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    Mgderf

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    I have been staging materials for a shoot shack on my property for the last year or so.
    Cut offs, left over lumber, steel siding, 1/2 box of nails... anything and everything that I can use to build.
    Today I decided to use some of what has been stacked and covered for some time.
    I picked up a couple of dozen 2x4x12's and then moved a couple of sheets of corrugated steel when this guy popped out.
    He was pissed, and tried striking at me several times.
    Roughly 18"-24" long and madder than a wet hen.

    I shooed him off into the woods and continued my building.
     
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    Mgderf said:
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    I have been staging materials for a shoot shack on my property for the last year or so.
    Cut offs, left over lumber, steel siding, 1/2 box of nails... anything and everything that I can use to build.
    Today I decided to use some of what has been stacked and covered for some time.
    I picked up a couple of dozen 2x4x12's and then moved a couple of sheets of corrugated steel when this guy popped out.
    He was pissed, and tried striking at me several times.
    Roughly 18"-24" long and madder than a wet hen.

    I shooed him off into the woods and continued my building.
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    Corn snake?
     
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    And I probably would've wet myself had it been me

    Actually, most likely not. Was fishing 15 or 20 years ago, kind of out in the country along a main road, walking thru the rip-rap next to this bridge, and for whatever reason decided to look down, and there in between my feet was about a 2 1/2' copperhead all coiled up gettin' some sun. I slowly proceeded forward a few feet and then turned around to look and he was long gone. Continued fishing for another hour or two then headed home...
     
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    About 20 years ago I heard several pistol shots next door. My neighbor was shooting at a large rattle snake in her back yard but wasn't having any luck connecting. I loaded a Security Six with CCI 38 spl snake shot and from a distance of about 6 or 7 feet shot the snake. I had never used snake shot before and didn't know what to expect. The snake was coiled up and rattling to beat the band. When I fired, the snake's head just evaporated. Haven't seen a rattler since I moved to Indiana ten years ago, but I still keep CCI snake shot loads in 38 spl and 45 Colt, just in case.
     
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    Donovan48 said:
    About 20 years ago I heard several pistol shots next door. My neighbor was shooting at a large rattle snake in her back yard but wasn't having any luck connecting. I loaded a Security Six with CCI 38 spl snake shot and from a distance of about 6 or 7 feet shot the snake. I had never used snake shot before and didn't know what to expect. The snake was coiled up and rattling to beat the band. When I fired, the snake's head just evaporated. Haven't seen a rattler since I moved to Indiana ten years ago, but I still keep CCI snake shot loads in 38 spl and 45 Colt, just in case.
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    If by shooing you mean shooting… I’m there, don’t like snakes, don’t want snakes around, except corn snakes in a barn.. but I’m still leery….
     
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    Donovan48 said:
    About 20 years ago I heard several pistol shots next door. My neighbor was shooting at a large rattle snake in her back yard but wasn't having any luck connecting. I loaded a Security Six with CCI 38 spl snake shot and from a distance of about 6 or 7 feet shot the snake. I had never used snake shot before and didn't know what to expect. The snake was coiled up and rattling to beat the band. When I fired, the snake's head just evaporated. Haven't seen a rattler since I moved to Indiana ten years ago, but I still keep CCI snake shot loads in 38 spl and 45 Colt, just in case.
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    I popped a rattler with a 22 out in Yellowood some number of years ago. They are very intimidating when you aren't expecting them.
     
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    Was stacking rocks to make weirs in my creek this spring... had been at it for a couple weeks... finally one day, picked up a rock with a sleeping water snake under it... Started carrying a rake to move the rocks.

    Got a dry bite years ago from something near our pond. Never saw what it was because the weeds were waist high.
     
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    Had the same problem a few days back. Buddy was building a roof for a dog house and moved a few pieces of paneling, there sat two corn snakes. Had me come over and blast em. Now the little .22 has two confirmed kills!
     
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    I would have screamed like a six year old girl. **** that.

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