Shot an intruder today - Page 3

**PRB** · 06-28-2018, 22:03

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Originally Posted by PSM

Didn't shoot it, but after a combined 14 years in AZ, I finally saw my first Gila Monster. My wife saw two in her first year. BTW, I've still never seen a bear in the wild. I've seen just about everything else to include walking up behind a cougar on a trail.

I was trying to get closer but it got in the weeds. I've spotted sign of a larger one but haven't seen it yet.

Pretty coloring on it. The pix don't do it justice.

Hey, that's good luck! We had a big fat one come to our back door 10years ago...beautiful booger he was (or she?)...Right to the screen door...very cool...never saw him again.

Had a baby rattler in the pool last week.....got sucked into the clean out basket and wrapped around the lid base...lucky on the opening for me...eventually unlucky for him.

PSM · 06-28-2018, 22:09

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Originally Posted by PRB

Had a baby rattler in the pool last week.....got sucked into the clean out basket and wrapped around the lid base...lucky on the opening for me...eventually unlucky for him.

Had that happen with a full grown one back in '75. I learned to expect the unusual in the pool after that.

Golf1echo · 06-29-2018, 15:18

Remembering the days in Avra Valley, we found a Ghila Monster not long after starting our encampment... Later the neighbor killed many and always hung them in a mesquite tree by the road as if it were a tradition? Several rattlers made their way to dinner.
Here the issues can be a little bigger, out the back door yesterday... This is junior he's getting bigger, I noticed he tried to climb an Aspen to get at baby woodpeckers, his reach pulled a chunk off there entry but mom drilled a good nest, I measured the entrance at 12' up the trunk...

Chucko · 06-29-2018, 15:35

Last weekend I walked from my workshop building into my attached garage. I opened the door and stepped squarely right in top of something about 1-1/4" diameter and moving. I let up and hopped over and saw it was a black snake..

He squirreled into a corner and was facing me. I tried shewing him outside with a piece of carpet but no way was he going. I backed up and honked the care horn so my wife would come out and see it but she heard it and thought I was just playing. I hope I never have a real emergency. Finally I saw a couple 18" bars which I could hook him and fling him outside. By the way I hate all snakes. No more leaving my garage doors open to cool off.