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I'd have a heart attack

Last time I saw a water moccasin I shot him at a range of a few feet with an old break barrel 12 gauge I used to have. Needless to say, he won't be trying to bite anyone ever again. My two friends had walked right past the bush he was hanging out in before I started past him but he was just a couple of feet off the trail. Luckily I guess he wasn't in a mood to bite anyone that day.

I hate those darn snakes. There is a large ditch by my folks house and they used to live in there. When I was a kid to cross the ditch from the back of my buddy's house to the bike trail you had to tread carefully.

I was in hog heaven the first time I went up to Washington state and my friend's grand dad told me they did not have any poisonous snakes or spiders.
 
See what happens when bloody snakes are mentioned.
After the last post i took the dog for her morning walk to the corner store to get the paper.
We live on a lake with a path around it. Very nice, lots of ducks and fish, and plenty of kangaroos for her to chase.
There is a little footbridge where the lake overflows in heavy rain and as we came back i look down and there is a brown snake having a camp in the sun.
Lucky no one was in front of me or they would have had size 12 footprints in their back.
And it did happen, as the trusty camera phone came out from as far away as i could get
This one was about 3 foot long but it is still in the top 10 deadly snakes.
OZ has 7 of those 10.
No wonder i get paranoid
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I always kept a shotgun and .22 in the truck, SG for the moccasins and the .22 for the rattlesnakes.

Rattlers never came after me, they'd coil up, ratlle and head off into the bushes. Moccasins on the other hand will size you up and then come all out after yo a$$...they always got dismembered by the 12ga :pbj

I never went out in the woods with a gun of some kind. Even now in KS, I still carry the .45 or .22 whenever I head out into the fields. I've been in KS now for 17 years and have seen prairie rattlers (like a pigmy) only twice, but I'm always prepared. I've had worse luck with those pesky brown recluse spiders!
 
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