Non-Traditional Loads

[rodwha]

I completely agree! I have no idea why he thought that was a good idea or what he intended to do with it. Pretty foolish and it came back to bite him (literally!), just not in the arse.

I don’t kill snakes because I dislike them except for water moccasins or the baby rattlesnake I found by my front porch which I just can’t have in my yard.

 

[rodwha]

Wanted the old military flashlights once I got into that myself. Something nice about a flashlight that more easily points forward. Understandable why it was utilized during Vietnam.

All I ever found besides spiders, weird centipedes, and cave crickets were a baby nutria and ringtail cat.

My grandma gave me a bag of peanut M&Ms once worried I might get stuck.

 

[Tinker2]

Years ago, when I was skinnier.... :grin: I use to do a lot of spelunking....Crawled into a lot of holes and crevasses that a person could barely fit through....Pistol in one hand, flashlight in the other.....

Use to do that when I lived in Colorado, lots O fun.

Learned right off not fire a gun inside them caves. :shocked2:




William Alexander

 

[rodwha]

One reason I became interested in a CO2 pellet gun. Never happened though...

 

[Grumpa]

Pretty much all the above is good advice. Most generally, snakes won't bother you if you don't bother them. You're too big to swallow, so unless you startle them or threaten them, they'll leave you be. Don't go looking for them and you probably won't find them. But be careful, getting bitten by a viper is one terrible experience. You may likely survive, but the pain can be unbearable, and you may be permanently disfigured.

Oh, and there are no water moccasins in PA. Rattlers and copperheads. I always have a handgun with me; snakes are waaay down on the list of reasons why. Dogs, 'coons, rabid fox, coyotes, bear and, mostly, people. the .36 Navy will do the job, but for the bear you might want to move up to a .44. (Black bear are no harder to kill than a deer, but they can bite and claw while they're dying.)

Whatever you carry...just carry it...and just ball. Here's to your "ease of mind".

Richard/Grumpa

 

[tenngun]

Wild dog packs and rabid animals, human and non, are the reason I don’t enter the woods unarmed. We do have big cats,bear,coyotes, and hogs. All of them could cause me harm but are far more likely to run on hearing me. It’s the rabid animal and the feral dogs that might be more aggressive. Snakes don’t really scare me.
However the biggest dangers in the woods are not defended by guns. All the nasty thing you can catch from the bite of a creepy crawly

 

[Zonie]

Yah. Rabid animals can be a real threat.

About a week ago a woman was bitten by a rabid javalina in the North Scottsdale area (East of Phoenix).
She had been feeding a squadron of them and somehow one of them had contracted the disease.
(Yes, squadron is the right term. I think it's kinda neat. )

Then there was the time my buddy's and I were out in the western part of the Superstition Mountains one evening, sitting by the fire and drinking beer (While Bob sipped his Jim Beam).

Suddenly out of the dark a Gray Fox came running into the camp and charged into the pile of burning mesquite wood, bit one of the pieces and then ran off into the darkness while some of his fur continued to burn.

HOLY S**T!! we yelled in unison as our eyes bugged out. :shocked2: :shocked2: :shocked2:

Needless to say, that stunt required a few more rounds of beer to calm us down.

It all happened so fast, no one could have pulled a gun to defend ourselves. Probably just as well.

In our slightly more than "relaxed" condition we probably would have shot each other.

 

[rodwha]

Where’s the emoji of a rabid fox biting a fire!?!?

That’s pretty crazy!

 

[azmntman]

Two javalina attacks in Sedona within last few weeks. Both older folks that had been feeding the squadrens? (herds?) of them. One was hurt pretty bad, an 89 yesr old lady. Both likley to have to get rabies shots as a rabid javalina was found months back. I believe G&F killed the herd in its entirety on both occasions as they had lost the fear of man.

Last year, closer to Zonie, in Anthem, a rabid bob cat was attacking a guy walking his German shepherd. The dog had complete control and was killing the thing when a dogooder passerbye "helped" get the dog off the bobcat which was later killed by game and fish. Guy that was "helping" had to get the shots as he was hurt good. The dog walker was unharmed. I love German shepherds :grin: Now thats how I remember the news story, its dang near as it happened and I guess ya could google the incident.

Rabies nothing to mess with fer sure.