Cool, I did something similar and picked up a cz scorpion carbine on whim and it's a damn fun little blaster. Even with trash wolf ammo, it was put rounds into the size a baseball at 25 yards.
In gold tiger stripe for the win!!!
I had one when I was a kid. I always wished I had it back. I was told by a older man at that time that mine was a military surplus gun because of the steel stock plate. No doubt about that. The bluing was totally worn off. Mine was stamped 1893 on it. It looked just like a 1897 though. I guess some people remember their first girlfriend and first serious shotgun.
I seen a few dead ones of those a while backI was giving you an out man...
Copperheads have a much wider patten, and the usual "Hershey's kiss" design where it is wide at the belly and extremely narrow at the top of the back.
What you have there is a Great Plains Rat Snake.
Being a bit of a snake hater myself I learned which to kill and which to leave alone. I did just kill a cotton mouth two days ago in the swimming hole below the house that the girls were about to jump into...I feel you. Anything that looks like a threat...dies.
Copperhead for comparison, and 99% of them look alike:
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Yeah i have been known to be wrong, i tend to kill em and not think about it too much, but i see the diffefernce now in the pictures. I would rather be corrected and maybe learn something than try to save face with an out. Lol, the color just looked so similar it fooled me without something to compare it to.I was giving you an out man...
Copperheads have a much wider patten, and the usual "Hershey's kiss" design where it is wide at the belly and extremely narrow at the top of the back.
What you have there is a Great Plains Rat Snake.
Being a bit of a snake hater myself I learned which to kill and which to leave alone. I did just kill a cotton mouth two days ago in the swimming hole below the house that the girls were about to jump into...I feel you. Anything that looks like a threat...dies.
Copperhead for comparison, and 99% of them look alike:
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Corn snakes and black snakes are good to have around. I have a 7 foot long black snake that's been living in my garage for several years. The woman has gotten accustomed to it being around. It's the only thing that the dog hasn't killed. He's put his mouth on it and decided that he didn't want to go any further.
Since we're hijacking the shit out of this thread anyway...
In recent years i have stopped trying to kill everything that looks a little creepy and try to keep it to the dangerous or food lol. But at 20 mph on a dirt road every snake looks like a copperhead lol. I wish more threads got interupted with actual information. Thank you. Never know when it may come in handy.
Makes me wonder how many of the "moccasins" i see in ditches are actual moccasins lol... probably less than i think.
I have been looking for that cartoon everywhere. I kept trying to search on it as a Gary Larson far side. Thanks for posting BW
My daughter inherited Grandpa's 100. Solid deer rifle. Brownells makes mags for it.
When I was a lad I would take the black snakes we caught in the hen house and let them loose up the trees with starlings nesting in them, poof no more starling for a bit!
Wow, Winchester 100 semi-autos...you don't see many of those around...unless you come to my house where I have two rifles and two carbines chambered in .284 Win. I guess that I have them just to keep company with my Winchester 88 in .284, my Ruger 77 in .284, my Browning BLR in .284, and my Cooper 52 in .284. Have you ever tried to buy a box of Winchester .284 ammo?? Kinda like trying to find unicorns.
Multiple cannons in the house means you’re either single and have been for a long time, or have the greatest wife in America.
Hell, if we are classifying them as “why” guns. Here’s a couple that clearly fit into that category
I have the same gun, just 50 years younger (anniversary edition)!
at least it aint got the fukin squared trigger guard on it. i’ve only seen one other…as far as i know, the guy still has it. i would have bought it that day, but he already got enough of my money. someday i’ll stop by and see if he still has it.
