fedup2 said:
Must have been a fearful evening MLA!
I done pondered your situation a spell & I figure if a man was to wait until they opened their mouths wide open, then you drew back your fist & rammed it down their mouths as far as you could reach, grabbed them by the inside of their poop chute, turned them inside out, they’d be facing off the other direction & couldn‘t bite ya! Might save you a kettle or two! :wink:
Wasn't so much fearful as a little bothersome. Never thought of tryin your trick. It just mighta worked.
Y'know I was thinkin of tryin what some others have done when in a pinch wif the skeeters. I've heard tell of an oldtimer who would chain up a big ole grizzly near his bedroll. Bein's he was chained up all nite, he'd get just grouchy enough to swat them blood-suckin varmints right outta the air.
But then since all we have is the odd black bear, I didn't think it would be fair to tie'im up and try to make a stand against them skeeters. Just not enough to'im to make it a fair bout.
Not that I particularly like black bears, but I don't like seein'im tortured to death ether.