A Wake Up for Sure!

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Slept in a bit this a.m. Then went out about 10 a.m. to check the water and food for the three big female Great Pyrs at the west side of my home. My south facing veranda is enclosed with arched windows and doors at each end, east and west. I went to that west door which opens in, stepped out, and put my right foot squarely on top of a four and a half foot Western Diamondback curled up against the door.

Yeah, I pulled my foot back really quick and shut the door. Damn! I hadn't had one of these in my yard that I've seen in years but I sure had one now. I went back through my house, out the front, and over to my separate shop door where my gun repair business used to be. I opened the vault and pulled out a Mossberg 12 gauge pump, made sure it was stuffed with Nr 4 Buckshot, and went out the south door of my shop about 15 feet from the veranda door. Sure nuff, my DB was still there so I angled around hoping to not blast my door and went 'BOOM!' at about four feet with the Mossberg. Blew the DB into three pieces, dinged up the threshhold a bit, but didn't damage the door.

Mr. or Ms. DB is now in an empty dogfood bag in my garbage can. Oh well, sure did make my heart go 'pitty-pat' for a few minutes. I've locked assholes with cobras, kraits, mambas, pit vipers, etc., all over this planet but there's just something about a rattler that pegs my pucker meter.

Anyway, my adreniline fix for today and I will now keep the Mossberg handy in the main house......
 
I'm glad you're alright! I'm glad you didn't try to handle it. The untrained shouldn't play with venomous snakes under any circumstances.
 
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That could have ended much worse.

Reminds me of an incident my uncle Jett had at his house one night about 30 years ago. He was carry groceries in one night and thought he must have dropped something because something hit his foot pretty hard. When he got inside there were two holes that didn't go all the way through his leather boot with liquid running from them. When I stopped by the next night the back porch light that hadn't worked in nearly a year was fixed, there was a new gravel walk from the drive way to the steps and I don't think his grass ever got even ankle high ever again...he had been known to let it get pretty high between mowings.
 
I assume you didn't need that second cup of coffee to wake up!

I lived for awhile in the Sierra Foothills of CA. Rattlesnakes were a problem whenever the temperature warmed. I don't mind snakes, but rattlesnakes are a danger. I found No 8 shot worked very well, with less damage to surrounding items. After a few years, there were more snakes, but fewer rattlesnakes. Pigs also do a good job of removing rattlesnakes.

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Same thing happened to me a few days ago. I was on my Golf cart riding my 9 month old Grand Son and we were on a little trail behind my house and I rode by a Eastern Diamond Back Rattle snake. Laying right beside me about a foot from my Golf Cart. He had to have been 5 ft long and as big around as my leg ( pretty big). I took my Grand Son back to my house and grabbed my shot gun but when I got back, he was gone. It took my breath away when I saw him that close to me. I never seen him until I was right beside him. Im in Mississippi. We have alot of Rattle snakes here, but I have never seen one that big. I know how you feel man.
 
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