Nice!

What a beauty! Nice work!

Good marksmanship....please keep on shooting them..

Is that the chap that was in your shed some time back?

What is it?

Dont say snake...

I am no expert on snakes, especially African versions.

What is it?

Green mamba, a whopper.

Looks like a Black to me.

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Originally posted by fujotupu:
Looks like a Black to me.

A green mamba is verdant green.

A black mamba is named that because of the inside of his mouth.

Black Mamba..

Good use for a .22 LR!

Good Lord, how long was that thing?

Nice one Andrew!

Full mount?

Gives a whole 'nother meanining to 'Dangerous Game'. Yikes!

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Originally posted by DLS:
Gives a whole 'nother meanining to 'Dangerous Game'. Yikes!

I am waiting for Andrew to offer special "dangerous snake safaris" soon

I love snakes!

Nice shooting!

Well done sir.

How did it taste? Like chicken?

From wikipedia:

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The adult snake's length typically ranges from 2 meters (6.6 ft) to 3 meters (9.8 ft), although larger examples have been recorded. It is also the fastest moving snake in Africa, and one of the fastest moving snakes in the world, capable of moving at 11 km/h (6.8 mph) over short distances.

That one looks like it will go 12 feet at least. It probably is a record.

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
How did it taste? Like chicken?

What amazes me is that everyone who eats something's unusual, they say it tastes like chicken??

We fill sand bags from the back of our yard to put in our shooting tunnel and bullet stop.

One day I had one of the boys take some targets to stick at the end, suddenly I could hear him scream, and come back running!!?

"SNAKE" he was shouting!!?

I took a 22 pistol, and went into the tunnel.

Sure enough, there was an adder curled against the wall.

I shot it, and got it out.

The only way we could think of how it got there is that it was in the sand as it was bagged, and somehow managed to escape being shot and came out as the bags got holes in them.

Another time Walter found one lying outside our kitchen door.

And Walter being Walter, he wanted to play with it, and it the snake would not have any of it.

He kept jumping at him, and Walter was getting closer and closer.

Again, and 22 pistol came to the rescue, which did not please Walter at all

I hate snakes!!!

That's just nasty...

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Originally posted by fairgame:

That's a good snake.

Andrew, did you make sure he was over 6 years and kicked out of his pride??

Holy smoke!!! WOW! That is approaching King Cobra proportions!

Yes it is a black mamba and I surprised in the bathroom early morning but fortunately for me it was cold and the thing was not active. The bloody thing is nearly as thick as my wrist and you would not last long from a full bite from this snake.

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Good use for a .22 LR!

Absolutely and that little rifle has done me very well and is the most accurate of guns.

Spine shot?

fairgame, was that a conservationist decision? You could have shared your bathroom with a deadly snake if you had just made friends with him. Maybe you could have sacked him up and sent him over to a photographic camp. I'm sure they would have been much more understanding of his proclivities.

That sort of creature is enough to give me nightmares.
New Zealand often gets called "Gods Own Country", and while there are many things we do enjoy here particularly our freedom in land access and hunting, God certainly made our country his own by making sure it did not have any snakes.
He just gave our share to our Aussie cousins next door

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by DLS:
Gives a whole 'nother meanining to 'Dangerous Game'. Yikes!

I am waiting for Andrew to offer special "dangerous snake safaris" soon

I love snakes!

We do as well. Watched a Black Mamba while hunting with Buzz that was quite a bit bigger and thicker than the one pictured. It climbed a tree and entered a whole in the trunk much to the chagrin of the squirrels that were chattering away.

Eeeesh!!

I had to look at that picture three or four time to really get the magnitude of that snake.

I'm going off of Africa...

I have a deal with snakes. Not sure they fully comprehend it and there is nothing in writing. But, the basics of the "agreement" is we leave each other alone and don't hurt each other." Same deal I have with sharks. Except for blacktips, they are delicious.