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Post by whitworth on May 21, 2012 20:50:56 GMT -5
Man, you should have seen the size of his head -- and mouth!
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Post by oldschool on May 22, 2012 12:57:14 GMT -5
Snakes - like all of God's creatures - have their place in the world. While potentially dangerous, they are not mean. They have no plan or intent to harm people. It is people who appear intent on harming them that causes them to do what they do to protect themselves. I have never seen any snake on THIS continent chase after a person and I have been personally catching snakes of all kinds (including rattlesnakes, cottonmouths and copperheads) since I was a child. I don't know about your experiences, Mark, but I have had cottonmouths make aggressive moves toward me several times in my life. Growing up in and around the swamps, rivers and creeks of the South, I've had my share of run-ins with them. I've never figured out why they moved toward me...it made no sense. I certainly wasn't provoking them, in fact I was trying to move away from them. However, they certainly never moved again.
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Post by sixgunnn on May 22, 2012 20:43:23 GMT -5
I have bird dogs, so I kill any venomous snakes I see on my place. Even though the Tall Timbers Research people have determined that snakes of any kind are the number one nest robbers of quail, I don't kill non-venomous snakes. I must have let 100 common King Snakes go unharmed in the last few years. Here is a Timber Rattler I killed right out my back door a few years back. A year earlier, I had killed its twin literally stretched across the bottom step on the porch stairs. Three-inch .38 special j-frame with CCI snake loads. About 10-12 feet. I have never seen a timber rattler before. That appears to be one big thick snake ! Nice little three inch smith also.
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Post by sixgunnn on May 22, 2012 22:05:35 GMT -5
I ran into this guy this last weekend in North Carolina. Not the friendliest fella...... ;D Wonder what he weighted ? Thats a big old boy .
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Post by whitworth on May 22, 2012 22:30:38 GMT -5
I dared not pick him up! ;D
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Post by dlhredfoxx on May 24, 2012 12:09:25 GMT -5
I dared not pick him up! ;D Wise choice as he'd have weighed a bit more with a couple of your fingers in his belly!
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