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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: Steve Wood on April 15 2011, 06:09:06 PM
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ambling across one of my roads after lunch....he was about five ft long, I guess. I decided to run over him because he was such an easy target. Apparently, I missed because I saw no sign of him so he must have down shifted and got the heck out of the way. Saw no sign of him after I unhooked a gun and got out of the truck.
I hope he is not wrapped around my driveshaft waiting on my leg.....I hate those sobs. For some reason, they have stopped rattling their warnings and the number of bites is going up.
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Saw a big rattler....was about five ft long...
There's a joke in there somewhere...
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For some reason, they have stopped rattling their warnings and the number of bites is going up.
Nasty, what is there for predators?
(besides your rifle)
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:pics:
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there is a lot of discussion going on as to why they don't rattle very often. Some think it is due to hogs being a new predator...oth er than guns, hogs, and hawks, there is not much in the way of natural predators..... no hogs close to me yet....
Last year, I was down on my knees checking for a water leak and realized there was a rattler's head four inches or so from my hand.....
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he would bite you and die instantly..... .but on a serious note...be carefull
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Not ratlers here but copperheads. My neighbor has killed 4 since it got warm enough for them to be out.
Thank goodness we don't have the ratler issue you have but we do have a few close encounters just west of here.
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We've got a strain - Massassauga rattler that is this far north. As a teen I was on the lake headin' to the outhouse. Good thing I had bare feet 'cuz that was the only reason I was watching where I was going and was the only thing that stopped me from stepping on it.
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in south fl the hogs are getting out of control. i've only seen a few snakes. think its the coral snake?
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We've got a strain - Massassauga rattler that is this far north. As a teen I was on the lake headin' to the outhouse. Good thing I had bare feet 'cuz that was the only reason I was watching where I was going and was the only thing that stopped me from stepping on it.
Living north of 7...bare feet...outhous e...and no indoor plumbing. Doesn't surprise me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz9jL3YNX-0
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Not ratlers here but copperheads. My neighbor has killed 4 since it got warm enough for them to be out.
Thank goodness we don't have the ratler issue you have but we do have a few close encounters just west of here.
the copperheads are usually a lot more aggressive than rattlers as are the cotton mouths....eith er would have been all over me when I was down on hands and knees trying to sort out the leak.
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the very last picture was supposedly killed in the next county...I am thinking it is from somewhere else, but there are still some big ones around here...a six foot one was killed under a porch in town here a couple of years ago
http://www.snakeboots.com/snakepic.htm
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That is a cool site. Amazing how big they can grow.
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A destination that is now off my retirement list:
St. Augustine Florida
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Saint Augustine kicks ass to visit. Not sure about living there.
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They've always given me a good 10- to 15-foot heads-up. Which has always prompted me to return the favor with a heads-off. There's a great movie title for ya, "The New Mexico Shovel Decapitation".
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in south fl the hogs are getting out of control. i've only seen a few snakes. think its the coral snake?
Yeah, the hogs are out of control here in AL too...I'm surprised they don't have a bounty on them yet for all the damage they've done.
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in south fl the hogs are getting out of control. i've only seen a few snakes. think its the coral snake?
Yeah, the hogs are out of control here in AL too...I'm surprised they don't have a bounty on them yet for all the damage they've done.
Hogs are no joke. Hill county where I live, hired a chopper and a shoote this year and in 1 week he killed 329 in one day. We've had a 350 lb hog taken off the property this last fall but haven't seen any more since then, thank God. :supz:
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Yikes! Those pictures are amazing! I know that we have all kinds of snakes around here, thank heavens that I have not came across one yet. I have seen them dead in the road but nothing in our yard. Our neighbor has told us that they have seen them in their yard and they put "moth balls" around their yard. Not sure if that really works. Most people around here says it does.
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they sell a commercial snake repellant that is similar to moth balls...suppos edly works on pit vipers like the rattler...I have an acre fenced off around the house so that takes a lot. My Boston survived a bite in the face but lost an eye. Nights are the worst as it warms up. I fear every night when I take the dogs out that they will jump one.
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I do not think we have pit vipers (never seen one) I have been told we have rattles, Black, corn and water. I am more freaked on the snake that our neighbor told us about that chases you. I think they called it a "black" something. They move real quick. Our neighbor said when she was a child, she was chased by one father was cutting grass with his tractor and caught up to it ran it over. Creeps me out thinking about it.
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the rattler is a pit viper and so are copperheads and water moccasins. Something about the fumes of the moth balls reportedly confuses the navigation of the snakes by interfering with the sensory function of the "pits"
Rattlers are not normally very aggessive. Copperheads and the Moccasins are.
Some of the non venomous snakes can be pretty aggressive when annoyed. We have so many names, coachwhips, black runners, etc that it is hard to know which is which due to the local names.
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too much to worry about down south.
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the rattler is a pit viper and so are copperheads and water moccasins.
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never knew they grew that big,,,,
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the only good snake is a dead snake. I've ran over at least 2 in my day