Like Pat said,those are a lot diffrent color than the ones we get down here.Most of the snakes i get either are shot in the head or the head smashed.That of coarse usually causes the poison to be all over around the head/neck area.Twice for me and once for a friend, we got poison on our hands while skinning and ended up burning/ tingling and swelled up to my elbo from one and my friend spent the night sitting in a chair in the yard throwing up.In all three cases we had washed our hands with dish soap witch is a surfactant and may have been why it went trough the skin but i dont know.All 3 times it was rattlesnakes.We now wear rubber gloves,lol.I just finished a 59 polar with copperheads.They are very translucent skins so the maroon glass color shows through on the light color parts of the snake pattern and it really looks cool.You can also plainly see the bear polar decal through it witch i like.I have been bit by rattlers, copperheads and mocossins many times and have the scars to prove it.Once by a diamond back while i was squatted down picking wild blackberries that was just under my butt cheek,lol.Was NOT cool!It took over a year before the scar even healed up.Copperheads dont even make me sick anymore.But i skinned so many snakes out this year that this fall when i am in the woods it has me plumb paranoid.Around my house we are infested with them.We had one pitbull that got bit three times by a large diamond back, once right on his spine and the dog died in about 45 minits.One of my timberwolfs got bit 3 diffrent times and only swelled up but didnt seem sick.My other wolf wont get near a snake, i think she is the smartest one,,lol.
Topic: Those gorgeous,coveted copperheads! (Read 1062 times)
