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Offline dirt road ninja

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Birds and snakes
« 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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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2017, 09:54:57 AM »
Good eating right there! Tastes like chicken

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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #3 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

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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2017, 12:06:26 PM »
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

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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #5 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.

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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2017, 06:18:52 PM »
Wow guess so lol

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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #7 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.

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Birds and snakes
« Reply #8 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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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #9 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.

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« Reply #10 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.


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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2017, 12:26:28 PM »
Killed this one early this past deer season.


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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2017, 12:31:40 PM »
Little guy lol! Our rattlers are sometimes fat but none of our snakes get that big

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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2017, 01:57:14 PM »
That's a nice one. I bet he had a lot of rattles.

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Re: Birds and snakes
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2017, 02:49:20 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.