For the fellows up North...

[RC]

Jeff...you got no sense. Like I told Mudfeather once...I love you like a Brother but if you pick up a snake and come at me I`ll cut you and pray for you stop bleeding...lol.RC

[Huntrdfk]

I'm with you on that one RC, that Holchin is just not right in the head........I'm happy right here in good ole NH where I never see those things.....

David

[Jeff D. Holchin]

This is one of my harmless "pet" snakes that helps control the mice and rats at my farm and house...

 

Here it is after a GOOD night at the all-you-can-eat rat buffet...

 

[fmscan]

After seeing those pics, I won't even drive in the South!

[Zradix]

up here we need to watch out for the bunnies...
 

[smokin feathers]

Originally posted by LA Trapper:
RC

That's some nice looking rattleheadedcoppermoccasins.

You are correct.  The mocassins are the ones that will come after you.  Canebrake rattlers will not go after you, but they will stand their ground and strike. Copperheads will remain motionless and hope you leave them alone. I walk up on them from time to time.  Had one crawl up my leg  sitting motionless on the ground turkey hunting one morning, it was a wild morning!

Oh yeah, and as usual RC, great pics, thanks for taking us along.

Billy

true true true, Was even funner than all the snakes,gators,humidity, high temps and mosquitos rolled into one, is being out in them every day cruising timber,marking smz's and all other good general forestry work! Before i moved down to the lower country where i live and work now if i saw a snake I was done for the day, now at certain times of the year if I see 25-50 in a day especially doing site prep burning I am not surprised!!  :D

[TRT]

LA Trapper is right.  I have been chased by a moccasin more than once.  Landshark 160 has the right idea.  However, if it were my arrow, I might just leave it!

[ishiwannabe]

Just because we don't see them(a lot) up here, doesn't mean they aren't here. NY is home to three types of rattlers and the northern copperhead. I have seen two rattlers(in the wild). Never saw a copperhead but a coworker lost a dog to a snakebite, and a guy got bit three years ago right down the road.
Pays to keep your eyes open and be aware.  

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Love it, RC!

May I join in the fun? Except for us, it's our Southerners who miss-out on the variety we have, although they still have plenty of cheeky (deadly) snakes.

 

 

 

 

[Benny Nganabbarru]

 

A hunt underway; it turned-out to be unsuccessful, and the flying foxes flew-away.
 

 

[JimB]

We don't have nearly the number of species but prairie rattlers can be pretty thick in some areas and they can have attitude.
 

[bolong]

Great snake pics! We got plenty of them here too.

[Mudd]

While I love looking at pictures I do have a preference for deer and the like...lol

Gives me the willies just looking at all those poisonous "no legs"...lol

God bless,Mudd

[Javi]

When you grow up in the Texas brush country you just get used to them and accept that you look before you sit, step or lay your hand on something.. used to have to kill the Black Widows in the outhouse before Mom would go in..  :D

[Lee in S.C.]

Ive spent my life outdoors and have only had a couple of close calls. Watch where you put your hands and feet. I usually end up killing one or two snakes a year, only if they are where they could hurt me or someone else.
Dont worry about gators unless they're really big. Ive run several off with a stick so I could get to work. Its all what your used to.

[LA Trapper]

I forgot to mention that I commercially crawfished for two years when I got out of college due to the poor economy. Saw dozens of mocassins weekly.   In 1984 one jumped out of a open crawfish trap (barrel trap) when I pulled it out of the water.  It landed on my left arm crawled across my chest under my neck and down my my right arm into the crawfish boat and under the seat.  Almost went into my hip boot.

I had a muddy brown stripe across my white tee shirt where the snake skee-dattled to get moving. My wife, financee at the time, asked what made that muddy stripe across my chest that evening when I got off.  I told her and she got weak in the knees.

Saw lots of big ones.  It ain't for the weak of heart.

Billy

[Jake Fr]

you fellas down there are brave if i go down i'll wait till January when it's sweat shirt weather down there and still stay inside now thanks RC


where all those pics of them snakes in Australia poisonous i dont know my snakes that well from the ones we have here in our south to other country's

[elknutz]

What kind of snakes are those Ben?

[straitera]

YeeHaw RC!!! If it aint the truth!! We've got snakes on snakes below the Mason Dixon.

Ben, I'd have moved to Australia except for those bad boy snakes. Out of 20 DEADLIEST snakes in the whole world.., 10 are in Australia!! No thanks. Makes my BVD's real nervous.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

The big ones are olive pythons. The cute little yellow one is a golden tree snake, perhaps, and not too poisonous at all. The skinny brown one is a brown, and that's a good one to avoid being bitten by. The crocodiles are freshies, not those untrustworthy so-called salties, who misrepresent themselves with their name to the unsuspecting enjoying a dip in fresh water.