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VMI77 wrote:I only shoot pit vipers (in our area I've never seen any pit viper but a copperhead) in the area where our dogs roam. I don't shoot snakes on other parts of the property where they are not an immediate threat to my dogs.... within yards of the house and encountered as many as five copperheads at one time pretty close together.

Yikes I have to take-back most everything I said!

We see a rattler a year maybe, have never seen a copperhead up here (just one exotic, a coral snake) and have one dog who doesn't roam much. Carry On VMI77!!!

Cedar Park Dad wrote:

VMI77 wrote:Where I live out in the country I just don't go outside without being armed, especially during snake season. Since I'm on my own property and not visible from any public location, I can open carry. I often carry a Judge for snakes and something else for self-defense.

Now that I can understand.

And honestly I do not, at least not for snakes. We're remote/country too, and have had numerous experiences with rattlesnakes, most where we spotted them and either got a gun and shot them or just coaxed it to slither away, and one where my wife actually got struck (from behind; no she hadn't seen it before it hit) at the boot-top, where thankfully the venom/fangs didn't make it past her blue jeans. In none of these situations have I felt like "I wished she (or me) had been carrying".

Maybe VMI77 is out & about on a very large tract of land though, where it'd be very inconvenient to go back to the ranch house to get a weapon.

As demanding as most of the physical work is that I do around here, it really is sorta inconvenient to strap-on a sidearm too. But I'm thinkin' on it now!