It seems unfair that snakes can climb. Is it not enough that they slither quickly and swim like water serpents?
This past weekend the Old Flesh and Blood and several of his hunting club members had a workday on the plantation. This time of the year that means a circuit of the existing tree stands to check for needed repairs or maintenance.
The OFB, despite a spot of arthritis and near septuagenarian status, climbed one of the stands to its platform some sixteen feet off of the ground. To his surprise, but not delight, he was met there by a coiled and alert eastern diamondback rattlesnake sitting in the back corner. He hollered down to the hunters on the ground and they tossed a handgun up to him. BANG. He got the ### snake off his ## # treestand.
The pistol turned out to be a .410 (a bore size and not a gauge as you may know and may care). In other words, this handgun uses shotgun shells -- a fact not anticipated by our shooter in this case who was quite focused on the snake. It short, the pistol kicked like a mule and caused an injury to his trigger finger. After a search they found part of the snake (tail with rattles) nearly fifty feet away. High brass shells at near point-blank range will do that to a snake up in the air, won't it?!
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