Copperhead Roundup

[Brian Shaffer]

The title is a visual pun.

I was out mowing the fields at my folks' place when my father came rolling up and asked if I would help with a couple of copperheads next to the house. Well, I figured that was a helluva lot more exciting than mowing weeds out in the pasture on an open tractor.

Pop is off camera. He is watching, I guess in case anything goes wrong, not that he could get to a phone and call 911 very quickly. He is 82 and has slowed down quite a bit. Anyway, that is who I am talking to off camera...

 

[scrmblr1982cj8]

Did you dump them in DJ's front yard?

 

[Brian Shaffer]

Shhhhh!


yes

 

[RattlesnakeDan]

HE SAID YES...HAHA

 

[Chopperdrvr]

Nice that you just happened to have a long snake stick with you. I have a hook that make things a lot more western at times. I was talking too my mechanic a little earlier today and he told me he was bitten on the finger last weekend by a copperhead. Fortunately for him it was a dry bite and he is back at work.

 

[Curly Shuffle]

Just in time for POPS Day!! Good on ya!! BANG BANG!!

 

[Brian Shaffer]

Nice that you just happened to have a long snake stick with you. I have a hook that make things a lot more western at times. I was talking too my mechanic a little earlier today and he told me he was bitten on the finger last weekend by a copperhead. Fortunately for him it was a dry bite and he is back at work.

My folks just live 10 minutes away over in the next town. I had to go home and find my snake catcher. That was the first time I used it on a snake since I bought it in 1989. I think it cost me $30. It was a long term investment, LOL.

 

[rgilbert]

Just reach in and grab em!

 

[Brian Shaffer]

That's what my pop said!

 

[Ratdog68]

I'm with you Brian... Homie don't like grabbing snakes with bare meat-hooks... even non-venomous ones. Danged things poop on ya and STINK. LOL

Just think, some day, you'll pass the snake stick off to Slayer Beall to have and to keep.

 

[Chopperdrvr]

Lynn took care of a snake in the back yard today. She thought it was a cotton mouth and dispatched it with her 1911. I told her I thought it was a little overkill, but she said she wanted to make sure and she didn't want to get very close. lol. It's now missing most of its head and half of its innards because it was coiled. It turned out to not be a cotton mouth, but looked so close I told her I would have shot it too.

 

[Ratdog68]

Good practice... and sounds like she's a good shot with that .45. Be nice to her. LOL

 

[Chopperdrvr]

Good practice... and sounds like she's a good shot with that .45. Be nice to her. LOL

lol. She is and I always try to remember that. We usually carry a .22 mag revolver with bird shot. I found out years ago, it is very effective on rattlers especially when your heart rate is maxed out. She wanted to use the .45 so that she could use the laser. I guess its sighted in pretty good.

 

[scrmblr1982cj8]

I love my Judge! We have more cotton mouths than copperheads around here.

 

[Chopperdrvr]

Dang! That one is a trophy for sure.

 

[Wildfowler]

Stumptails. I can smell them all the way over here.