Shoot On Sight

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Rattlers, moccasins, copperheads get a pass now, skunks, coyotes, bobcats, coons around the feeders, that's about all I can think of at the moment.
 
Shoot on site: (no particular order)
1. Feral cats that don't look too healthy.
2. Any dog running big game.
3. Escaped goats. (Call them feral if you want. They shouldn't be where I shoot/hunt. Fish and Game agrees.)
4. Sheep herders' dogs, left on the lease after the deadline to have everything out. (They will end up doing #2, and I don't care how much people think the owner might return. They never do. They come back with new dogs every year.) Officially, the Fish and Game should get a call about these dogs, so the warden can put them down. Unofficially, it saves a lot of time and paperwork, if they don't have to come out.
5. Dandelions. I hate dandelions.
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Aside from the dandelions that pretty much covers it.
If I killed every dandelion I saw my neighbors would have me committed, my whole yard would be full of lead.:D
 
I'm grateful the OP said creature, it opened the door to my soul, but honestly with everything going on lately, you don't want to know.



I did mod my Springer 1911-A1 hi cap with a beavertail and combat hammer if anybody wants to see it, let me know.
 
only poisonous snakes... all others can soldier on.


if you time it right...and the snake is on a gravel road..step on the brakes enough to skid as the tire gets on top of the snake... grinds it up, saves bullets.
 
I do not kill snakes if I don't have to. I can understand the phobia part. I was under a crawl space in the dark heading for a window to close and put my hand on a snake. That was the first mistake, trying to stand up in a crawlspace was the second. I had snake phobia for quite a while, and it had nothing to do with religion, because the neighbors said I certainly did not sound religious under there.
 
I don't shoot any thing on sight as a rule. But, if I have my dander up, a snake might get dispatched more likely than not. I hate snakes.
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Not that it'll likely make much difference, but snakes help control rodent populations and lessen the likelyhood of disease. I'm not afraid of snakes, but am startled when I first see one up close. I think we all are.
 
Yes, there are some that I would shoot on sight but have to admit that my list will vary from my back yard, to the field.

My back yard;
Starlings, Grackles, Ground hogs and coyote if I had a chance. Also, any sick animal like a squirrel with the mange. Snakes get a pass and my wife gives me lip over it.

Field;
Feral cats and perhaps dogs, depending on their attitude, Hogs and again, any sick or wounded animal. Any critter that the landowner wants me to take. Snakes still get a pass and I don't tell my wife. ... :eek:


Be Safe !!!
 
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Anybody got a pig problem around the coastal NC/VA area, I will shoot them on sight, also a hunter2homeless program would be good for those carcusses!
 
I just move them on. They do more good than harm. When my dogs encounter a gopher I pick it up and carry it to nearest gopher hole! :) Even rattlers I tend to leave -- grew up in West TX so became quite familiar with those critters. Lots of respect. A rancher-neighbor got bitten on the calf. rotted out a good chunk and he was not 100% for weeks. I was a kid but remember his fat, black leg .... kinda looked like M.O. now that I think about it!
 
+1 on anything feral. Snakes near primitive campsites or other areas frequented by quasi-outdoorsfolk learn why my hoe or shovel almost always has a nice edge-I don't want them to suffer the tiniest little bit when I remove their heads! The roll of toilet paper on the handle sometimes comes in handy too...
 
"...I hate snakes..." That's irrational fear. Don't like 'em myself, but Kaa will leave you alone if you leave him alone.
"...Tango's!!..." That's a tank.
"...Grackle..." AKA black bird.
"...to shoot a Pterodactyl?..." Let us know if you see one.
 
What I find ironic is the numbers of hunters who consider themselves to be good stewards of the land and who will kill snakes, any sort, on a shoot on sight basis.

Killing indiginous species on sight is not being a good steward of the land.
 
Nothing on this earth has a right to live forever and any animal that I would shoot or kill, on sight , I have to have a reason for killing and anything less that that is just plain killing for the "fun" of it. That is not what I teach my Grandsons. .. ;)

A neighbor lady, called me over to dispose of a mouse she had caught in one of those sticky traps. When I looked inside, he was still alive and panting from all the effort it was taking to get free. Took him outside and tried to free him but he was stuck too fast. After dispatching him, I told the lady not to use those kinds of traps and I would be more than happy to clean out a standard spring trap. She never called again and that's fine. .. :(

Just do your best; in your own best ways !!


Be Safe !!!
 
Any friggin Dog I see in my pasture. A couple weeks ago one tried to hamstring one of my horses. She's still alive, but totally ruined for riding.

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Downright friendly if not threatened -

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Daily visitors but don't stay still very long -

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Naps in the safety of our yard but declines to play with the dogs -

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We're all pretty much friends in my yard but that last guy booked in a hurry - didn't understand these guys just wanted to play.

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Sorry I don't have any pictures of the coyotes or bear -

As for snakes ( rattlesnakes are bad but unsociable and, if left alone - aren't any problem usually - only to kids and dogs) - we're friends - more than the rodents they eliminate. My wife - unusual woman in every way - she once picked up a cute little (5" ) garter snake in the middle of the street to save it from being run over by an auto - was surprised how strong it was when it continued "striking" her fingers while she was transporting it to safety - :D
 
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After some thought, I confess, we do shoot - on sight - Grackles and Magpies - with a very effective pellet gun - my wife is deadly and I had been shooting some 20 years before she was even born and she can out-shoot me any day.

Grackles tend to drive other more welcome birds away and, if allowed, Magpies would take control of our yard from even the dogs - and humans, I think. Pellets only drive Magpies away but are frequently lethal to Grackles.

We also have this hawk who helps with bird population control-

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Magpies would take control of our yard from even the dogs - and humans, I think.
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A lot of folks might not be all that familiar with Magpies and I only encountered them when I lived in Colorado and they do have an attitude as well as being raiders. Is there an open season on them and are they a big problems out there?


Be Safe !!!!
 
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