I was bitten by a copperhead moccasin when I was a child. I hate snakes as well. When I was a teenager I worked on a fish farm where part of my job included killing snakes. Years later I owned a NAPA Auto Parts and new owner of that fish farm contacted me and asked if I would consider coming to help reduce the the now out of control snake population. Apparently the workers would refuse to go into the water to harvest the fish with snaked swimming all around. I agreed to if he would pay me $1 per snake and he would provide the .410 ammo. He reluctantly aggreed but said that I would need to bring the dead snakes up to the hatchery. I said no problem. I attached a large fish hook with the barb hammered down onto a long bamboo pole in order to retrieve the dead snakes. So armed with my .410 single-shot Stevens shotgun, a headlight, a few 5 gallon buckets, and the pole I asked a friend to go to carry the bucket and retrieve the snaked from the water. We waited until a couple of hours after dark to go. Before I tell you how many snakes I killed those two nights you need to know there were 74 ponds on that fish farm. The first night after walking around those 74 ponds scattered over two hundred acres produced 158 dead snaked. The next night 147. I don't remember how many buckets of dead snakes we carried to the hatchery but there were many. Killing 150 a night may seem like an impossibility but if you do the math we were only killing 2 or 3 per pond.The farm manager called and said I could come by and pick up my check, he thanked me and said my services would no longer be needed. This was 1977, $305 was a lot of money then. LOL I was too productive apparently. Yes John, I hate snakes, but the funny thing about it is out of all 305 snakes there were no poisonous snakes killed.
That’s a fantastic story, Dan! I don’t know if I could take on a job like that. Got to have superior alertness over them slithering demons. I’ve killed 3 copperheads around our house, 2 of them to save my little dog that don’t know any better to leave them alone.
Today is my 26th birthday, so my buddy is coming over to do some shooting meet the new pup and maybe throw some darts.Definitely gonna get a pizza, and possibly watch Quigley down under.Any birthday gifts have already been received aside from the one I bought myself which is scheduled to arrive tomorrow.
Happy Birthday David!!! Wish you many more!
Happy Birthday! A young pup.
Quote from: Jshooter71 on January 06, 2021, 01:42:56 PMHappy Birthday David!!! Wish you many more!Quote from: Chris USA on January 06, 2021, 02:04:46 PMHappy Birthday! A young pup. Happy Birthday David, 26 huh? I have socks older than that. LOL
Quote from: Lt. Dan on January 06, 2021, 02:19:58 PMQuote from: Jshooter71 on January 06, 2021, 01:42:56 PMHappy Birthday David!!! Wish you many more!Quote from: Chris USA on January 06, 2021, 02:04:46 PMHappy Birthday! A young pup. Happy Birthday David, 26 huh? I have socks older than that. LOLWow I think my oldest socks may be 15 years old? MAX!
Dan,Not like I would tell you anything new,...but I had a TX200 in .22 and it took a deliberate (full) pull to get the safety to set 100% of the time. I do not have it anymore and I think it got less finicky over time,... but that is what I had to do.
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