Aggressive Snake
 

I know, another snake thread. I was out of town for a week and when I returned, I noticed that my collection of anoles was much smaller than when I left. Thinking a predator might be around, I walked out of my slider onto the patio, and was moving down the sidewalk along the side of the house (my courtyard villa has a grass lawn), when a long black racer raised its head about a foot off the grass and struck at me. I was 7-8 feet away from it, so it had no chance to bite me, but it scared the daylights out of me. It proceeded to strike at me several more times, so I ran into the garage and got a golf club. I'm a live and let live person when it comes to "harmless" snakes, but I won't put up with an aggressive animal of any kind in my yard. I wasn't able to catch him and he slithered into a thick bush where I couldn't see him. Apparently he left the area as I haven't seen him since and the remaining anoles are active again. Has anyone else ever had a run-in with an aggressive black racer?

He was aggressive cause you were afraid of him. He was bluffing with no bullets ( fangs or poison) to fire at you. I had to run one out of my garage he thought he was the boss till it put my boot in his face. He ran for the hills. I don’t kill them not because the eat the lizards but small rodents. I like the anoles cause the eat insects around house. Even had one inside House that I couldn’t catch for month. I would wake up and he would be steering at me from end table.

Yikes! I have heard they are aggressive if cornered, but from your description it didn’t sound like it was. Personally, I would’ve shrieked and run the other way. We have had one or two slither across our yard, and occasionally found snake skins, but no encounter like you described.

what was your choice of club?

Not fond of snakes that are aggressive myself. I’m pretty sure one of us would have to leave and since I pay the property tax I think it would not be me.
I have an outside hose.

I find a five iron works best for snake clubbing.

A couple rounds of 22LR rat or snake shot will do the trick as well.

I have a black snake in my front yard. See him every once and awhile. He doesn't bother me and I don't bother him.

I was thinking a .410. But I guess I'll have to scale down when we move to The Villages.. lol

My club was an Adams Tight Lies 7-wood. But the snake got up against the concrete wall, and although the Adams 7-wood is not my favorite, I was afraid of hitting the wall and ruining a perfectly good club. I have a broom out there now. With that next time I can pin him down and deal with him when he's helpless. I hope.

:clap2: Love your question about which club to use.... reminds me of many years ago when Tiger's wife took a club to his automobile window.... and the most asked question around central Florida was "what was her club selection/"....LOL... turns out, rumor had it, she chose a 9 iron ! :ohdear:

Well you do have to be careful with some of the irons.

Once upon a time playing in a kind of wet snow hit a golf ball and the head of the 5 iron went further than the ball. The next hole same thing happened with 6 iron.

Called Macgregor and they kind of begged me to send all of the clubs back and they could not wait to send me a top of the line set of irons. Guessing there was kind of sorta some legal issue if someones head got in the way of a flying head.

That’s why I keep my old set of clubs in the garage. I can lend them to others who need to borrow some clubs, or if necessary, risk damaging one of them for pest control : )

Those of you who get Amazon Prime on your televisions should watch the Australian series “Snake Boss,” about a woman who catches poisonous snakes in Brisbane for a living. It’s pretty fun, and scary, and icky, too. You’ll learn pointers about catching them using tools sort of like golf clubs.

I would recommend a sticky rat trap along the wall. That will catch it and send it dispose of it. The only good snake is a dead snake.