Snake Charmer!

Found this lethal fellow while mowing my yard and used my .380 to dispose of it. He was not a happy camper. I really love that laser site. BTW for all you nature lovers this is a dead copperhead. I don't kill harmless snakes but I'm not going to step on one of these guys at night where I normally run around in my underwear. ;D

 

This one has me confused, and I am not sure I want to know... :-/

DaveNC, is that a Nemesis, or a SuperFly? How is the fit with the laser?[/quote]


The holster is a De-Santis Nemesis. When I got the laser last week I had to have my wife modify the holster in order for the laser to fit. It didn't take her that long, but now it fits perfectly! BTW she had to do the modification by hand because her machine would not sew through the material.

 

It was $165 including shipping. Best deal I could find on it and it was delivered to my house priority mail.

 

I use the Federal Hydra shock. I'm gonna get me a couple of chickens in the near future to try the rounds out on. I'd like to see how the round expands in living tissue instead of dead meat. I suspect the blood and other liquids inside a live animal will have much different results then dead meat. I've got a couple of idea's on how to restrain the chickens to set two of them up in parallel so I can recover the spent round. I'll post the results unless it's not politically correct to do so.

 

He was more in the 18" range. He was on his way into the woods when I came up him on the lawn mower. I didn't want him to get away so I used my boots to **** him off a bit so he'd coil up. Then I yelled for the wife to get the .380. He was really ****ed and did a bit of striking before I ended his life long career as a snake.

I've lived in my house for 20 years now and have had 3 of them bad boys come a calling on my property. One of them my wife stepped on while she was getting the mail! She felt something roll under her foot as she walked passed the mail box and turned to see a copper head. It was a dam huge one and had been in a few battles. He was actually missing one eye. My wife knew as soon as she felt the snake roll under her foot what it was, so her next step was fast and long to avoid getting bit. She was a bit surprised when she turned to see a copperhead.

 

They might be, but I'd have to be pretty damn hungry to eat one. There just isn't that much meat on them. I caught one at night one time and stuck him in a milk jug so I could tan his hide. He had just been run over by a car but was still pretty lively when I was sticking him in the milk jug. When I skinned him it was pretty evident that the meat was pretty sparse on him and wasn't worth eating unless you were starving.

When I was in the 82nd Airborne back in 75 we went to Eglin airforce base on bivouac to build a drop zone for the grunts to jump into and one of the guys had a run it with a huge diamond back. He had a bucket loader so the diamond back didn't put up much of a fight, but damn that snake had a LOT of meat on it. If I remember right we did cook up some of it. I ended up being the one who skinned it so I remember the amount of meat it had. She was a pregnant female and was about 7ft long. Like I said it was big *** viper. I had my first run in with a corral snake down there as well. I tried to catch him live but dam that was the toughest and the most wigglely little snake I've ever encountered. I ended up having to just letting him go to avoid getting bit. FYI, I've been catching snakes since I was 5 years old. Even kept a few pets over the years.