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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: JC on June 13, 2009, 01:15:00 PM
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I took a few minutes this morning before our baseball games started to shoot a few arrows. I've just got a couple doz new shafts and started the tuning process so I carried a pile down to one the dirt mounds in my pasture where I always bareshaft. Things were going well, I was narrowing down the answers and I hear the dogs barking over in the brush. Normally, I don't pay them any mind because being game lil suckers, they are constantly draggin up some varmint of some kind (don't ask how many skunks).
I was absorbed in shooting till I hear Porkchop yelp and see all four go into a frenzied dance in a ragged circle given what-for to the center. I walked over and shooed them away only to find....Mister No-shoulders. I had my normal arrows in my quiver...first shot nicked the left of his head which kinda irritated him a bit...second shot was a mite closer and ended the drama.
None too amused....
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/recurvhuntr/Stuff/copperhead/IMG_0367.jpg)
Boy, them Hammers shore do cut a bloody swath!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/recurvhuntr/Stuff/copperhead/IMG_0369.jpg)
The business end...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/recurvhuntr/Stuff/copperhead/IMG_0362.jpg)
He was hit 4 times on the nose, touch and go for the first hour; he's only 25# so it really did a number on him.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/recurvhuntr/Stuff/copperhead/IMG_0363.jpg)
Thankfully, being horse folk, we've got a bottle of about every kind of serum a feller can get his hands on. A super dose of penecillin, a butt full of banamine and he's come around with only some swelling and glands the size of golf balls to show for it.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/recurvhuntr/Stuff/copperhead/IMG_0373.jpg)
Thought for the day: If you've got dogs (or kids) with more heart than good sense, keep yer undergrowth cut short. This is the second, and worse, bite Porkchop's had from coppersnakes...you'd think he'd be smart enough by now! Oh yeah, when you screw a Hammer on the end of yer arra, don't don't point it at anything you don't want to tear up. :scared:
Watch where yer steppin boys...they're out and about thick this year. :pray:
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Yep...I notice every time there's a rabbit bloom the snakes really get thick..so this year ought to be a doozy for coppermouth waterrattlers, Joe!
Nice shootin, TEX!
We sure missed ya down South last weekend....but ya got an invite when you want to go.
Sure glad Porkie's OK.
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Wow quick thinking on your part, nice shooting and give my best to pork chop.
A.
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Joe, hope your pup pulls thru it ok.
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Each of my dogs have been bit a few times by copperheads over the last few years. We don't see many rattlers up here and no poison water snakes but plenty of copperheads. It always seems to be after vet hours when they get bit so we take care of them until we can get to the vet for an antibiotic.
Less than half of the bites have been "hot" but the dogs suffer a bit anyway. The neck swelling is the poison collecting in the fatty tissue around the dogs neck. I guess they developed that over the eons because they are always sticking their heads where they shouldn't.
My choc lab, Lucy Brown, now has a "snake bark" that she sounds when she sees or smells a snake. After 2 hot bites and a few not hot ones, she has learned......somewhat!
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Brother Joe,
How close was that sucker to Uncle Sammy's tent when we were down a few weeks back ? Sure would have hated to walked up on him during the pre-dawn Indian Alarm clock run draining my main !!! :scared:
nocams
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Glad your dog is doing well...
That Hammer sure did a number on that Copperhead!
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I hope your dog is OK, that serpent got what was coming to him :thumbsup:
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Dang bud, glad to see Porkchop,s gonna be ok...always hate to see a dog lookin' like that :(
But, It sure brings a smile to my face seeing the backround of some of those pix....
If ya get any ya don't want, maybe too small, I could use some for arra's.....
Tell everyone I we send our best from up north :thumbsup:
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Thats a good dog right there. He knows it's gonna hurt and still protecting his Dad. I hope he is gonna be ok.
Gonna have to try some of those heads.
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:scared: :thumbsup:
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Glad to hear your pup's gonna be OK.
We live near a wet weather swamp/creek, and on what they call "rattlesnake ridge". We've lost several dogs to rattlers. Mocasions seem to make 'em swell up, but are usually not fatal.
My best to Porkchop.
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Sorry to see porkchop all swelled up like that. Glad you took care of the offending party.
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OH NO NOT THE CHOP MAN (http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d171/IronBull_/Smileys/smiley_crying_2.gif)
I'll just bet he threw himself in harms way just to save his Buddies.....That's just the kinda little guy he is. (http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d171/IronBull_/Smileys/EMOPObravoHL.gif) NO THOUGHT of personal safety at all.
Man you really messed up that fellas BRAIN HOUSING...That's UGLY UGLY.....Ya gotta wonder if he was thinkin...MOVE....That ain't no WOODSMAN commin :goldtooth:
Good on ya Least Bro. fer savin Chop an addin to the Arra n Bow skins.
I need to come take him outa that HOSTILE environment he's just way to passive to be out there :goldtooth:
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Nice shot JC! Hope the little guy heals up well.
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Here's hoping your four legged friend makes a full, and complete recovery.
I just hate seeing hurt/injured dogs.
Guess I am a little weird, as I prefer the company of dogs to that of most people. (The dog's are a lot more honest.)
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Glad everybody's okay Joe. Just send the snakeskin to me and I'll make you a bow quiver you will be able to bond with. Course porkchop might get offended.
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In some remote areas; snake bites ( which might not be identified as to the type of snake) are treated with benadryl (sp) and vitamin C.
I did this with my snake bit dog; and he quickly turned the swelling into retreat.
There is a shot that you give your dog at the start of the year to give it some immunity too.
Nice shot. :thumbsup:
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the only good snake is a dead one; nice shot and sure hope porkchop does well..... :thumbsup:
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Those snakes are why I live North of the Mason Dixon Line ! Hope you dogs ok .
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JC, you should turn that Copperhead into a cover on Porkchop's collar!
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Yep I knew PorkChop was a good'n. Glad Miss Kim has that medicine cabinet full, purty snake though...
Something you might want to think about is I've started giving a rattlesnake vacine to our "jump right in the middle" Jack Russels every spring. Don't know why it wouldn't work on copperheads too, both a protein based poison I think. To my knowledge it hasn't been tested yet but with all the rattlers we've got it might make the difference some day...
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Joe,
Poor Porkchop!!! :scared:
I love that dog!! (all your dogs by the way)
Sure glad you and Miss Kim had the medicine to give to Porkchop! :pray:
Please give him lots of lovin' and rubs from me!
Keep us posted on his recovery.
Karen :)
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Oh Jesus. I hope that your dog will get well again. I have two myself, and wouldn't approve of any snake biting them! And as we can see, you didn't either. Fine headshot :D
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Just gotta love a dog named Porkchop. Hope he's doing well Joe. Nice shot on no-shoulders!
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Glad to see Porkchops going to be ok.
Great shot on no shoulders :thumbsup:
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how is chops????? :)
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Tell Porkchop we're praying for him. :pray:
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Hope all works out for you and dog. Cute looking little bugger...
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Gotta hate the pooch is feeling the worst end of a "bow backing". as long as there is AL-200 and penacilin (The fix all fer me) he should be fine. had a pitbull that always needed a shot one week or another, and benadryl dont hurt. good shootin and way to put the hammer to`em.
Larry
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well bro like i have always said the only good snake is a dead one good on ya one less to worry about. i hope pork chops ok. and real nice shooting to :thumbsup: :notworthy:
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I`m glad your dog is ok...
I`m indifferent to snakes, I let them pass, but here where I`m at, they just put up a good fake.
Very, very few of them have fangs here in Michigan.
I`ll say again...I`m glad your dog is ok.