I'm not real fond of copperheads!

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Tripper

Tripper

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Out here in the Tejas hills we have all kinds of creepy crawly critters... rattlers, copperheads, coral snakes, scorpions, tarantulas etc!

Mrs Tripper nearly stepped on a pretty big copperhead last week & although I don't mind most snakes... I don't tolerate poisonous ones. It met an untimely end!

On Sunday I was working under the deck I'm building and am always cautious & there was an empty plastic mulch bag under there & when I moved it... about a foot long copperhead was under there taking a nappy nap. They usually freeze so I crawled out backwards muey pronto. I got my ax & missed the 1st time & he took off. That was enough for me so I called it a day.... just glad it wasn't a rattler because they will attack you... been there & that definitely ain't no fun!

Oh yeah... got bit on the top of the head a couple weeks ago by a scorpion that had crawled in my cap. Always check it before I put it on now!

BoB
 
I hear ya....we've been in a drought for a few years and it's trying to come out of it with plenty of rain. Anything that's been inhabiting the lowlands is moving to higher ground. I killed 2 pygmy rattlers mowing my grass the other day. My record for a years worth of poisonous snakes killed in a one year stretch here is 22 pygmies, 2 diamondbacks, and 8 cottonmouths.
Of those, the pygmy is the worst. Smaller usually than 3 ft. but camouflaged well and rattles so small they don't really make much noise.
 
I was putting shocks on the f350 when this one decided to see if he could help. I had crawled out from under the truck, went to the house to get a cold drink and when I came back to resume working, this big boy was in my spot...
 
As a good friend of mine once said..."I'm only scared of 2 kinds of snakes.....


Big ones and little ones!!!:eek: [cl
 
05snopro440 said:
Yep, I'll take snow and cold any day, it weeds out this stuff!
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Yup. We do have rattlers but I haven't seen a live one in years. The winter does have a cleansing affect, gets rid of a lot of pesky things. After living in East Texas, I also never again want to reside where the spore and mold count in the air is part of the evening weather. I had the crud, coughing up crap and snotty nose half the year down there.
 
Bamamav said:
Only good snake is a dead snake! :eek:
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Bama... I have several rat snakes that hang around. Anywhere you have animal feed... u're gonna have mice & rats & the biggest rat snake is about 6-7 ft long so I figure he didn't get that big without eatin' lots of the lil kritters! I give him wide berth but don't mess with him!

BoB
 
They're everywhere here. I leave the non-piosonous ones alone, I walk these woods barefoot, the poisonous ones have to go. I've got a yellow rat snake that takes care of some of the mice around my horse feed. He's about 5 feet long and has already met up with my bulldog once. He was wrung out pretty good by the time I got to him, but I put him across the fence and he came back after he healed.
I've been to some places in Texas that really match some of the terrain I have here and much the same kind of problems too. Even the woods, If it doesn't stick you or cut you, it'll probably bite you...
 
I'm not a fan either,A couple of weeks ago the dog started raising hell I went to see what was going on.This was on the front porch behind some stuff. About 4' long and 9 buttons.

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we have a lot of red racers here and i really like em
(think garter snake)
matter of fact
i accidentally ran over one with my mower recently and felt terrible
so i put it on it's highest and slowest settings so they can get out of the way.
if i saw a rattler around the house i would kill it
but in the wild i leave em alone
 
I think a lot of people are like me. I can't tell the difference between the good and the bad snakes. Killed 3 so far this summer, all were about 5ft long ,kind of charcoal colored with a light belly.
 
You guys in the South have some weird stuff to shoot at, glad you have it and I don't.
Did have a 7" bees nest in the well house today as I was re-roofing it. Sprayed em from a distance and all was good. Compared to the snake thing, I'm OK.
 
I would love to have some king snakes around the house
For the simple reason they EAT rattlers.
 

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