Didn't get the big one I was after this past weekend but I did find some nice females.



http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b220/ ... 125003.mp4

My buddy got this one a few weeks ago. 58 inches 12 rattles

Cool!!! Tell us more-where, why, what do you do with them.

Fuck. That.

They have to be 42 inches and male here in PA to keep them. I know the location of several dens in the area and I usually start looking on the south facing hillsides. The population is getting high so taking some males is a good idea. After cutting their heads off you remove the skin and then pin them inside out on a board and apply tanning solution. The hides tan easily. Found the ones I am holding inside of a cell phone tower ground cable box...I hope that guy knocks before entering. lol

You couldnt get me to touch a snake with a 10 ft pole. You can have that

Ain't no way. You can have that hobby. If I did it all my pictures would be left over snake parts from the 12ga.

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Thats all you, slick. Won't catch me anywhere near them suckers!

I. Hate. Snakes.


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Do you eat them?

That looks like a blast! Seriously!
Snakes have never bothered me. I had a small (3-4') red tailed boa constrictor as a kid. Used to feed him a live white mouse every week. He rarely moved, but you could see him come alive when you dropped that mouse in there with him! Watching him strike and coil and constrict until the mouse stopped kicking was the shit for a young boy! Then he'd unhinge his jaws and slowly swallow it-usually head first. Ass first and the back legs would get hung up on his jaws

http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2484&cid=158

We killed this one two years ago on a food plot in south ga. My buddy almost stepped on it. You can have that hobby. Herpetologist said he thought it to be almost 20 years old.

Anybody ever come across a copperhead? Which do you think it would be worse to be stung by-a rattler or a copperhead? Anybody ever been stung?

(yes, I know, they bite, but I like sting better;)

Snakes sting. Bees and wasps bite ...if you're a democrat

What part of you got stung? What did it feel like?

Copperheads and Rattlesnakes are both venemous.

Rattlesnake bights are pretty bad. Severe tissue loss and if not treated immediatly you can loose muscles in the area of the bight. It turns black and rots away..

Copperhead's venom is also pretty bad but it is not nearly as severe. It still needs immediate medical attention though.


BTW thats a big snake in that link.

You should go to the rattlesnake round up in Claxton, Ga. I think they been having it for like 45 years. Monster eastern diamond backs.

What you do with the hides once tanned?

Dick warmers

Just kidding. I bet it would be simple to make a really cool belt!

Fried rattlesnake and cold beer. Nom nomz.

I was bit by a water moccasin when I was 13. It barely broke the skin though through my boot. Still hurt like hell and swelled up. Josh (GuagetheDuckdog on here) almost stepped barefoot on a coral snake while helping me build blinds. He had his foot right over the thing and right before he stepped, saw it. That would have been a life ender right there.

^^^ exactly!!!

I am 51 years old and have been around snakes my whole life, never been afraid of them and I have been bit twice by copperheads (one of the times I don't think it put any venom in me, I didn't swell up at all where I was bit, hardly left a scar) and once by a cottonmouth. Both of the copperhead bites were my fault, I was playing with them. The cottonmouth I stepped on when I was harvesting cattail roots to eat. I tend to go barefoot alot when I am in the woods or swamps (don't know why, just have always done it). I know I would rather be bit by either of those snakes instead of a eastern diamond back. Those boogers can cause some serious injuries and they probably kill more folks than any other snake in the US. When I was a teenager one of my running mates got bit by a eastern diamond back and he was in a wheelchair for almost half a year before he could walk. He sees a black snake or anything else now he dang near has a heart attack. I catch a good many canebrake rattlers down here, we are seeing alot more and less diamond backs. Also seeing tons of copperheads (have had a mess of them every year in my yard, had two bird dogs snake bit by them in the last couple of years).

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Why the hell are you harvesting cat tail roots to eat? I've never tried that chit? Goes good in a gravy?

Got bit by a 4ft cottonmouth inthe calf bout 8 months back. I wana start huntin em too. Spiders i fuckin hate but snakes dont bother me a bit.

Got stung in the calf, FUKN sucked, swole up, had the shitz for atleast a week and the sweats.
No idea what kind of snake it was, I left the area screaming like a biatch.

huh?

kill them all!!!! and you still wont put a dent in their populations....

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Here are a couple of copperheads I killed last summer

The best snake is a dead one, not sure if I would call that hunting bc I never go hunting with out a gun!

Killem All !!!! I got no use for em especially during bow season in the swamp !!!!