Author Topic: Critter I found at my parents' place (Read 4505 times)

Brad Johnson · « **on:** November 28, 2006, 02:15:21 PM »

A pic of a lil' critter I found slitherin' 'round at my folks' place over the weekend.

Brad

USP45usp · « **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2006, 02:42:35 PM »

I hope the lil'l critter is now being cured to make a hat band.

I really dislike snakes, they usually found themselves on the wrong end of the shotgun when I lived in Florida.

Wayne

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #2 on:** November 28, 2006, 02:46:35 PM »

I like snakes.........taste like chicken!
Did ya eat him?

crt360 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 28, 2006, 02:55:27 PM »

Did you smack it upside the head with a frying pan?

Sindawe · « **Reply #4 on:** November 28, 2006, 03:34:07 PM »

Did ya pull a Steve Irwin and pick him up while chanting "DANGER DANGER DANGER!"

K Frame · « **Reply #5 on:** November 28, 2006, 04:16:46 PM »

That reminds me, I wonder how my exwife is doing...

charby · « **Reply #6 on:** November 28, 2006, 05:48:02 PM »

rattlesnake or copperhead?

Sindawe · « **Reply #7 on:** November 28, 2006, 05:51:18 PM »

That's a rattler. You can see the rattles in the lower center of the image.

charby · « **Reply #8 on:** November 28, 2006, 06:45:57 PM »

ok now I see them, thanks. Just don't get to rattlesnakes here in Iowa very often, I have seen three in my life. Two on the side of the road in the AM and one while out walking a crick bottom in a limestone canyon.

-C

LadySmith · « **Reply #9 on:** November 28, 2006, 09:41:50 PM »

It's beautiful.

roo_ster · « **Reply #10 on:** November 29, 2006, 01:54:05 AM »

I have no problem with venomous serpents as long as they keep their distance form my property. Cross the line, however, and I got a shovel waiting to whack the critter into its next state of being.

Leatherneck · « **Reply #11 on:** November 29, 2006, 03:56:27 AM »

That's my rule as well, although we don't have rattlers to deal with East of the Blue Ridge. All the black snakes and their kin are welcome on my property; copperheads are not and will be dealt with swiftly and without mercy.

TC

MechAg94 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 29, 2006, 05:37:32 AM »

Copperheads are generally more brown or light brown in color. They are normally smaller also at least the ones I always saw.

My mother was bit on the foot by a coperhead when I was a kid. She didn't see it and stepped on its tail. Since then, snakes were not allowed near the house on pain of death.

Where I grew up, I never once saw a live rattler. We saw many copperheads, mocassins, bullsnakes, garter snakes, chicken snakes and others, but never a liver rattler. I did see rattlers that others had killed, I just never came across one. Since we didn't run around the woods after dark much, I think that is the main reason.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #13 on:** November 29, 2006, 05:54:26 AM »

I wish I had a few snakes around here, might cut down on the mouse problem....I actually suggested to the wife that we get a cat today, give it back to the humane society when we move...she called me heartless.... rolleyes

mtnbkr · « **Reply #14 on:** November 29, 2006, 06:04:33 AM »

A few years ago, I was camping up on Reddish Knob near Harrisonburg, Va. The first morning, I was "returning the coffee rental" when I looked to my right and saw a 4' rattler sunning himself about 3' away. I finished my business and popped him with a 38 snakeshot, destoying his head. After he stopped squirming, I skinned him out and brought the skin home to dry and mount. It's tacked to an oak board in my office at home.

I had to kill it because this was his 2nd sighting of the trip and we had too many people in that camp to risk a bite. At best speed (some of it over jeep trails), it would take over an hour to get to the nearest hospital.

Chris

Hutch · « **Reply #15 on:** November 29, 2006, 06:19:53 AM »

FIRE MISSION! SHELL HE! SNAKE IN THE OPEN! FIRE FOR EFFECT!

Man, snakes give me the heebee-jeebies.

Art Eatman · « **Reply #16 on:** November 29, 2006, 08:04:06 AM »

Wuz on the backhoe, yesterday, going out to clear a rockfall from one of my hunting-route jeep trails. Saw a medium-sized rattler.

You have any idea what back-dragging a loader bucket across a rattler does to that pore lil critter?

Cheesy

, Art

wingnutx · « **Reply #17 on:** November 29, 2006, 08:13:09 AM »

I see rattlers periodically, especially when goign to the public range which is out in the desert.

Never had a problem with them. We leave each other alone.

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #18 on:** November 29, 2006, 09:34:13 AM »

Snakes on a Range?

Call Hollywood, I smell sequel! grin

crt360 · « **Reply #19 on:** November 29, 2006, 10:41:02 AM »

Since I forgot to say it earlier - "nice pic." I usually shoot pit vipers with a firearm, but you did a good job with a camera.

gunsmith · « **Reply #20 on:** November 29, 2006, 11:21:56 PM »

great photo.
Snakes eat rat,mice and other disease carriers.
leave em alone.

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #21 on:** November 29, 2006, 11:49:58 PM »

Snake out in the wild? Sure, leave it alone.

Snake in your campsite or yard? We aren't exactly short on snakes. Far better safe than sorry, especially with kids and pets around.

JAlexander · « **Reply #22 on:** November 30, 2006, 07:50:37 AM »

That's a great picture, Brad. How big was he, do you guess? Two feet, maybe? Although it's hard to judge scale (heh) when you're just looking at the snake and a few cedar branches.

James

Brad Johnson · « **Reply #23 on:** November 30, 2006, 08:17:30 AM »

About two and a half feet. Six rattles and a button.

I was about four feet away when I snapped the pic. I kept prodding him trying to get his head up, but he kept hunkering down lower.

Brad

mtnbkr · « **Reply #24 on:** November 30, 2006, 08:59:00 AM »

Quote from: Brad Johnson on November 30, 2006, 07:17:30 AM

I kept prodding him trying to get his head up, but he kept hunkering down lower.

You're a braver man than me.

Chris

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