We Grow them Big in Texas

[Red Leg]

Since the weekend of the fourth, we have been putting in long days cleaning up from the flood. This big fellow came boiling out of a debris pile yesterday evening. Out hunting I leave them alone, but here on the place with dogs and in this case Mrs. Red Leg standing twenty feet away, we put diamondbacks down when we see them. While Nancy beat a somewhat hasty and expletive laden retreat, I managed to pin him with the grapple on the tractor and then applied two rat shot loads to the business end.

 

[DieJager]

Nice. Now the difficult question, European mount, shoulder or full mount?

 

[Spearhead]

Nice 357. Did you at least keep the buttons?

 

[VertigoBE]

I keep on being amazed by the liberty you have on your own property in the US. In Europe, discharging a firearm in your own garden, would get you swat helicopters in no time.

 

[Red Leg]

Nice 357. Did you at least keep the buttons?

It is the perfect ranch handgun. It is the S&W titanium and scandium Mountain Light Revolver. I keep five 110 gr 38+P rounds in it and two rat shot. It weighs nothing on my hip (19 ounces) and because this isn't grizzly country, the 110s are perfect for any four, two, or no-leg issues that might develop when working our place.

I did fire exactly one 154 gr 357 round out of it, and immediately decided 38+Ps were a perfect load.

And no, I haven't kept rattles in many years.

 

[Red Leg]

I keep on being amazed by the liberty you have on your own property in the US. In Europe, discharging a firearm in your own garden, would get you swat helicopters in no time.

We do live 15 miles from town on forty acres.

 

[pilar]

It is the perfect ranch handgun. It is the S&W titanium and scandium Mountain Light Revolver. I keep five 110 gr 38+P rounds in it and two rat shot. It weighs nothing on my hip (19 ounces) and because this isn't grizzly country, the 110s are perfect for any four, two, or no-leg issues that might develop when working our place.

I did fire exactly one 154 gr 357 round out of it, and immediately decided 38+Ps were a perfect load.

And no, I haven't kept rattles in many years.

I really like a 357 loaded with 38 +p ammo also , when I lived on the Rio grande
I loaded up exactly like you do 2 snake shot , followed by some 110gr
My buddy holding a specimen we found

 

[Altitude sickness]

The skins make great backings for osage self bows. Two of many I’ve made. I have to source them from the south. Luckily

 

[Muskox]

Nice work.

When I saw the title, I figured it was a fat girl joke. I lived in Waco, San Marcos and near El Paso. They grow them big, has an entirely different meaning to me.

El Paso get's a lot of 5'1 really nice looking hispanic girls with painted on clothing, and tons of make up. Even if a few pounds over weight.

 

[thoma018]

Those are nice little revolvers; I have carried similar lightweight model (642- 5 shot) with two rat/snake shot and 3 110's behind those. I can only carry two snake shot loaded because after two rounds of snake shot (CCI) the 3rd one (snake shot) binds the cylinder because the recoil from 1st and 2nd rounds has pushed the plastic shot capsule forward. Have you run into this problem ?

 

[RR 314]

I really like a 357 loaded with 38 +p ammo also , when I lived on the Rio grande
I loaded up exactly like you do 2 snake shot , followed by some 110gr
My buddy holding a specimen we found View attachment 704225

Haaaaaa. Small world. I know him as well in ATX. Big rattle bug.

 

[RR 314]

I was overgunned on this one. .480 Ruger messed up my taxidermy options.

 

[Brent in Az]

2 shots of snake loads.....AKA......"The Texas 2 step".
Nothing will get the heart pumping like a snake coming out of a brush pile
I've had many rattlesnake encounters in southern Arizona, but the majority of them were typically between 3' and 4'.
Saw a photo of one from the Bloody Basin north of Phoenix that was in the 7' range.
No thanks.

 

[Red Leg]

I really like a 357 loaded with 38 +p ammo also , when I lived on the Rio grande
I loaded up exactly like you do 2 snake shot , followed by some 110gr
My buddy holding a specimen we found View attachment 704225

That is a beast. It is built like one of the big Eastern Diamondbacks. And why I wear the tallest snake boots I can find while hunting quail. Let him go?

 

[SETH RINGER]

NO RATTLERS HERE IN COSTA RICA BUT OUR CORAL SNAKES ARE WAY BIGGER THAN I EVER SAW IN FLORIDA.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

So rattler stew tonite?

 

[cwpayton]

I really like a 357 loaded with 38 +p ammo also , when I lived on the Rio grande
I loaded up exactly like you do 2 snake shot , followed by some 110gr
My buddy holding a specimen we found View attachment 704225

da da dang, what a skin ! make some chaps covering and hat band!

 

[cwpayton]

It is the perfect ranch handgun. It is the S&W titanium and scandium Mountain Light Revolver. I keep five 110 gr 38+P rounds in it and two rat shot. It weighs nothing on my hip (19 ounces) and because this isn't grizzly country, the 110s are perfect for any four, two, or no-leg issues that might develop when working our place.

I did fire exactly one 154 gr 357 round out of it, and immediately decided 38+Ps were a perfect load.

And no, I haven't kept rattles in many years.

THE skins have a thousand uses like belt coverings, holsters, scabbard coverings, hat bands, ect. very easy to skin , salt em and roll in news paper and set on a dry closet shelf, or send them to me for $$ free ammo, my wife wants a lamp shade .

 

[Safari Dave]

We only have Timber Rattlers and Copperheads in the north Georgia mountains.

Maybe a hatband, but no belt.

 

[thriller]

Nice. Now the difficult question, European mount, shoulder or full mount?

Shoulder of course