Cooper advised us to simply avoid the snake. If it’s close enough to bite you, step back. Oh wait; can you draw and fire faster than the snake can strike?
I and some others once killed some rattlers along the Snake River in Idaho, but we stood there out of strike range discussing whether to do it, then we used sticks to kill them, but what ever floats your boat.. They did indeed taste like chicken, FWIW.
Does anyone know of a single case of a person shooting a snake that was close enough to bite? Did the shooter stay in the snake’s strike range, or back up, then draw the gun? Just askin’.
An AK “tactical” pistol? What’s the tactic, I wonder?
I gotcha Lyle– “unarmed” as in no arms, or legs, for that matter. Growing up on Long Island, however, we didn’t have any indigenous poisonous snakes–so everything is now poisonous until I see ID.
That coral snake has a nice reminder: red next to yellow, kills a fellow.
These cut-down carbines have one primary use in one primary area: they are suitably compact to carry in a vehicle for self and dignitary protection. They became very common with Blackwater in Iraq.
For the distance they are good to, I would rather have an MP5. the flash from the MP5 can be hidden for night work, but the flash from an AK pistol is impossible to hide.
A cut down, folding stock carbine I can see (AKS-74U et al) but I have yet to understand the allure of the “pistol” version (no shoulder stock at all).
“They became very common with Blackwater in Iraq.”
You’re not referring to a folder rather than a pistol?
Stateside, I see the rifle receiver pistol as a political creation (if it has a shoulder stock it falls under the NFA) rather than something that arose for a particular application. Otherwise we’d be seeing handguns more along the lines of an Automag, with 30 round mags, and/or the Tech 9 or some iteration thereof would be popular, which it isn’t.
There must be something I don’t understand. Is it all about suppressive fire? But in that case what’s wrong with having a folding stock on there just in case you want to, you know, aim, or something?
January 6th, 2010 at 11:50 am
But the snake is unarmed!
January 6th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I like my snake gun better. Even says “Snake Gun” on the Form 2!
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January 6th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
The snake is armed with deadly poison, Johnny.
Cooper advised us to simply avoid the snake. If it’s close enough to bite you, step back. Oh wait; can you draw and fire faster than the snake can strike?
I and some others once killed some rattlers along the Snake River in Idaho, but we stood there out of strike range discussing whether to do it, then we used sticks to kill them, but what ever floats your boat.. They did indeed taste like chicken, FWIW.
Does anyone know of a single case of a person shooting a snake that was close enough to bite? Did the shooter stay in the snake’s strike range, or back up, then draw the gun? Just askin’.
An AK “tactical” pistol? What’s the tactic, I wonder?
January 7th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I gotcha Lyle– “unarmed” as in no arms, or legs, for that matter. Growing up on Long Island, however, we didn’t have any indigenous poisonous snakes–so everything is now poisonous until I see ID.
That coral snake has a nice reminder: red next to yellow, kills a fellow.
January 7th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
These cut-down carbines have one primary use in one primary area: they are suitably compact to carry in a vehicle for self and dignitary protection. They became very common with Blackwater in Iraq.
For the distance they are good to, I would rather have an MP5. the flash from the MP5 can be hidden for night work, but the flash from an AK pistol is impossible to hide.
January 7th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
A cut down, folding stock carbine I can see (AKS-74U et al) but I have yet to understand the allure of the “pistol” version (no shoulder stock at all).
“They became very common with Blackwater in Iraq.”
You’re not referring to a folder rather than a pistol?
Stateside, I see the rifle receiver pistol as a political creation (if it has a shoulder stock it falls under the NFA) rather than something that arose for a particular application. Otherwise we’d be seeing handguns more along the lines of an Automag, with 30 round mags, and/or the Tech 9 or some iteration thereof would be popular, which it isn’t.
There must be something I don’t understand. Is it all about suppressive fire? But in that case what’s wrong with having a folding stock on there just in case you want to, you know, aim, or something?
January 12th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
I don’t get it either… that’s why my krinkov is an SBR… 😉