How to deal with snakes sunning themselves on your

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You HAVE to been a little wobbly the first time you did it?

Poor Wabbitt!!!!

Ken ~ you make it sound so easy.... Rattlesnakes? Copperheads? really dangerous snakes.... and you are throwing a jacket over the wriggly creatures and 'scooping them up' what happens if the rattle snake makes a wrong move ?
Just feel it's dangerous. Rabbits? poor things...

We, thankfully don't have snakes here in Ireland, just lizards and they are rarely seen.

Hi Bear..
Although the snake was almost as big as your thumb, be very careful, okaaaaayy!!
Don't consider dangerous things as not a biggie. I don't want something terrible happens to you before you make a will..

How do Ken, sorry I Can't watch your clip my laptop is sick again..but i love snakes, had a pet one once must say he was the best pet i ever owned.. far better than that stupid fool of a

I saw a cop on TV mace a 10 ' black rat snake hanging on the front
porch of a hysterical ladies house.

never spray a rattler or any other venomous snake with mace.

never spray any really big, sluggish looking snake with mace.

Ken I think it's the fact that I wasnot brought up with them. I have gone into pet shops, and trying to get rid of my fear of them, asked if I could hold some...

The owner was extremely kind, but insisted I must not drop the snake.. I would never be cruel to any creature [unless of course it was killing birds or dangerous ].. anyway I did hold a python, quite a large one, and a small albino cream and yellow one, I still cannot stand the sight of them..

Itchy , I know they make nice pets, and they feel warm and dry to the touch... just a phobia I guess.

Ironically, I am not afraid of Rats, as living near a river, my Cats used bring them in dead, or semi dead, as a 'present ' so I am used to them, and have had to lay poison in my attic and living near a river, I see many in my garden. So it's a case of what you were brought up with.

I DO admire your courage . Sad about the Bird house.

Just watching some of your other videos Ken, the one about the rifle is impossible to hear, too much wind.

Hi LonelyLass. Yeah I noticed that. The good news is I lose the wind about the time the shooting begins. Technically that is a Remington Rolling Block. Specifically the Light Baby Carbine variant, although as the below photo implies there is nothing 'baby' about it. Over 50 countries military used the Rolling Blocks. Even the army of the Papacy was armed with Rolling Blocks. A 19th century single shot, black powder weapon, they were reliable and robust enough that some soldiered on through World War One and even in World War Two some saw limited rear echelon use. As late as th 1970s they were still being encountered in conflict zones in the hands of one side or another. They also saw broad use in the American West in the time frame before lever actions dominated and were a popular arm for hunting buffalo. Well over a million were made by Remington and they were copied as well by a half dozen manufacturers. Even today at least two Italian firms still make copies for sporting use. Mine was made for the military of Uruguay in 1888. It was originally in 44-40 caliber, but sometime after 1902 when Uruguay surplused them off when they decided to get 7mm rifles instead, it was rechambered for the metric 11.15x54mm which is a much more potent load holding 68 grains of black powder, vs the earlier load with 40 grains. Also the new chambering is more versatile as it will safely load and fire just about any smaller 44 shell including 44 Magnum, the earlier 44-40 and all the way down to 442 Webley. In 1902 the re-chambering potentially allowed the owner in a pinch to use the same bullet in his rifle as he had in his pistol.

I believe that covers the topics the wind noise droned out. A second video covering the velocity of different pistol bullets through the carbine is plznned but not yet filmed.

My Baby carbine being fired in my back yard 128 years after leaving the factory.