Rattlesnakes

Back in the day -- we built forts in the hay stacks. After one recently delivered Big truck & trailer load, we built a swell fort and spent the night.

When we woke up in the morning, we found a bunch of small, whitish
Scorpions.

Not the kind that make y'all sick if they sting you though ........
It'd kill you.

But, HeY!
I'm still alive.

 

I agree and don't give a hoot what Frued says about Snakes........

Oh lovely..............Lot Lizards in my neck of the woods.

However, I do like that idea of yours about building forts out of hay stacks...........when my brother and I were kids we were always building a fort of some kind.

So how ya tame a snake anyways ? ? I've been told Arkansas has tons of them.

 

A couple of snake stories.

I went to a house to do an inspection once. To get to this house you had to ford a creek (drive through it not on a bride). Well the water was kind of high and I splashed it too high going through and got my ignition wet. I did my inspection and went to leave but the truck wouldn't start, so I climbed up and was taking the distributor off to dry it so it's fire. The guy that owned the house came up behind me and said, "Don't Move". I froze right there and suddenly, Bang, a 38 went off behind me shooting toward me. Turns out there was a copperhead crawling under the truck and he'd shot it with the 38 shooting under my feet standing on the bumper to do it.

My other snake story was on an old Snapper riding mower. The kind with the bike handles in the front and motor in the back. I was mowing around a building and evidently I woke up about a 5' black snake. I don't know where it came from, but it fell off that building, landed first on my knees and wrapped in them dang handle bars. I beat, slung and kicked snake until I got it in front of the mower, then ran over it cutting it in a gaggle of pieces. I'll admit, I peed on myself with that one.

Skipper

 

I love to backpacking but with these stories and the ones about snakes crawling into the sleeping bag to get warm at night, keep me sticking to Michigan and Wisconsin
And scorpions sleeping in your boots

 

WE had a Christmas TREE FARM for years in the Southern Part of Michigan.
I grew up their as a child working my ### of in the fields.

WE had Blue Racer's and Southern Michigan Rattle snakes.

Blue racers are LARGE snakes and they will chase you! ASK me! I was chased in the fields quite a bit..lol

I also had a ####ER SPANIEL who was bitten by a rattle snake. BUT she lived thru that.

 

With what ever you can get your hands on at the time.......

 

I've found that a 12 gauge with a full choke gits 'er done.