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Catching a snake in a plastic bottle.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...622#post147515
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...031#post168306
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...510#post139312
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...251#post141954
Great big brass ones! I think I'd have to turn in my Man Card if I were put in that situation. Didn't faze her a bit!
Bill:clapping:
She definitely knows how to handle the situation! Smooth, confident, direct, determined, - makes me think of my own daughters. :) Either one of 'em would do exactly the same!
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That's what we call a 6 quart cobra.
There would be large-sized bullet holes all over if I had to deal with that!
A good sharp machete works very well
Grew up on a ranch with lots of rattle snakes. A hoe with a nice sharp edge and a 6 foot handle was kept near every area where we found them, easy to chop off the head without getting close enough to be bitten.
Otherwise, a shotgun with a load or birdshot, or a pistol with a shotshell cartridge in it were employed.
For that cobra, I think I would go with a 12 gauge and a 1 1/8 ounce of #7.5's from about 10 feet out.
Better anyone eelse but me. Pretty cool young lady. I see her smile.
When I was around 15 I built a volley ball net from used hay bale twine and stretched it between two pine trees in our yard. We lived in the middle of nowhere in BFE Kemper county Mississippi. My cousin, just up the dirt road from me, and I were playing volley ball and the ball fell to the side and I walked over to retrieve it. There to behold was a copperhead, snakes were fair game no matter what they were. We managed to stuff it into a huge glass pickle jar (no plastic containers back then), punched holes in the lid and my cousin Mike took it home and stowed it under his bed. His mom, my Aunt Arlene, found it and had a conniption fit. We were pretty pound of our catch but we didn't do that again....
That's not how I would want to start my day..............
When I first arrived in Montana I became fast friends with a couple of rattlesnake hunters. We would catch dozens on a good day. Since we did not want to damage skins or heads, the snakes were dispatched by snipping the spinal cords with a small pair of scissors through the open mouths, while holding them from the back of the their necks. Learned early on not to ever hold snakes by both hands, since they could then constrict, and pull an end away from your grip... perhaps, leaving the wrong end freely swinging, and knowing you were attached on the other. Happened to the friends' son, who was showing off for a neighbor kid. The snake fought the two-handed grip. Son got excited and released the wrong end. Snake swung around and nailed him on his butt. Fortunately, the rattler had been recently milked, so no significant reaction to the bite.
When we first moved here I would kill 12 to 15 rattle snakes every year right around the house. Not that I cared much for dispatching them I'd rather they stayed in the fields or the woods. I just couldn't abide by them thinking they should be anywhere near the house I have trouble hearing their rattle especially the smaller ones which are more dangerous, and jane has difficulty in seeing them with 1 bad eye it makes it even more difficult for her to see them. but this last year we didn't see smell or hear a single snake of any kind I attribute that to having 4 dogs all of which have been bitten at least once their shots help and a Bottle of Benadryl does the rest A dozen barn cats keep all of the snake's natural food source killed off as well as they will kill smaller snakes themselves. Our small flock of noisy Guinea foul do their job of helping to keep snakes at bay as well. I'd be just as happy to be able to declare my place a snake free zone and maybe I could one day if we decide to get a couple of donkeys and some goats
Who's going to clean up the cobra poo on the step?
Cobra Poo crew of course
yes but this also means they have to hire a cobra poo cleanup crew, as qualified as the lady was at extracting the cobra was, she probably just used a swatch of cloth and wiped it from the step.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
More interesting would be who was going to suture up the cobra's nose after it struck the inside of the container and left the bloody mark
Well...... probably a Cobra snoot and septum suture specialist?
I'll run out of quips soon, promise.
Ovaries of Steel not brass
Would that be Winnie the Poo ???Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51