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Watch those fingers when scavenging for brass.

Years back, read an article in an Outdoor Mag about dealing with snake bites.
Electric spark like from a spark plug or coil wire applied to a bite does something to the molecular structure of the venom.
Not sure what's worse, snake bite or getting ZAPPED by a plug or coil wire. Lost lots of hide on my hands from that.
I showed that article to an ER doctor friend. Never saw that magazine again. :(
 
NorCalMikie said:
Years back, read an article in an Outdoor Mag about dealing with snake bites.
Electric spark like from a spark plug or coil wire applied to a bite does something to the molecular structure of the venom.
Not sure what's worse, snake bite or getting ZAPPED by a plug or coil wire. Lost lots of hide on my hands from that.
I showed that article to an ER doctor friend. Never saw that magazine again. :(
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It’s funny you said that because a friend of mine just told me a story within the last year related to that. His uncle had a bird dog that had gotten bit by a copperhead and was really swollen up and appeared that the dog wasn’t going to make it. His uncle called him and his father to come over and help him. His father held the dog while his uncle held the spark plug wire on the bite and he pulled the rope on the push mower. The dog recovered overnight
 
I walked downrange to put up new targets and walked back to the firing line to notice a timber rattler coiled up next to my camo range bag laying on the ground. It blended quite well, but it takes a dumb snake to hang out at the gun range. It ended up being right at 5' long and had 13 rattles and the button.
 
drop_point said:
I walked downrange to put up new targets and walked back to the firing line to notice a timber rattler coiled up next to my camo range bag laying on the ground. It blended quite well, but it takes a dumb snake to hang out at the gun range. It ended up being right at 5' long and had 13 rattles and the button.
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That’s a big one! How did it taste?o_O
 
Not long ago, I spotted a rather large brass case in the grass.
I picked it up and had one big and black hairy spider come out
to say howdy.....Them wolf spiders do bite if you give them the
right opportunity.
 
C'mon Guys . Ben Avery was built out in the middle of nowhere , way out of Phoenix . Now Phoenix has come to Ben Avery , and the local residents are looking for a place to live .
You can find snakes almost anywhere here , because the city grew so fast , in all different directions at the same time . It's THEIR Desert . We just get to use it , so when "visiting" your neighbor's backyard , look ! They were here first .
 
When I was working in the woods I was aware of the rattle snakes and had seen enough of them to be cautious.
On this occasion I was checking the condition of an old logging road to see what it would take to make it useable again. Anyway I came on this washout and before I jumped down to cross it I checked the gravel bed for snakes. It looked good to me so I jumped down and almost landed on a good-sized gopher snake. Had it been a rattler it would have bit me for sure, so now I'm really spooked....how could I miss that? From that point on I had snake on the brain and while walking a section of the road covered with tall grass I stepped on a small curved tree limb which popped up and scared the shit out of me. I yelled and jumped all at the same time. Pretty embarrassed afterwards.....glad no one was there to see it.
Mort
 
Yep...learned that lesson about looking before you reach when I was 13 (1963). My family was camping at Robbers' Cave State Park in Oklahoma when my brother and I chased a lizard into a hole in a dry creek bank. Started to reach in to grab it and noticed a large black spider with a red hourglass on its belly just inches from that lizard. We decided we didn't really want that lizard that bad.
 
durand mortenson said:
When I was working in the woods I was aware of the rattle snakes and had seen enough of them to be cautious.
On this occasion I was checking the condition of an old logging road to see what it would take to make it useable again. Anyway I came on this washout and before I jumped down to cross it I checked the gravel bed for snakes. It looked good to me so I jumped down and almost landed on a good-sized gopher snake. Had it been a rattler it would have bit me for sure, so now I'm really spooked....how could I miss that? From that point on I had snake on the brain and while walking a section of the road covered with tall grass I stepped on a small curved tree limb which popped up and scared the shit out of me. I yelled and jumped all at the same time. Pretty embarrassed afterwards.....glad no one was there to see it.
Mort
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I squeak like a little girl embarrassing for sure but earned
 
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