Here is the crap I have been haveing to deal with

Dont worry about the snake population here. We are eat up with them. I have had to kill them in my back yard before. Kinda scarry having the guys around the house with kids.

DarrylDB
I had some problems earlier this year with my hand. I chopped a few fingers off, which made typing a little hard. I did miss this sight. I have to check in every now and then to see how things are going up North. My brother brought me some Bear he shot in Canada earlier this year. It was great. Im trying to get the money together to get up there with him next year.
 
I stepped on a Black Mamba once, never jumped so high again in my life.
The old man stepped on a 1.5meter Mozambique spitting cobra!
Nasty bastards only good snake is a dead one in my books
 
BIGREDD said:
We have Massasauga Rattlers in Ontario... the highest concentration is in Parry Sound. I saw one while turkey hunting near Kingston.
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We used to see them in the bush ocassionally. They never really bothered with us. It was kind of a treat to see one.

When they built a new subdivision behind my parents house one of my mother's friend's sons got a job with the company that was in charge of leveling the land.

One of the work men was bragging to him that when they found nests that they had unearthed that they would pour diesel on them and burn them.

I don't know how true he was being but it made me sick to my stomach that someone would do that to something that you were not going to eat or was trying to harm you.
 
firstsks said:
We used to see them in the bush ocassionally. They never really bothered with us. It was kind of a treat to see one.

When they built a new subdivision behind my parents house one of my mother's friend's sons got a job with the company that was in charge of leveling the land.

One of the work men was bragging to him that when they found nests that they had unearthed that they would pour diesel on them and burn them.

I don't know how true he was being but it made me sick to my stomach that someone would do that to something that you were not going to eat or was trying to harm you.
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Agree......we must think conservation first when it comes to wildlife including reptiles (yes, venomous ones too :) Snakes have been the cause of anxiety for me on more than one occasion!
 
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burnie000 said:
DarrylDB
I had some problems earlier this year with my hand. I chopped a few fingers off, which made typing a little hard. I did miss this sight. I have to check in every now and then to see how things are going up North. My brother brought me some Bear he shot in Canada earlier this year. It was great. Im trying to get the money together to get up there with him next year.
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####ty Burnie, sorry to hear that. Where you planning on hunting up here in Canada?
 
Gatehouse said:
When I was in Boy Scouts, we used to go on 'SUmmer Hikes" which was 2-3 weeks in the mountians. Our leder was ahard core mountaineer, and he didn't subscribe to the newer Scout doctrine of driving somewhere and setting up camp for a weekend. I learned more about bushcraft from him and that group of scouts than from anywhere else.

Anyway, on one summer camp, I was hiking somewhere in the OK area, and as I was one of the older, stronger kids, I was in the lead.

I ran into a rattlesnake sunning itself on a rock, which quickly coiled up at my approach.

Since I didnt' want to walk by it, and I sure as helel didn't want the younger kids to walk past it, (the leader always took the rear) I decided to kill it

I walked back, found a big stick, and pulled out hte axe

A WHACK witht he stick stunned it, and then I whacked it with the axe, chopping off it's head.

We skinned and ate it, roasted over a fire, and it was pretty good.:)
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I take it the spear was not in use yet, or was it after that incident you decided to carry one from them on? :)
 
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