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  • From: sanrico AT highdesert.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Snake-jitsu (was Gunbelts)
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:57:16 +0000 (America/Los_Angeles)

As always, James, when you take time to get into a subject, it is not only
educational, but quite entertaining. Thank you.
Perhaps we need to compile a glossary of terms specific to the list, starting
with 'mano-a-fang', and 'TajMahen'?!
Sandy


On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:09:29 EDT, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

>
> I am as much a gun aficionado as any other crusty backwoodsman, but having
> gone mano-a-fang with a great number of pit vipers, I have to question the
value
> of firearms against our legless antagonists.
>
> This year has been a very light pit viper season with only two having to be
> sent to be with their ancestors. Some seasons it's near fifty. If you are
> in
> immediate danger of being attacked by a snake, a pistol is useless. A
> snake
> is deadly quick. So we are talking about removing a snake from an area
> where
> you'd rather not step on it later by accident and there aren't many good
> ways
> of doing that besides killing it,
>
> Snakes aren't very sturdy, it takes very little to kill one. Of course,
> they
> don't immediately know they are dead. You can cut the head off a
> copperhead
> and then pick up the rest of the snake by the tail and headless snake will
> attempt to get away, and failing that, it will attempt to bite you. The
> brain
of
> a snake seems to be optional equipment.
>
> I've found a long stick to be a much better weapon than a gun. A hoe or
> shovel is ideal and one or the other is almost always in hand when I
> encounter
> the
> snakes. Once you are eyeball to eyeball with a snake, it helps to speak a
> little snake, be a Parselmouth. A pit viper can't see very well and depend
> on
> heat detection to tell where prey or threats are. They don't percieve a
> stick
> or hoe as living, and so it's not a threat. They don't coil in a loop, of
> course, to strike but make an 'S' shape. From that position they can
> strike a
> few inches longer than the lenght of the snake. If the snake sees your
> shadow
> coming toward it, it will stop and defend itself. If it sees your shadow
> going
> away, it will flee.
>
> Ready the weapon and if the snake turns to flee, strike it sharply and it
> is
> immediately in the next world. If the snake remains "coiled" strike it
> between mid-snake and the tail. If it lives, it will immediately uncoil
> and try
> to
> flee and you dispatch it then.
>
> I hate that it has to happen, but any chance that a child will enounter
> that
> particular snake in the garden is too great a chance. My apologies to the
> sanke, but better luck in the next life.
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