He's Baaack!
From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
--Traditional Scottish Prayer
Happiness is a warm gun,
Yes, it is
--Happiness is a Warm Gun, The Beatles
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie,
O, what panic's in thy breastie!
I'm truly sorry Man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union
--To a Mouse, Robert Burns
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Going through his mail upon return, Ranger noted the above Bond Arms ad in his Dillon Blue Press. Aside from the obvious and absurd phallic aggression, he observes: the denizens of the Christian gun world feel that God has given them dominion over the animals, and that makes the world a free fire zone.
He says gun magazines are filled with photos of limp-dicked individuals holding up bloodied things they've just killed. He doesn't accept a Christian's or a gunnie's right to kill indiscriminately. For example, the rattlesnake in the ad is in its normal habitat, and is not doing anything except existing. Why can't the billy bad ass with the pistol simply bypass the snake and allow it to do what snakes do? That is live and let live.
Rattlesnakes are not killed unless they are in the yard. In the woods, rattlesnakes are bypassed and avoided.
This is Ranger's concept of professional courtesy.
Labels: bond arms ad, gung ho hunters
posted by rangeragainstwar at 5:46 PM
10 Comments:
for rattlesnake in the yard removal (remember they are absolute hell on gophers), i recommend that one use a simple tigger grabber like can be found at any decent hardware/pharmacy/big box store. they are long enough that they can keep the snake at a safe distance as long as you get within 12" of the head. then, with a nice gentle toss toward cover they will haul their snake ass the hell away from you most ricky tick.
MB,
I threw a snake exactly as you described and when it hit the ground it oriented itself and proceeded to scat right back to the area under my old house.I went about 100 meters from the house to toss it, this I found quite amusing.
Snakes often get in my chicken nests , under a sitting hen and eat eggs.I always check before gathering eggs.
I simply bypass rattlers , if at all possible.I've had horses and dogs bitten that were easily treated-more or less but cats seem to die very easily from snake bite.
I,ve actually run people off my land b/c they followed rattlers off the hiway and they wanted to shoot them.Imagine that! jim
yeah, i lost a cool ass barn cat to snake a couple springs ago.
a little known factoid:
rattlesnake antivenin is essentially horse plasma. horses can develop an immunity to snakebite. a vet draws a pint of horse blood, centrifuges out the plasma, it's then freeze dried and booya, serum.
i found that out after i adopted my last mustang. the vet asked if i was registered as a plasma source and gave me the run-down on the procedure.
in domestic horses immunity can be induced by giving plasma to the horses. my arabs are now plasma donors.
the vet said that mustangs, by their definition have high levels of antibodies already present. they are favorite sources for western doctors.
It's good to have ya back, Jimmy. I concur with your assessment on Nature, guns and Christians.
MB,
I had a cat snake bit and it died, BUT it's being bitten pointed out the rattler next to my dogs auto waterer. The snakes come up in dry times. The cat saved my bacon but it ran off after being bitten and I later found its remains.
jim
Thanks, M.Celt.
Professional courtesy.I like that notion.
I've only had to kill a rattlesnake once, when it decided it wanted to bed up under my tent while I was backpacking in the Superstition Wilderness and refused to be dissuaded. I am sorry, I simply will not share a tent with a rattlesnake, that does not fall under the "professional courtesy" standard.
Other than that, when me and snakes spot each other, we typically stop, look at each other, and then we both skeedaddle in opposite directions :-). I once had a snake curled up right in the middle of a trail rattling at me, but after I backed off, it just plopped off the trail and went its own way. There was no need to kill that snake so I didn't.
But then, the only weapon I carry on these trips is a flimsy aluminum trekking pole (think ski pole) and my brains, which are sufficient for devising weapons from whatever is at hand if needed (such as the metal fence post and rocks used to dispatch the snake above). Thus far that has been enough. I simply cannot fathom people with so little courage that they feel they must carry heavy artillery everywhere in case they encounter a snake or other wildlife. It just reinforces the notion in my mind that the USA has become a nation of cowards so scared of everything that it is willing to shoot up the entire world if that will make it feel "safe" for a while.
The derringer's cool, but the boy forgot his handcuffs, Range; necessary for future wars of empire.
badtux,
God gave us brains and the snake fangs; too bad we don't use our brains as well as the snake uses its fangs.
Snakes are always glad to get away from people. I share that characteristic with them. Hence, the professional courtesy.
Our unreasonable fear of snakes arises from Biblical propaganda fed to us since childhood.
coyote and kesh (rattlesnake)
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