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So now my hole is in good working order. Its time to shoot things out of it. I started with various birds for my kitties to eat. A cleverly placed bird feeder facilitated this.

I spent quite a few nights in the hole while my poor pregnant wife cowered in fear at the house. It was worth it though. I got to see lots of deer playing around and a pair of racoons. I put corn right in front of the window. I mean inches away. I could fall asleep in the hole and the deer would wake me up with corn munching noises. I never could get a pic of them that close though. You had to muffle your breething and if you did anything that made noise they would get spooked and walk off. They could hear my camera turning on. It was very very cool though. Here are a few pics. All you can see are the eyes reflecting in the flash, sorry.






Oh no, its coming for me!! (its just Belle Dog)



Now one day when I was in my hole eating 'pig in the blanket'.


I heard something moving around by the window. I looked over and thought I saw a mouse's head but it turns out it was a snake. I grabbed my camera and my little 9mm carbine. Here is Mr. Snake just before he met his demise.


I tried to film it but I hit the wrong buttons on my camera and missed it.
In any case the bullet struck him just behind the head and he was out of it pretty quick. I think the sneaky bastard was goign for my 'pig in the blankets'!!!!


He wasnt very big, you can get an idea of scale by my foot and pocket knife.


You can see how close to the window he was in this pic. That line to the right of him is the window 'hood'. It was difficult to get my gun in position to pop him from the inside.


Close up of the dead guy.


Oh yeah. That dirty bastard was going to kill me, then eat my 'pig in the blanket'. You can see his venom leaking down my pocket knife. Its a copperhead.


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