Author Topic: snake shooting re-visited (Read 1496 times)

John · « **on:** April 03, 2005, 03:36:51 PM »

Looks like spring has sprung, the pit vipers are out. My brother and I rid the world of 50 some cottonmouths this afternoon.....love that little Mark I.

Redhawk1 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2005, 03:43:59 PM »

Sounds like Fun...

myronman3 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 03, 2005, 04:43:08 PM »

how about some pictures? :mrgreen:

44 Man · « **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2005, 07:04:58 AM »

Boy, talk about a good excuse to go shooting! And do people a favor at the same time!!! Sounds like another good reason to head west after I retire. 44 Man

John · « **Reply #4 on:** April 04, 2005, 10:24:29 AM »

Myronman, I do have some cottonmouth pictures from a about three years ago, but they are on regular 35mm color film, and I have no way to post them.

I would be happy to send you some of the pictures if you have a way to post them, and would send them back so I can return them to my outdoor pic album.

I took a roll one day before I started shootin, and some of the pictures turned out pretty good.

I sent some to a fella named Tiny that runs a catfishing website and he posted them, but I don't know if they are still on the net somewhere or not.....I'll see if I can find them, and if they are still out there I'll post on here where they are.

myronman3 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2005, 11:42:40 AM »

i would love to help, but i aint the most technical guy out there. maybe someone else here could lend a hand in the matter. anyone?

harley45 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 04, 2005, 01:44:18 PM »

I've got a scanner if you have prints I'll get them posted and sent back to ya. e-mail me at ejkelley@nospamkconline.com
and we'll work out the details take out the no-spam part first
Eric

mikemayberry · « **Reply #7 on:** April 04, 2005, 03:25:19 PM »

John, I've sent you a personalized Rogers Co. message. Check your mail.

mike

rickyp · « **Reply #8 on:** April 04, 2005, 03:58:56 PM »

Get a copy of the April 2005 handloader mag.
It has a artical about handgun shotshells, I just got a copy and have not had time to read it yet.

John · « **Reply #9 on:** April 04, 2005, 04:30:05 PM »

harley, I sent you an email so we can get this deal rolling.

mikemayberry, I sent you a message back, nice to see an old Rogers County boy out there in the big world.

Now you boys need to know these snakes are alive and well while posing for these pictures. If you are wanting a bunch of dead snakes all lined up for proof of the carnage, we don't do that, we shoot em and let em be. There are places where ya just wouldn't be wise to be trying to gather them bad boys up that have been shot. Some don't die right away, and are rather unhappy with their state of affairs, and some are in some piles in some thick cover, and it's hard to tell just how many are around those places.

We ease around the shore in a small jon boat and shoot what we can see. We do get them stirred up where they are laying around in bunches...we don't get out of the boat.

myronman3 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 04, 2005, 04:35:16 PM »

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we don't get out of the boat.

dont blame you one bit. [/quote]

S.S. · « **Reply #11 on:** April 05, 2005, 07:53:14 AM »

I have not killed that many yet, but it sure looks like
it is going to be a good year for them. I have seen more snakes
already this year than in the last several years combined.
I think all of the rain that we have had in Ga. is driving them
out of their holes a little early this year. My trusty MK1
entrenching tool (Garden Shovel) does a fine job on them also.

HouseofCash · « **Reply #12 on:** April 05, 2005, 08:14:28 AM »

I was out feeding the ducks at a Creek infront of my house a few days back with my daughter. We were just passing the time before she had to go to school, well after she left I was out there doing what I wanted to in the first place, looking for the male beaver that has turned a natural made dam into his home. I was going to get him with a little .22lr p22. I was only interested in his pelt and tail. Anyhow after looking for him for sometime I heard spashing in the water on the other side of the dam. First thought is it was the beaver. So I made my way over there slowly and I'll be damned if it was not 15-20 water moc. Some were the size of pens one or 2 were the size of a small baseball bat and about 3 feet long or so.

So needless to say I forgot about the beaver and just killed as many snakes as I could. I really hate snakes I try to kill what I find.

Dave.

rockbilly · « **Reply #13 on:** April 05, 2005, 03:00:20 PM »

:shock: A few years ago, in May, I was fishing a Bass Tournament at a lake a few miles from home. Before daylight, I got out of the boat and into a tube and was flipping a jig in the the brush in a big cove near the dam. About 9:30 I got back in the boat and was going to move, but before getting the big motor started I saw a bass roll near the area I had been tubing. I picked up a crank bait and threw to the spot, cranked her down and got hung up. I moved the boat in close to the bank to shake the plug loose and I looked down and almost wet my pants. Everywhere you looked there was a cotton mouth, they were in bunches, looked like a bunch of spaghetti rolling around in the water. As a conservative guess, I would say there over a thousand snakes there. At weigh-in I told one of the Lake Patrol personnel about them, it was six hours later when he went to take a look, when he returned he said they were still there.

I have since learned that when snakes breed they "all get naked and get in a pile". (really they ball up like a bunch of spaghetti). Needless to say, I don't tube before daylight anymore, and I look real good before jumping in. The lake I was on is a city lake, firearms are not allowed or I would have visited again with my 12 gauge.

harley45 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 09, 2005, 05:58:22 PM »

Here is the first one ( I hope)

harley45 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 09, 2005, 06:02:29 PM »

harley45 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 09, 2005, 06:06:17 PM »

harley45 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 09, 2005, 06:09:32 PM »

harley45 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 09, 2005, 06:12:57 PM »

Last one!!

HouseofCash · « **Reply #19 on:** April 09, 2005, 06:36:01 PM »

Makes my skin crawl.

Dave.

myronman3 · « **Reply #20 on:** April 10, 2005, 03:12:25 AM »

outstanding pictures! yep, mark 1,2, or 3 with a couple of bricks of hollowpoints. or maybe even a 17 hmr revolver. of course that could get expensive if a guy ran into a lot of them.

thanks for sharing your pictures, john. and thanks harley45 for helping post them up. that is the kind of thing that makes g.b.o. great. :agree:

John · « **Reply #21 on:** April 10, 2005, 05:09:08 AM »

Great job, Harley. Thank you for posting those pictures for me.

Anybody that know their snakes can see those were the real deal, and there's always a bunch in early spring for some great plinking.

mikemayberry · « **Reply #22 on:** April 10, 2005, 05:09:49 PM »

Wow, John. That last pic is awesome although they are all good. How far were you from them to get that eye looking at you?

Brings back Rogers Co. memories but can't say I was this close at the lake. Was at a few farm ponds though.

Mike

John · « **Reply #23 on:** April 11, 2005, 04:57:59 AM »

Mike, I got right in there, up close and personal with em.

Nah, I have one of those old 35mm single reflex cameras with a couple of lenses that make em look a little closer than they really are, but I was within a few feet, say 5 or 6 from most of them.

I was alone in my little jon boat, and it was a tad windy. I would get in position to snap a photo and the wind would blow the boat around making it hard to focus the lens....a couple of times the boat was actually moving closer to the snake as I was trying to focus, and I found myself a bit closer than I would have liked to be...haha....good clean fun.

I took a whole roll of film, but with the wind and the boat movement several didn't turn out as well as I would have liked. I tried to take a couple from a ways back from a place where they were laying in pretty thick to show folks just how thick they are, but those didn't turn out at all because they just didn't show up.....if ya know just where to look you can make them out, the close ups worked much better.

John · « **Reply #24 on:** April 15, 2005, 03:53:09 PM »

I went snake shootin' again today. It will probably be the last time for this spring, the vegetation is getting too thick to see them ole snakes.

I took a buddy that was shootin a 22 mag with bird shot, and that was real affective. I still had the mark one with my hollowpoints, and did just fine with it.

We figured we got 20-25, not a bad day.

Danny · « **Reply #25 on:** April 24, 2005, 04:08:33 AM »

If you snakeshooters get a copperhead or two in the large to extra large size there is a market for their skins among traditional bow shooters. We like to use them to back wooden bows for decoration. Rattlers too.