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Man wins over beast!
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:32:05 CST, Chris Barnes wrote:
water snakes If your pond is too large for a net, your only real alternative option is a BB/pellet gun (an option I personally wouldn't like, but then again, I like snakes). Let's add, and be a really skilled shot, else your liner could suffer more damage than any snake. ;-) ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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Man wins over beast!
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:17:11 CST, ~ jan wrote:
Let's add, and be a really skilled shot, else your liner could suffer more damage than any snake. ;-) ~ jan I feel compelled to add that shooting at a pond (or any body of water) is generally a poor idea. The projectile (BB, pellet, bullet, etc.) can ricochet off the water and go some unintended directions. In my case, it doesn't really matter. I can't see my neighbors, I can't hear my neighbors, I don't really have any neighbors, at least not in the usual sense. I live alone and there is never, ever anyone besides me when I go "weeding." Sometimes you can hear the pellet go crashing through the trees behind the pond after skipping off the water when I miss a weed. I don't think guns and water mix too well. |
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Man wins over beast!
Galen Hekhuis wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:17:11 CST, ~ jan wrote: Let's add, and be a really skilled shot, else your liner could suffer more damage than any snake. ;-) ~ jan I feel compelled to add that shooting at a pond (or any body of water) is generally a poor idea. The projectile (BB, pellet, bullet, etc.) can ricochet off the water and go some unintended directions. In my case, it doesn't really matter. I can't see my neighbors, I can't hear my neighbors, I don't really have any neighbors, at least not in the usual sense. I live alone and there is never, ever anyone besides me when I go "weeding." Sometimes you can hear the pellet go crashing through the trees behind the pond after skipping off the water when I miss a weed. I don't think guns and water mix too well. Yes, but.... Distance. Even really good BB guns can't shoot more than a few dozen feet with any force. And ricocheting off of objects takes quite a bit of what little energy was in the BB out. Now if we were talking about a .22 or even a rimfire .177, then yeah, I agree - shooting at water is a bad idea. Also (for jan) - Mythbusters recently did a program where they tested how far various guns could shoot underwater (both fired in the water as well as from above shooting from above into the water). Turns out that even a high powered, military .50 cal sniper rifle won't put a bullet into the water more than a dozen feet or so. So unless your pond is REALLY shallow, a BB gun almost certainly can't hurt the liner (if you even have a liner in a pond big enough to attack snakes). -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes "Usenet really is all about standing around and hitting the ground with clubs, on a spot where many years earlier a dead horse lay." |
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Man wins over beast!
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:06:08 CST, Chris Barnes wrote:
Also (for jan) - Mythbusters recently did a program where they tested how far various guns could shoot underwater (both fired in the water as well as from above shooting from above into the water). Turns out that even a high powered, military .50 cal sniper rifle won't put a bullet into the water more than a dozen feet or so. So unless your pond is REALLY shallow, a BB gun almost certainly can't hurt the liner (if you even have a liner in a pond big enough to attack snakes). I'm so relieved. ;-) Not that I'd try it, even if I was inclined to, as I surely would be the exception to the rule. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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