Didnt want to find THIS!!!

[parsonwalker]

Didn't want to find THIS!!!



Tread lightly and be safe out there boys and girls . . . !

 

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[BosnMate]

Damn I hate those kinds of finds.

 

[vpnavy]

 

[lab rat]

Wooops!!! -I'M- gone...

 

[TheCoinKid]

Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?

 

[worldtalker]

Nice looking CopperHead. GodBless Chris

 

[TNGUNS]

You have to admit that a Copperhead is about as beautiful as any snake you will see in North America. I have enough sense to leave them alone as about 90% of the people bitten are messing with them. Watch where you walk, don't step over logs without looking, watch when stepping down rock ledges and generally you will never have a problem........ Now watch my ars get bit tomorrow. ha ha as I have seen 2 in the last couple of weeks.

 

[parsonwalker]

You have to admit that a Copperhead is about as beautiful as any snake you will see in North America. I have enough sense to leave them alone as about 90% of the people bitten are messing with them. Watch where you walk, don't step over logs without looking, watch when stepping down rock ledges and generally you will never have a problem........ Now watch my ars get bit tomorrow. ha ha as I have seen 2 in the last couple of weeks.

Agreed - gorgeous! That's why I'm fascinated by them. The pic isn't clear, but he had turned to face me down (Head up and ready, to the right). We faced off . . . I backed down. I only kill if they're in my yard . . .

 

[TNGUNS]

I am the same parsonwalker. When you really take the time to look at them (safely) they have few rivals. The mountain here has plenty of them. See a few timber rattlers but about 10/1 more copperheads. We raised Mountain Cur dogs for several years and had a few get on the wrong end of our vipers. They usually make it ok with a hit from the copperheads but the rattlers are a whole different ball game. I give them an extra wide path.

 

[worldtalker]

I am the same parsonwalker. When you really take the time to look at them (safely) they have few rivals. The mountain here has plenty of them. See a few timber rattlers but about 10/1 more copperheads. We raised Mountain Cur dogs for several years and had a few get on the wrong end of our vipers. They usually make it ok with a hit from the copperheads but the rattlers are a whole different ball game. I give them an extra wide path.

I lived in them Great Smokys,GOD overdid himself there by gosh!

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

I'm glad I don't have to worry about those up here in the NE, all we have to worry about are bears, moose, wild cats and the absolute worst menace there is............. SKUNKS.

Have fun but play safe,
ZDD

 

[Bayou Joe]

I love snakes, just not when I'm trying to swing my machine. Cottonmouths are every where down here in Florida, they put off a bad smell when you get close. A while back out hunting I could smell one but never seen it, that will make a guy very nervous. Haven't seen any copperheads down here, just those over populated cottenmouth's.

 

[Trezurehunter]

My wife just screamed. That's what she gets for walking in the room at the wrong time !!

 

[prolab69]

i think the tics up here in NY are all we really worry about

 

[creade]

Have seen 2 rattlers and some black widows up in nh. I feel safer around the black bears!

 

[g-olden years]

During my 40 years in central Virginia, I learned to respect snakes. So hard to see in the brushy mountains of Virginia, and copperheads like to hang out together at some times of year. Most dramatic meeting of snake & family occurred when my two kids & I were picking blackberries in a big patch near the trail at Loft Mountain. Suddenly a sound that I thought was one of the kids spraying tick repellent! But my eleven-year-old son, close to the hidden rattler, knew better and froze, then backed slowly back to the trail. All three of us then climbed a stout tree with heavy low branches to try to get a safe look at the rattler. Soon that huge snake slowly moved through a little clearing under us -- five feet long rattler and very heavy! When I mentioned the rattler's size to my adult hiking group a few years later as we were hiking past the same spot on Loft mountain trail, they all scoffed at me. My moment came when a few hundred yards later, the group froze on seeing a four-foot rattler gliding slowly across the trail, not as big as the one my family had met, but pretty hefty. In Oklahoma City during a neighborhood "clean-up" weekend, I lifted a garbage can lid that someone had left beside the road -- rattler! Jumping back was automatic! Never joined neighborhood clean-ups after that, ha-ha. When living in southern Arizona, my family met sidewinders and other rattlers in the arroyos, the sandy path to our daughter's school, and tucked motionless staring back at us from old tree stumps, and we made sure never to put our hands or feet where our eyes hadn't scanned. I was just now surprised to hear on this thread that poisonous snakes have made it as far north as New Hampshire! I have no desire to kill snakes, and my Dad killed only one in Virginia when we were kids, a copperhead in low brush right beside an ocean beach where many kids ran and played. Here in CA, I know the rattlers are around but haven't seen any. Andi

 

[l2hunt]

yikes!

 

[Hunters Haven-NC]

Amazing thing about copperheads. When threatened they can shake their tail and it will rattle just like a rattle snake. My dog had one at bay in my yard and it was rattling. When she was younger she would go in and grab the snake and shake it like a whip and kill it. She got bit twice. She's too old for that kind of stuff now so I have to keep my eyes open all the time cause we have plenty of Coppers in my area.

 

[lumbergh]

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Tread lightly and be safe out there boys and girls . . . !

Did it ring up in the 80's? That's what mine usually show up in. Just before they take a bite out of your leg.

 

[Roland58]

I love snakes, just not when I'm trying to swing my machine. Cottonmouths are every where down here in Florida, they put off a bad smell when you get close. A while back out hunting I could smell one but never seen it, that will make a guy very nervous. Haven't seen any copperheads down here, just those over populated cottenmouth's.

The venom from a copperhead will just about make you blow chunks, too! I had to use bleach to get the smell off of a 'grabber' I used to get one out of my neighbors yard......nasty smelling stuff. They are not considered that deadly, but, they can sure ruin a good day!!