Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Yes, it was a venomoid. He was at a children's museum in Charlotte. They removed his venom glands in case he ever escaped or employees had to clean the cage, etc. They remodeled the museum and no longer wanted live snakes there so I made a donation and took the old guy. He was happy not to live in a cage with kids smacking the glass all day. He was very very tame and did not want to bite. But he had big fangs still so I kept the kids back.

He bit me once while I was cleaning the cage. I was de-thawing a rat so I washed my hands twice with dawn. It still smelled the rat and bit my arm. Deep tissue infection, but no poison. One bite in ten years. Pretty good snake.

That's good to know, but should you ever decide to walk him in my neighborhood, make sure he's wearing a big sign.
 
As an old artilleryman I believe the technique is called bracketing.


I only did 3 years as an 11C on 60mm, but I believe that is closer to a search and traverse, they are dropping a round turning the deflection wheal a couple of turns dropping another round without leveling the gun back onto to the poles. If I remember right it's a quick way to get a linear spread. TOT is the process where artillery located in various distant areas time their shots based on time of flight so that all rounds land in a given area at the same time. Bracketing is deliberately over or under correcting after a first shot to eventually get on target. To be honest bracketing never made much sense to me, but like I said I was a one termer so maybe I don't understand the finer points. All the other stuff is recalection from 20 yrs ago so I may be completely full of shit:)
 
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