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Snaaaaaakes Aliiiiiive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bigt7mmbigt7mm Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
Sorry,no pics. Just wanted to let you know I caught 2 at work last week. One 16" Corn snake and one 4' Rat snake. Let them both go in the woods.

You see,I like snakes. I don't mean I want to get intimate with them or bring them home to mom and dad,just that they are a very unique creature and I admire them and respect their ability to strike fear in the supposedly toughest of men.

I've caught,handled and played with snakes since I can remember and have only been bitten once,by a Garter snake,when I mishandled it. I caught a 5' Western Diamondback on my first hunting trip to Texas and felt rather at ease with it. Yes,I grabbed it with my bare hands and have pics to prove it. It's strength actually surprised me.

Last year I caught a 5' Water Moccasin on a club I was invited to hunt. That snake was very impressive,to say the least.I don't think he was too impressed with me.

I don't have snakes for pets as I prefer warm-blooded ones,but for some reason they captivate me.
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  • JesseLeeJesseLee Member Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You must have some deep seeded issues that need to be delt with. Good luck with that. In my book, If it slithers it dies! When I was 15 I was crossing a stream back in LA and I had a Water Mossicin (sp?)wrap itself around my leg; so it could take a break while it was swimming up stream. After a couple of minutes it released and continued up stream. I was really freaked out. From that time it was if it slithers it dies. My x-wife almost ended up the same way.
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  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    All snakes 'R' goode![:D]
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  • jabronij3jabronij3 Member Posts: 4,686
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigt7mm
    Sorry,no pics. Just wanted to let you know I caught 2 at work last week. One 16" Corn snake and one 4' Rat snake. Let them both go in the woods.

    You see,I like snakes. I don't mean I want to get intimate with them or bring them home to mom and dad,just that they are a very unique creature and I admire them and respect their ability to strike fear in the supposedly toughest of men.

    I've caught,handled and played with snakes since I can remember and have only been bitten once,by a Garter snake,when I mishandled it. I caught a 5' Western Diamondback on my first hunting trip to Texas and felt rather at ease with it. Yes,I grabbed it with my bare hands and have pics to prove it. It's strength actually surprised me.

    Last year I caught a 5' Water Moccasin on a club I was invited to hunt. That snake was very impressive,to say the least.I don't think he was too impressed with me.

    I don't have snakes for pets as I prefer warm-blooded ones,but for some reason they captivate me.yep I am the same if it ai'nt venomous it lives [as long as the wife and inlaws don't find out they say the only good snake is a dead snake]
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You are obviously a more enlighted man than Jesselee. Actually the corn snake is also a rat snake, the genus Elaphe is composed of several species East of the Rocky Mountains. There are other species in the genus Bogertophis in Tex and NM. Thanks for treating them well!
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,516 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigt7mm
    Let them both go in the woods.
    [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
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  • turtles11756turtles11756 Member Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    a poisonous snake is the last thing that wants a confrontation
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,690 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like snakes, too.
    Once while driving in S. Georgia, I saw a 5 foot rattlesnake stretched out on the road. I stopped the car and got out. Doing a quick review of Newtonian physics, I figured that if he wasn't coiled up, he couldn't spring out very far to strike.
    So I grabbed his rattles.
    I only held on for a second and then let go.
    He didn't try to strike, he got going fast and went off into the woods.
    Another time I was out in a field picking mushrooms that grew in the cow manure. I was intent on the mushrooms as I wandered near the pond.
    I had leaned over to pick a mushroom and I happened to look ahead, there was a 4 foot water moccasin, all coiled up. His mouth was wide open, I learned why they are called cottonmouth.
    He was about 2 feet from my hand.
    I must have looked like a cartoon character, I jumped about 5 feet high and 7 feet back without even realizing I had jumped.
    Damn that was so close to getting bitten.
    I just stayed clear from that big moccasin and went on about my business.
    I never kill a snake, unless it is a poisonous snake near my house.
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Corn snakes from South Carolina are famous for their beauty. At one time snake hunters/collectors would travel to South Carolina every year for a chance at catching a corn snake. It is said that they became famous when Karl Kaufield (a Curator at a New York Zoo) wrote the book "Snakes and Snake Hunting" Now they are bred like chickens and sold to pet shops or at reptile shows(much like gun shows).
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  • JWolfJWolf Member Posts: 1,901 ✭
    edited November -1
    my first encounter with a rattlesnake was related to me by my mother as I was about 4 she tells me we were at an uncles house and I was playing outside apparently a rattler was cruising by and I reached down and grabbed his tail and started spinning him around over my head (like I did my toy one mom says) well when ahe saw me I imagine she about came unglued, I don't remember any of that so I have to take her word.
    only got close to getting bit one other time while rabbit hunting I kicked the wrong bush I guess any way he died for striking at me and I had the crap scared out of me.
    I caught a 6 foot red racer once outside my house, let him go, and once here on Ft Stewart a 4 ft copperhead came into our bivvy area and for some reason the other guys called me a medic mind you to come dispose of it. I trapped it's head and picked it up then walked it about a click away and released him. I like snakes too but I do tend to tread lightly around them.
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  • elect1mikeelect1mike Member Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I for one think snakes are ok as long as they stay away from me. Went camping up in the mountains and woke up to find a rattle snake in my sleeping bag. He made a nice supper. O by the way had to change my shorts too LOL.
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    Non-poisonous snakes=O.K.[:)]

    Poisonous snakes=I hate![}:)]
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  • Glock23ExpertGlock23Expert Member Posts: 1,031 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Them South Carolina corn snakes and rat snakes sure have kept our barn and corn crib nearly free of mice.
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  • wlfmn323wlfmn323 Member Posts: 4,712
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
    All snakes 'R' goode![:D]


    YEAH for target practice!
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  • JesseLeeJesseLee Member Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am glad to know that there are other individuals that have enough common sense to dislike snakes. Yea, I understand that they have there place in the eco system and some serve a purpose in human society. My grandfather kept a Black snake in his barn for mice and rats. I only came across it once when I was 5. So I guess that I have always had a hard time telling the non-poisonous from the poisonous and that is why I truly have the issue with them.
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  • bang250bang250 Member Posts: 8,021
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    I like snakes, too.
    Once while driving in S. Georgia, I saw a 5 foot rattlesnake stretched out on the road. I stopped the car and got out. Doing a quick review of Newtonian physics, I figured that if he wasn't coiled up, he couldn't spring out very far to strike.
    So I grabbed his rattles.
    I only held on for a second and then let go.
    He didn't try to strike, he got going fast and went off into the woods.
    Another time I was out in a field picking mushrooms that grew in the cow manure. I was intent on the mushrooms as I wandered near the pond.
    I had leaned over to pick a mushroom and I happened to look ahead, there was a 4 foot water moccasin, all coiled up. His mouth was wide open, I learned why they are called cottonmouth.
    He was about 2 feet from my hand.
    I must have looked like a cartoon character, I jumped about 5 feet high and 7 feet back without even realizing I had jumped.
    Damn that was so close to getting bitten.
    I just stayed clear from that big moccasin and went on about my business.
    I never kill a snake, unless it is a poisonous snake near my house.




    Are you sure that the encounter was not a figment of your imagination brought on by the cow manure mushrooms?[:D][;)]
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  • tacking1tacking1 Member Posts: 3,844
    edited November -1
    it ain't so much being scared of them as being surprised by them.

    Fear is a 15 foot shark swimming around a 24 foot boat.

    I hate spiders though and will mush all I am able to.
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  • mussmuss Member Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have run up on many water mocasins in the swamps of Virginia and N. Carolina. Never really liked them, but never killed them either. I did have one jump up a bite my Bronco one time. I was driving down a gravel raod and it was laying on the road. When I got close, he jumped up and bit the front hood, then slithered off into a pond and sat there. There was a wet spot on the hood about the size of a softball. I would hate to get bitten by one of them. I did see another guy that got tagged in the arm by on, His arm looked like a black and blue sausage.[:D]
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fear is a 15 foot shark swimming around a 24 foot boat./quote]

    Then REAL fear is a 15 foot crocodile and yo fell out of the boat!
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  • tsavo303tsavo303 Member Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You must not have water moccasins.
    Does not matter it they want one or not if you or your dog step on one by accident

    i don't bother non-poisonous


    quote:Originally posted by turtles11756
    a poisonous snake is the last thing that wants a confrontation
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Tsavo, step on me, and I will bite too!
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  • tacking1tacking1 Member Posts: 3,844
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Fear is a 15 foot shark swimming around a 24 foot boat./quote]

    Then REAL fear is a 15 foot crocodile and yo fell out of the boat!


    You and Jesus both walked on water He?
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  • tsavo303tsavo303 Member Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you probally wouldn't be hiding under my boat!

    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Tsavo, step on me, and I will bite too!
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