HERE SNAKIE...SNAKIE..pic!

[Sasha and Abby]

Damn shame about the chicken snake. They must have been real proud...

[Delta Duck]

What I should of asked was how many holes did they shoot in the barn before they shot the chicken snake!

I walked over to my 9 year old baby girl last weekend while she was playing in our fish cooler. I looked down and she had caught her a water snake and was so happy with her self. That was the first snake besides garter snakes she has ever caught and held. I don't touch none of them except with a 20 gauge. She learned all that snake catching from her brother. She can identify cottonmouths and copperheads. She's a true country girl! To much of one really!

[jdbuckshot]

all this over a snake?




huh

[Po Monkey Lounger]

Just wondering how some of you pussies feel about killing spiders? Personally, I kill every one in or around my home or camp that I see ---but, thats just me ----don't really care for them ---ditto snakes, rats, mice, wasps, and pretty much any insect, rodent, lizard or serpent.

Just remember, for every snake you kill, there are multiple critters dancing with joy for ridding them of such terror. For every spider that dies, there is a happy cricket or two. For every bird that dies, the beatles and worms are pitching a wang dang doodle. One critters demise is another's salvation. Not really sure where I am going with this, other than to demonstate the absurd by being absurd.

The lesson for today? Stop being such a wuss. Shoot that thang!!!!!!!

[Seymore]

".....He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel." Genesis 3:15

I figure God said get 'em. Don't know what the kuran has to say about it. Maybe Benny can tell us.

[MSDuckmen]

The lesson for today? Stop being such a wuss. Shoot that thang!!!!!!!

Not sure what to think about that statement PO Monkey...

Seems to me it takes a better man to just pass on by. It's easy to kill, harder to admire and walk past.

JMO

[Po Monkey Lounger]

I ain't scared of any of these critters I listed ---just don't want them in my home/camp or in my yard. And don't need no wittle wuss wike you tellin me otherwise. Poor wittle snakies? Shoot dat thang!!!!

And you are a fine one to talk ----YOU BEAVER MURDERER!

[Po Monkey Lounger]

Dan, don't get me wrong, I don't kill any animal for the hell of it ---nor do I kill any game animal that I do not intend to eat. That is much more than I can say for some on this board. Don't think too much of folks that do such (ie slaughtering a bunch of snow geese with no intent to eat or for anyone else to eat --just to let them rot ---or shooting a deer just for the rack). If yer gonna kill it, you need to grill it.

However, I just do not see the harm in protecting one's home/camp and yard/grounds from snakes and such ---regardless of whether they are poisonous, etc. I don't personally go into the wild looking for snakes to kill or anything else for that matter, unless it is hunting season and I am hunting legal game in season. Just think that some folks are making too much of a big deal out of the snake this young man killed. I tried making this point with a little humor ---perhaps I just should have been more direct. Starting to sound like a PETA chapter meeting around here.

[SoftCall]

Sheesh...give those boys a friggin break! How many snakes did MOST of you kill when you were 15? I can't even count....

[Deltaduk]

could have been worse,they could have been out running around doing drugs, riding around listening to some some god awful rap music or silly $#!+ like that.

[BAY KINGFISHER]

Hey I bet little indian boys probably killed snakes on that same dirt hundreds of years ago, its because humans have primal instincts to kill or be killed. Then one day their indian fathers tell them dont kill that snake because they eat the rats that get in the food, so the kids take up bigger game and forget about the snakes. We have all been their, so now you have to teach them how I was taught, we dont kill it unless we intend to eat it. Teach your kids this rule and they will mature to better sportsman. Teach them difference between good and poisinous, catch some for them to put there hands on, put them in aquarium, feed them, then make them let em go. Thats how I was raised, I dont have a fear of snakes now, I dont need to kill them , and I always like to teach people about them. Now if I feel one is in a place to close for confort I'd take him out. No different than one being in the teepee hundreds a years ago.
Just my thoughts.. and I liked the picture kind of reminded me of the care free days of youth.......

[tunica]

I agree there kids there Balls are bigger than their brains at the moment neither being the size they'll be once they growup somemore. Think some said if you kill it eat it.. I agree seen to many on the high dollar deer leases kill does cause they had to just to leave them hanging in the meat locker. Killed Bucks only to mount the head and leave the rest in the meat locker, oh yea most say I'm letting the meat age I'll come get it in a couple days.

[RIP EM]

Whatcha mean by,... when you were 15 years old !?!?

I shot a Chicken snake bout 3 weeks ago ! I'm 38 !
When I looked up on the tree, and he was about 2 feet away from my wood duck box, (which later put 21 baby woodies in the flyway), I figured to heck with him !

Let me also say, I didn't give the sporting chance of a 20 ga.,.... I hammered him with a 12 !

NOW I JUST GOTTA ASK ALL THE "BLEEDING HEARTS" OUT THERE,... WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE ???

Rip Em !

[Don Miller]

I agree Monkey. Ole Benny's home must look like a biosphere with all of the roaches, spiders, snakes and rats running around. My goodness, I never knew there were so many snake lovers on this board.

[MMallard]

I stomp the swamps regularly and woe be unto the slope shoulders that crosses my path....like mama always said a good snake is a dead snake.