on sight.

 

[nicky4968]

Dispatched a prairie rattler last week. The local grade school's mascot is "The Rattlers". Two or three or four are killed on the playground every year.
The downside of a suburb in the foothills with a very nice greenspace.
BTW, yesterday, two black bears had to be killed by the sheriff's office. Idiots had put peanuts on the porch railing, and 5 or 6 hummingbird feeders around the house. A yearling cub came for the peanuts and feeders, then broke into house and broke into pantry. Not sure what the other bear was up to.
Peoples is so stupid.

 

[Farmer17]

There was an article in the paper a while back about a guy here in Oklahoma that was by his a garage one evening and reached down to pick something up, and got bit on the hand by a Pigmy rattlesnake(I didn't even know we had Pigmy rattlesnakes?) When the snake bit him he jumped backwards and fell down, and fell right on top of a Copperhead. The two poisons working together were pretty wicked and he was in critical condition for about 3 days, but survived. The article said that there has only been one death due to snake bite in the state in the last 50 years, and that was guy who lived WAY out in the country got bit by a rattler and had an allegic reaction. As they were driving to the nearest hospital the car ran out of gas, and he didn't make it.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Back when I worked for the phone company in the Sierra Nevada foothills we wern't allowed to carry a gun. But we had shovels & used them for snakes. We had both Timber rattlers & Pacific rattlers. Found out to stay away from blackerry patches as rattlers love to hide in them.