Everyone needs to becareful around water this year. I walked up on this Saturday morning.
I'd have been short one turkey load . . .
Quote from: jblackburn on April 22, 2015, 10:51:16 AM
I'd have been short one turkey load . . .
Yep...THIS^^^^^^
Don't worry I didn't leave him to bite anyone. But there is a lot more where this one came from.
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I had the same thing happen a few deer seasons ago. It was a frosty morning, in early November but when I saw him it had warmed up to around 60 and he was sunning himself on a log up out of the water. I walked to within 15 feet of him and he was fully coiled with his white mouth completely open ready to nail me. Be careful out there.
It made me want to check around my feet sitting here at the computer.
looks like a big one ,,what kind would that be ,,we have a few small snakes here is southern ont,but nothing like that .mayby a rat snake or garden snake that thing is big ,,Dutch
Quote from: dutch@fx4 on April 22, 2015, 02:23:19 PM
looks like a big one ,,what kind would that be ,,we have a few small snakes here is southern ont,but nothing like that .mayby a rat snake or garden snake that thing is big ,,Dutch
Cotton. Mouth
Moccasin has an attitude bigger than they are long too.
In 1975, I was fishing around Pamlico Sound with a friend and his father, and we were taking the boat to a launch in the sound. There was a VW Beetle turned kind of diagonal in the lane ahead of us. My friend's father went to see if they were broke down and needed help. It turns out there was a huge water moccasin challenging the car. We grabbed oars and paddles from the boat and my friend's father had the driver run over the snake as he pounded it's head with an oar. That thing was 5 feet 2 inches long and as big around as a motorcycle tire. It had 2 inch fangs too. I was watching my step everywhere I went the rest of that trip.
Jim
Only good snake is a dead snake lol I really don't care for them.
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i saw a cow snake hunting the other day and wasn't right the rest of the day,i could only imagine walking up on that thing!!!
Man, I don't understand how you southern guys walk into the woods and set down at the base of a tree in the dark with things like that crawling around. You have my admiration.
Gotta watch where you walk, that's for sure.
I killed this one a couple weeks back.
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Quote from: trackerbucky on April 22, 2015, 04:29:45 PM
Man, I don't understand how you southern guys walk into the woods and set down at the base of a tree in the dark with things like that crawling around. You have my admiration.
you learn to bring a flashlight or use your foot (in snake boots) to clear the junk from the base of the tree!
I will kill everyone I see
Had 2 black snakes crawl right past me sitting in the woods this afternoon. Harmless but still makes your heart skip a beat. My mother got bit by a cottonmouth in our driveway one night on the way out to get the mail. She got pissed at my dad for wanting the mail that late at night. Thought she got stung by a wasp. Ha. Never saw the snake. Couple hours later she was in the hospital taking antivenom.
Oh that's nasty. I woulda shat right there. Then been down one shell as well.
I have another picture of my dad holding it up. It was all of 5 and a half feet long. Biggest one I have ever seen and I have lived around water all my life. I have never worn snake boots but after this I might just buy a pair.
With cotton mouths, rattlesnakes and copperheads here in Eastern NC, you wear snake boots and still watch where you step.
I had a snake fall out of a tree and into my lab one evening while turkey hunting. You would have thought I caught the Holy Ghost the way i levitated and got the heck out of there. I HATE snakes, especially the ones that sneak up on you.
I almost stepped on this guy and have seen another just as long but three times as thick this spring haven't killed either of them I killed every cotton mouth or copperhead I see they are mean but unless a rattlesnake acts aggressive which I hardly have seen one that's acted like it had any thought of biting me than I let them go
There are many things I hate about living in New York...
But, not having to worry about snakes isn't one of them!
Steve
the only snake worth a damn is a dead one
Yikes!!
Snake boots are the ONLY way to go when trying to ease in near rooster birds well before day light. Go REAL tai chi slow and try not to snap any twigs without a light.
About 15 yrs ago was learning to hunt turkey, and sat down to discover a coiled brown snake between my knees. He was small and Had round pupils, so non poisonous. Taught me a lesson though. Could have been real ugly.