The Original Old Farts Club

[Africanna]

 

[Africanna]

 

[joeb631a]

 

[RosterMan]

 

[RosterMan]

 

[Unca Walt]

I dunno who Angel Face is on that beach, but it ain't Barbara Eden.

 

[Bubba]

It's me, I waxed the old bikini zone. Hate that rash...and I have small boobs

 

[RosterMan]

Where da white boys at

 

[RosterMan]

I dunno who Angel Face is on that beach, but it ain't Barbara Eden.

It is but if you say it is not that must be true Not LOL

 

[RosterMan]

https://www.moviemarket.com/barbara-eden-175381/

 

[RosterMan]

Joe yep Good movie LOL

 

[pute]

Morning OFC. Gonna be a spooky day..... bewitching day is near and the gools and goblins are already on the move.

 

[dogster]

We doan seem to be gettin' through to dogster. Lemme try again... although I attached the explanation to the video still about whut it wuz I be doin'.

@bigsur51 , you got another snaky encounter mixed in. The guys in the club nicknamed me "Snakebait" (more stories later).

But this is the buzzer (Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake) strike you were thinking of:
View attachment 344593He was shedding (they get nasty then) and I walked by in the swamp with a 50-lb corn sack on my shoulder, so I din' see him. He struck, and got hung on my pantleg. I hadda grab him quick and sling him against a tree. The boys weighed him: 22 pounds.

Awshit. Long as we are at it. I have a video of a coral snake biting my boot (red touches yellow) up at that club. The day after I took the video, I got in my hunting tent blind in the pitch dark and sat in my folding recliner. Sat nice and still until it got light.

By that time, I was a tad stiff, so I swung my feet over onto the ground to stand up. And there was a huge cottonmouth moccasin right between my feeties. He was all wide-open and ready to shoot, so I just quick grabbed him.

Brought him back to camp still alive, and sumbody tooken a pic of me holding the squirming bastage.
View attachment 344594

Right at four feet long.

Strangely, no one in the club would ever go in the woods with me...

I've got another one, but no photos to prove it. So you can believe it or don't. It was crazier than batshit pancakes:

There was a tiny 12" berm at the edge of a pine forest along an open field that wild oinks frequented. It was a really warm day, so I was in shorts, laying there flat behind that berm on nice, dry pine needle ground.

A few minutes later, in the sooper quiet, I heard a light, continuous crackling right behind me. I held real still, thinking maybe it was a turkey (in season!) and that if it went out into the field I could get a head shot with my Weatherby.

The the crackle got not louder, but much closer. I slowly turned my head, and damn' near catted on the spot! It was a huge rattler, and he was within a foot of me! I could not roll away because of that little berm, so I did the only thing I could do: I jumped up, tore my hunting hat off and smacked him with it before he got organized. Of course, the hat didn't hurt him, and he struck -- deflected by my hat again. He bit the hat.

That gave me the chance to grab him. Brought him back to the camp alive, also. Someday, I will tell you the Starkey Story of the ugly little green Two-Steps (Bamboo vipers), dogster.

Odd now that looks like a water bandit.
Edit for I also see you hand is very far back on its neck which definitely would have resulted in a bite from a live just caught wild snake.
Occasionally you find one that doesn't strike on capture........ you must be super brave to risk it like that.

 

[RosterMan]

Odd now that looks li!e a water bandit........when I zoom on its tail I don't see a cut stump or a rattle.
I do see it taper to a point?

Walt said that is a cotton mouth different snake

 

[SubmarineGirl]

my sweet cousins bombed my front porch with beautiful pumpkins. 42 of them actually. I’ve given a few away to the next door neighbors but still feel like sort of a target for mischief. Maybe a pumpkin pie or some pumpkin dog treats are in order this year.

 

[dogster]

Walt said that is a cotton mouth different snake
View attachment 344616

Yes he did I got the stories mixed up.

 

[RosterMan]

Yes he did I got the stories mixed up.

Yes things always get mixed up

 

[giggy]

Morning everybody, we have a big car show today. Gonna be a good walk, gonna take pics too. Yall have a great morning.

 

[WeedHopper]

I've killed snakes all my life. I used a big stick or gun. My balls must be smaller than Walts. I'm not trying the shit he does.

 

[pute]

Another cup before scissor duty. How about all you outdoor growers....harvest time. I haven't heard much talk about harvesting.....growers speak up!