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As it turns out, no shots fired, for eventual lack of target.
I responded to screams from the lady friend, who was out in the back pasture just hollering and wailing about ... something.
Then she called me with her cell phone - there's a SNAKE!
Leave it alone.
But the CATS are messin' with it!
(ok, the cats are her babies... )
Whats it look like?
White parts and dark green.
Splotches?
No rings and bands
(I did a quick memory search....)
Any red stuff on it?
Yah, sort of orangy deep or red
Ok... does the white touch red, or black?
(time passes slowly....)
Red white black white red white....
Oh hell, that's a coral snake, don't mess with it! I'll be right down and shoot it.
Well, by the time I got there, like 3 minutes later, KSG off the rack (I keep it ready with buck and bird shot)... the snake was gone.
However... it did turn up again last Friday, and was sorta predestructionated. Pretty bad shape.
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There it is out on the back patio, close to my fireplace.
Generally I'll leave non venomous snakes alone, or even most venomous ones alone if they're a ways out from the house. But ya know, closer in, with the critters we got here, I don't take chances that one of 'em is gonna mess with it and get killed. There is so precious little coral snake antivenom left since they quit making it all together, so there basically is no fix for critters except to quicken things along. Sadly.
Mr Coral Snake was already in a seemingly bad way like someone else got to it with a board or something, so I hastened its journey to the hereafter with a flat shovel upon its head, and gave it a proper cremation.
And no chance to use the KSG. Oh well.
I responded to screams from the lady friend, who was out in the back pasture just hollering and wailing about ... something.
Then she called me with her cell phone - there's a SNAKE!
Leave it alone.
But the CATS are messin' with it!
(ok, the cats are her babies... )
Whats it look like?
White parts and dark green.
Splotches?
No rings and bands
(I did a quick memory search....)
Any red stuff on it?
Yah, sort of orangy deep or red
Ok... does the white touch red, or black?
(time passes slowly....)
Red white black white red white....
Oh hell, that's a coral snake, don't mess with it! I'll be right down and shoot it.
Well, by the time I got there, like 3 minutes later, KSG off the rack (I keep it ready with buck and bird shot)... the snake was gone.
However... it did turn up again last Friday, and was sorta predestructionated. Pretty bad shape.
There it is out on the back patio, close to my fireplace.
Generally I'll leave non venomous snakes alone, or even most venomous ones alone if they're a ways out from the house. But ya know, closer in, with the critters we got here, I don't take chances that one of 'em is gonna mess with it and get killed. There is so precious little coral snake antivenom left since they quit making it all together, so there basically is no fix for critters except to quicken things along. Sadly.
Mr Coral Snake was already in a seemingly bad way like someone else got to it with a board or something, so I hastened its journey to the hereafter with a flat shovel upon its head, and gave it a proper cremation.
And no chance to use the KSG. Oh well.
