Warning!!!

A while back a biologist that does some contract work for the California State Department of Fish & Game stopped by to talk about guns and such. He came with a warning. While doing some research on rodents he has come across a large number of rattle snake young. He believes that this is due to the mild winter we had this year leading to a larger number of young surviving the winter. I don't know about the rest of the western states but for those living here in California or to those coming for a visit be watchful, BE VERY WATCHFUL. Watch the kids and your pets as it's usually the little snakes that get them. I’ve already killed 9 this year just going to work and around the house. Lawdog

Hey MULESKINNER . . . watch it . . . I'll get my step-son's ATV and go on tour in western Wyoming.  Spook all the deer and a couple of elk too.  LOL!

Well, to the late-informed, I screwed up the whole business on Pocketnavy.  It was always my handle, due mainly to my interest in Civil War handguns [I had a website on them], but I switched servers, had to pick a different handle and Shooters wouldn't change it back . . . said that handle was already in use!  Geez!  No kidding!  So . . . I also use Pocketnavy on BSB and sign my posts on Shooters like I want them.  Need to keep the casual observers on their toes . . . right?  Irritates those who NEED irritated . . . most people just go with the flow.

But, you are in luck, my new puppy is trying to get my attention . . . she is upstairs eating the sofa or something!   Guess I will get off here and let MULESKINNER tell wild tales.  By the way MULESKINNER, what ever happened to that eye-ball we were going to have . . . and the steak dinner?  We ain't THAT far apart.  By the way, don't know about New Hampshire . . . strikes me that it would be hard to hunt with New Yorkers roamin' all over the place in their limos and L.L. Bean jackets! 

Gotta lay some sod, move a plant, and do something useful.  If you need a good rifle MULESKINNER - let me know - Howa has to go.  It's kinda like Monica and the Democrats.  Saw soomething the other day where she said the Democrats leave a bad taste in her mouth!     It's a .30-06 too.  What else is there?

Pocketnavy in Colorado

Haven't heard about a seeding project in East Texas with TP&W. I never saw many rattlers there anyway, but lots and lots of copperheads.

Also haven't heard of any research documenting neurotoxins in rattlesnake venom. Do you have a source, Foxer? I'd be interested in looking at it.

Pocketnavy, no new yorkers come up here and mess around. It is too untamed and the people are too damn poor and dirty. Well, most of them are. I am one of the lucky few where my family is doing alright. The new yorkers are too scared to bring their ll bean everything up here because it is too swampy, and their limos just get gawked at so it scares them away. I have a Grandfather who lives outside nyc, and he hasnt been up this way in 10 years, it displeases him.

NH_Hunter

Triggerguard,

Try going to

http://www.whozoo.org/Intro2000/rickahlg/RICKSRATTLEEXTRACREDIT.html

Well muleskinner, i am personally poor because i dont have a job right now, i have school. and i am dirty right now because i havent taken a shower since this morning.

NH_Hunter

I had the opportunity this past September to hunt dove on some land between a big tailwater pit and some cropland that hadn't been plowed up yet.  To quote Pat Green, it was where "the birds, they flow like wine".  Needless to say, we were all spending a lot of time looking up and not paying too close of attention to our feet.  I was over in some land closer to the tailwater pit, between it and a little ditch full of weeds that ran down into a big hole that normally had water in it, too.  I was scanning the sky back over my right shoulder over the barrel of my shotgun because quite a few birds had been flying in from that direction.  I turned back around and caught some movement out of the corner of my left eye.  Turns out I came waaay too close to stepping on a rattlesnake that was every bit of 4 feet long.  It didn't even have time to shake its rattles before I introduced it to one of my 3.75 dram loads.  Scared the sh*t out of me... mostly for just being a dumbass and realizing a bite would have been my fault for not paying attention to what was going on around me.  Maybe it would have kept going and not payed me any mind, maybe not... but not a chance I was goign to take.  We ended up killing another one about an hour later and less than 50 feet away from the first just before it had a chance to show the lab we were hunting with that it was through with the warnings.