D&D Farm
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Christmas time, so drag out the billfold, let the moths fly out of it, and spend what little I have for my best friend and mate. She spends a lot of time down at the barn doing goat and herd dog tending chores. Maybe 3 hours per day or more. In the last year alone the following incedents have happened with her down at the barn:</p>
A timber rattlesnake, 4 ftas big around as a man's arm 20 feet from the barn with the guard dogs doing their snake dance around it. Killed it with .22 rifle after having to go to the 300 yards to the house to get it. </p>
A male red fox was doing his territory thing on the adjacent mountainside pasture, perhaps at the most 50 yards away. NEVER to hunt or shoot a healthy one; but these are prime rabies critters here. My wife gets spooked of other rabid critters also. I do hunt the tree rats and throw them up at a spot on top of the mountain for the predators.</p>
A BIG ol boy down on the highway at the end of our drive and the paved roadwandering around without a shirt and babbling to himself. Obviously high as the sheriff 30 minutes later took him off.</p>
Another ol boy came walking half way up the road before the guard dogs inside the electric fence carrying on got him to decide that he had come far enough up the road and are those dogs really gonna stay inside that fence. We use 4 Anatolian/Pyrenese that really can put on a good guard dog demonstration. The barn is perhaps 300 yards from the paved road with the house being 1/2 mile after drive goes on up the mountain and back down the other side to the house. </p>
She feels she needs a weapon down there and I agree. So, it's time to send one of the house weapons: .22 scoped rifle kept by the front door for critters/tree rats, .38 S&W Chiefs Special in a drawer back in the back in the TV room, and 12 ga. pump kept under the bed down to the barn and replace one of these with something new. OR.....get her what to be kept down at the barn? </p>
Budget is less than $200, I guess keep in some kind of case that is VERY easy to get it out of, will still function well if dusty or covered with barn dirt, resist rust as it will be seldom cleaned.....DEPENDABLE</p>
Am thinking for the case of some kind of cloth case that it can be pulled out of?</p>
NOT a pistol as the range is in feet rather than a distance and I really don't want ANYTHING getting closer.</p>
An ol fashioned double barrel break over shotgun?</p>
YOUR thoughts please............thanks and God bless OUR Country..........Dennis</p>
A timber rattlesnake, 4 ftas big around as a man's arm 20 feet from the barn with the guard dogs doing their snake dance around it. Killed it with .22 rifle after having to go to the 300 yards to the house to get it. </p>
A male red fox was doing his territory thing on the adjacent mountainside pasture, perhaps at the most 50 yards away. NEVER to hunt or shoot a healthy one; but these are prime rabies critters here. My wife gets spooked of other rabid critters also. I do hunt the tree rats and throw them up at a spot on top of the mountain for the predators.</p>
A BIG ol boy down on the highway at the end of our drive and the paved roadwandering around without a shirt and babbling to himself. Obviously high as the sheriff 30 minutes later took him off.</p>
Another ol boy came walking half way up the road before the guard dogs inside the electric fence carrying on got him to decide that he had come far enough up the road and are those dogs really gonna stay inside that fence. We use 4 Anatolian/Pyrenese that really can put on a good guard dog demonstration. The barn is perhaps 300 yards from the paved road with the house being 1/2 mile after drive goes on up the mountain and back down the other side to the house. </p>
She feels she needs a weapon down there and I agree. So, it's time to send one of the house weapons: .22 scoped rifle kept by the front door for critters/tree rats, .38 S&W Chiefs Special in a drawer back in the back in the TV room, and 12 ga. pump kept under the bed down to the barn and replace one of these with something new. OR.....get her what to be kept down at the barn? </p>
Budget is less than $200, I guess keep in some kind of case that is VERY easy to get it out of, will still function well if dusty or covered with barn dirt, resist rust as it will be seldom cleaned.....DEPENDABLE</p>
Am thinking for the case of some kind of cloth case that it can be pulled out of?</p>
NOT a pistol as the range is in feet rather than a distance and I really don't want ANYTHING getting closer.</p>
An ol fashioned double barrel break over shotgun?</p>
YOUR thoughts please............thanks and God bless OUR Country..........Dennis</p>
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