Spring snakes

[centerpunch]

Have any of you guys experienced rattlesnakes while hunting spring turkeys? I live in Missouri and I hunt a lot of big rocky ridges. I sometimes have a thought of sitting on one but so far have not!

Ron

[PowDuck]

Yep. Just a few years ago in the AR Ozarks cousin ArkyBob and I were walking along the bottom of a rocky bluff. Bob had just stepped across this area, I was 10' behind him and almost stepped on a rattler. Bob had stepped over it. We dispatched it and had it for lunch. I suppose Bob still has the skin.

That being said, we don't wear snake boots or chaps there, and the snake was moving very slow. Just keep an eye out and look before you sit because if you sit on one you may have a hard time getting someone to suck the poison out.        

[elknutz]

And the punch line is "What did the doctor say?  Well, he said your going to die".

[bow loving man]

yep killed one yesterday with Miss Faith...see the story on the Faith/Hope thread...BLM

[sweeney3]

Never run into a snake while hunting.  Now fishing, that is another story.  

Incidently, if you happen to come across some large copperheads, I am looking for skins.

[monkeyball]

The garter snakes are out big time in the yard,and a resident black snake is doing mouse duty in the shed.
          Craig

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Snakes  

[wapiti792]

I got shook awake by the wife this am early after she went to the basement to do a run on the treadmill and found a big king snake wrapped around the sump pump trying to keep warm. I tried to grab him but he went up the drain...thank God we don't have rattlesnakes here or I'd be breakin' out the shotgun!

[bolong]

See plenty of them where I hunt. Mostly copperheads and cottonmouths, rattler once in a while.

[Fishycatfish]

Run into alot of them chasin birds in the hill country

[Ssamac]

Had them in my greenhouse last year. King Snakes. Not poison but nasty anyway. Had something called "Snake Guard" sprayed around the perimeter after I got rid of the couple in the greenhouse. That stuff works.
Kept the Missus quiet too.

sam

[m midd]

Killed this one Turkey hunting this spring

[Mudd]

Originally posted by Ssamac:
Had them in my greenhouse last year. King Snakes. Not poison but nasty anyway. Had something called "Snake Guard" sprayed around the perimeter after I got rid of the couple in the greenhouse. That stuff works.
Kept the Missus quiet too.

sam

Sam you could very well be the hero of my home if you'll tell me where to get "snake guard". My wife doesn't even allow us to use the word Snake. Yes.. her fear/hatred is really that bad and it doesn't matter what kind/color or size.. she hates them and is so revolted by them she almost starts throwing up if she sees one. I've witnessed bad words coming out of my sweet trophy wife's mouth when she almost stepped on a  very small garter snake. Her oldest daughter tried to play a joke on her by putting a couple of night crawlers in her dish water, it got the daughter locked out of the house for the day..lol

Please e-mail or pm me the information! Thank you in advance.

I apologize for the sidetrack but this was/is earth shatteringly important.

God bless,Mudd

PS Man! Just to think if I could have presented this to her for Mother's Day.. I'd be getting frisky in the very near future...lol

[carparcher]

Saw a pigme (sp?) rattler about two weeks ago in SE Oklahoma while pulling into a gate where I hunting.  A few years ago a couple people here got bit, but they aren't that common.

[Horne Shooter]

I shot a 3D at Buffalo Archery here in Houston last Sunday.  LOTS of trad shooters there, it was really nice.  I did though manage to step on a water moccasin.  I never saw him but managed to step on his head and he squirmed and slapped with his tail.  I stepped off and he reared up and struck at air a few times...guess he didn't like gettting his head stepped on.  I was very fortunate not to get bitten.  I'm leaving for Alberta Friday for bears and that would have put a serious crimp in the trip.  Sure got my blood flowing though!

[Arrowhead80]

Whooo if i had've stepped on a moccasin the people around me would've smelled shyyyt.New droors would've been needed.

[Ssamac]

I'll get you the info Mudd

Pigmy rattlers are bad medicine. Hard to see and you can't hear them.They rattle but it's so small it's hardly audible.

Mocassins are the worst Nasty
Lucky you didn't get bit Horne. You start losing body parts when they hit you

sam