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Title: Birds and snakes
Post by: dirt road ninja on April 03, 2017, 09:50:42 AM
Saw plenty of both. Had good gobbling and saw a few birds, sign was everywhere. The season should go well. Did see a few snakes, 2 were poisonous.

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Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: Bowguy on April 03, 2017, 09:54:57 AM
Good eating right there! Tastes like chicken
Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: dirt road ninja on April 03, 2017, 10:02:01 AM
Not sure if you've ever dealt with a cottonmouth, but they stink. Never ever considered cleaning one.
Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: trkehunr93 on April 03, 2017, 11:15:02 AM
So glad we don't have those around here, spend enough time watching for rattlesnakes and copperheads
Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: Bowguy on April 03, 2017, 12:06:26 PM
Quote from: dirt road ninja on April 03, 2017, 10:02:01 AM
Not sure if you've ever dealt with a cottonmouth, but they stink. Never ever considered cleaning one.
I haven't but turtles stink, so do rabbits-ugh. Skin out any venomous snakes n the innards will give you the willies w all the rotten stuff half decayed
Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: dirt road ninja on April 03, 2017, 12:24:38 PM
Cleaned plenty of turtles, frogs and a few snakes. Cotton mouths stink while alive. You sometimes smell them before you see them. They plain nasty.
Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: Bowguy on April 03, 2017, 06:18:52 PM
Wow guess so lol
Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: Rzrbac on April 03, 2017, 06:33:30 PM
I posted on another thread about how they stink when you kill one.  We have a lot of those. Oddly enough there's supposed to be rattlesnakes, every year somebody kills one.  I have wanted to run across one for years so I can get his rattles.  It seems like I'm the only person who never sees one.
Title: Birds and snakes
Post by: davisd9 on April 03, 2017, 06:37:29 PM
Would rather run into the moccasins and copperheads rather than a big timber. At least if you get bit by them it is more aggravation than anything else, as long as you are not allergic or get an infection.

A timber can be bad news in many ways. You can smell a rattlesnake as well, the smell is not as bad as the moccasins but once you smell it and connect the dots it will always catch your attention


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Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: Rzrbac on April 03, 2017, 06:44:05 PM
That's good to know.  I don't plan on getting bit but his rattlers are going home with me.
Title: Birds and snakes
Post by: Rzrbac on April 03, 2017, 06:46:35 PM
I did get to pet this one back in February at a deer show in Little Rock. They wouldn't let me cut his rattlers off though.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170403/76c605a4d8623b1a537365091b433b26.jpg)


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Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: dirt road ninja on April 04, 2017, 12:26:28 PM
Killed this one early this past deer season.

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Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: Bowguy on April 04, 2017, 12:31:40 PM
Little guy lol! Our rattlers are sometimes fat but none of our snakes get that big
Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: Rzrbac on April 04, 2017, 01:57:14 PM
That's a nice one. I bet he had a lot of rattles.
Title: Re: Birds and snakes
Post by: dirt road ninja on April 04, 2017, 02:49:20 PM
Quote from: Rzrbac on April 04, 2017, 01:57:14 PM
That's a nice one. I bet he had a lot of rattles.

Not really. Must have been injured, next one I kill - I'll send you the rattles.