Alan: Now that you said that, I put the first three shots of "rat shot" as we
call them in mine as well, so if I see him again, I have a lot better chance of
hitting him. Course if I weren't shaking like a leaf, I might have hit him
anyway LOL. Thanks, Chuck
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From: Alan Di Somma
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [VFB] HUGE Rattler
Chuck;
The first shot in my ugh is snake shot. Just like a shotgun shell.
Thank you,
Alan Di Somma
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 10, 2012, at 8:07 AM, "Brian Burgess" <brian.burge...@btinternet.com>
wrote:
HAHAHA sounds like you need glasses or shooting lessons Chuck.
If we ever get rattlers over here in England I'll give Jimmy or Dono a call.
My mate is the same, he has a rat problem, they keep getting up on his bird
table so he bought an air rifle to deal with them, reckons he has had about 40
shots and not killed any although a pellet did ricochet off a metal garden
chair and nearly hit his wife in the head so he is getting closer to hitting
something.
Made my day reading your story.
Birdie
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Alexander
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com ; fly fishing for panfish
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:57 AM
Subject: [VFB] HUGE Rattler
Folks: It's the dog days of Summer, and that means (at least around here)
that the snakes are crawling, and are meaner than ever. Yesterday, my son and
grand daughter were walking to the edge of of or property to check on getting a
part off an old Ford we have parked there when they saw a huge rattler gliding
across the yard. They ran up and got me, and wouldn't ya know it but the firing
pin on my shotgun is broken, so I get my 22 magnum pistol and go out there. I
spot him, and you know how ppl are about telling you the size of snakes. It's
like telling you the size of the "fish that got away". But this was one of the
Eastern Diamondbacks you see on the TV shows, as in over 5ft long, and bigger
than my forearm. But the weird thing is, even after I shot (and missed 3 out of
5 times, cause it's hard to hit a snake with an old revolver at 15 yards, cause
that was as close as I was getting LOL). Anyway, through all that, he NEVER
ratted a single time. I shot and missed. I shot again and hit him. He stopped
dead in his tracks and I thought I had heart shot him, cause I knew it was a
"body shot". I shot again, and hit him again. (reason I know is cause after he
had gone, I saw the blood stains on the ground) He still didn't move. His tail
was straight up, and he had 7 or 8 rattles, each at least 3/4" across, but like
I said, they NEVER once rattled. I missed him three more times, and had one
round mis fire before he FINALLY started crawling off VERY SLOWLY. My son in
law had heard the shots and came down with his shotgun, and we went out into
the woods and hunted the snake for 30 minutes or so, but never saw him again.
Man, that really scared me knowing how close he was to my son and grand
daughter. He was a BEAUTIFUL snake as he had JUST shed his skin and his colors
and markings were really bright. But he'll be "dead and beautiful" if I see him
again and hopefully get more shots at him LOL. Anyway, if you live anywhere
that is snake country, this is a bad time of the year, so be on the lookout at
all times. Chuck
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