Kobra VS Snakehead ala Pappy

Should have hauled out my Rem 1100 when you were by, munk! 19" barrel, interchangeable choke tubes, mag extension just 1/2" short of the barrel, Choate black plastic/nylon (?) fore-end, with pistol grip Choate buttstock. My gunsmith wants to buy it off me!

In khuks, try the Chainpuri's for light and quick. Like the Sirupati's their bend stays straighter than the Cobra's.

And as far as the "old-timers" saying about 1" length to 1 oz. weight, I'm the old-timer that started spouting that rule of thumb. Thanks a lot from the toothless old geezer in Hawthorne.

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The trouble with you as progenator of such knowledge is that it didn't take me and others to see and read the same....therefore, with or without your toothless grin we have the knowledge and the technology to replace you.


Hmmm. How do you storm a small desert hut?

Hey- back to snake defense, it is time to repeat an Epigram, if you'll pardon the pun, that if one buys snake shot in handgun or long gun to prevent being bit you already are. ( By the time you pull the weapon out)

Yet year after year I sold snake shot cartridges in Southern Californian for just such a purpose; coiled snake, about to strike, you pull your .357 out just in time and shoot his head off!! It makes for great drama, but little reality.

Cartridge snake shot is for those times you see a impending problem and wish to remove it. Like a snake around camp or on the trail ahead.

God, I miss the desert.
ANd why not? It was made for munks- everywhere from vehicle you see death death death ahead- wasteland, dry, desolate, vast; but the first step into the desert reveals Life everywhere! And not plush, rain soaked Yuppie life as of the Pacific Northwest, but careful, sparse, rugged, measured life. When water is scarce you see what things are worth. Because water equals life.
 
then why wouls you lighten the forward point even further?

Instead of grinding fullers, you might try some neat row of holes, or alter the hole shapes with a file to give it the fancy 'pierced' look.

Keith
 
then why wouls you lighten the forward point even further?
>>>>> Ferrous

because you can't make it into something it is not.

But I have considered weight off the bolster forward area. This area recieves a lot of stress though-

The bottom line is wherever I remove metal the Kobra will ever be a wood cutter in the same category of most of HI's other khuks.
As for drilling holes- if not done right, it will look exactly like that- 'who put those holes in there?" Plus I'd think holes would weaken it more than lightening cuts.

I am not talking about making fullers.

munk
 
Oh, I thouught "lightening cuts" was munk-speak fer fullers. What, you wanna have lightning bolts cut into the blade? A rreally long FeCl etch might do the trick.

Keith
 
Actual lightening bolts would be great, Ferrous.

How much weight could etching remove, though? I figure if this thing comes out 3 oz lighter I'm in business, and even 2 would help.


munk
 
Ouch Kismet, that is called slam firing and I dont think its very good for the gun, but im not really sure. I love those 97's though, they are rugged and have an interesting history.

I like A5's because they are machined instead of stamped and they stick around forever. I have 3, a 20 ga. from japan (my first shotgun), a light 12 ga. from belgium (my grandpas old one), and a 12 ga. magnum from japan (the duck gun). I just love the old humpbacks.
 
A lot of people couldn't wait to get rid of the humpback and now everyone wants one.

I suspect the real reason it died was manufacturing cost.


munk
 
munk-- I had a thought about lightening up the tip. The spine is fairly soft, so it might be possible to file a distal taper into the spine from the bend out to the tip. It would take a long time if you were doing it by hand, and I don't know how it would turn out, but it might be a possible solution.

--Josh
 
Arizona is snakeworld, yet they are shy and will avoid you if they can. I've rarely seen a rattler, but a Diamonback will definitely get your undivided attention. However, I'll sleep in a bedroll with no tent. I always carry a hiking staff, but for some even 6' is too short. Most bites are because people are messing with a critter that wants to be left alone and will defend itself when it feels threatened. I also carry a 17" Siru, and often a .44 or .45 with a shot shell to lead the volley. I find my Siru faster than my 20" Sher-built Kobra. Heed Yvsa's sage advice: severed heads, and dead snakes have bitten people. I also classify approaching a coiled snake with only an 18"-20" blade, as messing with the snake. Only in defense and as a last resort! You are within their striking range, and they are very, very fast. In the South I found Cottonmouths to be aggressive, and we had a sergeant bitten by a Copperhead, when he didn't look where he put his arm, but the ones I feared the most were those damned little, green, "2-step" bamboo pit vipers in WW-Nam.
 
What I like about the Sonoran Desert in AZ is that after a Monsoon rain, the snakes come out.

Yes, approaching a coiled snake is messing with them. Yes, I believe over 90% of snake bites are booze related handling incidents. Yes, I've read and heard the Cottonmouth is 'assertive'.
edit- I wear a 34" shirt sleeve. With a 20" Kobra extended, I am not within a snakes strike zone.

munk
 
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