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Snakes of South Carolina

select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,535 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
http://www.neoperceptions.com/snakesandfrogs.com/scra/snakes/scsnake.htm
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  • Sparty_76Sparty_76 Member Posts: 714 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am sure SC is beautiful and all that, but I think I will take my chances with the snow and the wolves up here in northern WI! [:)]
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,262 ******
    edited November -1
    me no likey snakes,,,
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  • rambo rebelrambo rebel Member Posts: 4,028
    edited November -1
    I won't walk out in the woods unless I have my hunters boots on. the copperheads are impossible to see when they aren't moving and they lay still trying to avoid you so if you come there way you are dead.

    and if you see one there is another one close by. mated pairs never get far from one another. I have seen nests of these things with 20 some odd babies that were 6-8 inches long and at one day old they have enough venom to drop several men.

    we keep anti-venom shots in the fridge. it'll save your life but it won't help the pain for the next 24 hours.

    we lose more dogs to them than anything else.
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,383 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks I look a lot of them up on the internet

    we vacation in SC sometimes
    good or bad I have a attraction to snakes my whole life , and seek them out when were walking the trails or river / marshes . I have seen one coral snake thing was fast never even got close to it to be sure ,may have been a king snake but it was in the weeds and I did not get a good look at it
    and yes wife gets mad WTH I have life insurance [}:)]
    my SIL was giving me a speech once ( while we were in Florida ) when I was pulling a big water snake out of the cattails I was 99.99 % sure it was harmless [:0] at least it never tried to bite me [:D] I told her STFU you not my mom [:(!] my wife and her still LOL about at one [V]
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  • kidthatsirishkidthatsirish Member Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Snakes and i have a wonderful arrangement. I leave them alone and they leave me alone.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Best thing you ever posted.
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of my FIL's works...

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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,286 ******
    edited November -1
    I know 3 people who were bitten by copperheads.
    Two were in the mountains, one on a farm.
    All three survived with moderate swelling and pain that went away after about 3 days.
    I've been an outdoorsman all my life and have only seen 5 here in SW Virginia.
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  • riflemikeriflemike Member Posts: 10,599 ✭
    edited November -1
    been around 65 years and have yet to see a (ahem) copperhead

    some of you girly men need to take a look at this...my SILs brother is passionate about wildlife...hes a little crazy, well a lot crazy, but good crazy

    all these guys served in Iraq

    he has a lot of info out there

    catching creation...tries to edumacate people less knowledgeable about critters

    hes the one with all the tats on his arms...All Wildlife

    he goes to churches/ schools , anywhere he is invited

    studied herpetology at UNCG

    view his FB page and be entertained

    stan lake or catching Creation
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  • tazzertazzer Member Posts: 16,837
    edited November -1
    Seen more then my fair share of copperheads, never been bite but my grandmother way back in the day got bit and have a had a few friends that have been bit. they all did ok with one getting sick and spending a night in the hospital, she was bit on the finger while working in her flower bed.

    Iv also played with a many of those rear fanged hognose snakes too [:p][:D] they where always a hoot to mess with. just don't see many of them anymore.
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  • riflemikeriflemike Member Posts: 10,599 ✭
    edited November -1
    [^][^]good post S-F[^][^]
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I find them in the driveway or the yard all the time...
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    The kids joke that it is grandaddy coming back to visit....
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,535 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lived in SC for 26 yrs. Seen one black snake out in the field 200 yd from the house , I left it alone..and one water moc. that was on a log. It was huge but no challenge for the .38 snub. 2 snakes in 26 yr. Now copperheads in Kentucky were not hard to see.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That work is one of the better of the state guides. Always wanted to get Dr. Martof to autograph my copy, but never saw him at the herp meetings.
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  • claysclays Member Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My one and only encounter with a rattlesnake on Pigeon Mtn south of Chickamauga, Ga, ended up with him making this nice mount.
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  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was bitten by a copperhead in upstate SC back in the mid 70s while clearing brush.They are almost invisible unless they move and will let you walk all around them but do take offense when stepped on.
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    That work is one of the better of the state guides. Always wanted to get Dr. Martof to autograph my copy, but never saw him at the herp meetings.


    My copy is signed!
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hope I don't jinx myself. I have hand cleared my roads inside of 25 acre plot and home site. I have seen 4 snakes in 17 years there.

    A timber rattler that I killed (the dog took credit though and rolled all over it).

    A black long snake that moved so fast it cleared the road before I could even get a good look. (racer?)

    Two of those Red on black friend of Jack that made me really think hard about the rhyme.

    A dead something that got in the mesh I used to protect the blueberry bushes and strangled itself and then was eaten by something.

    I would be VERY happy to never see another.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let's not show this to my wife...just made our vacation reservation in cherry Grove for this Sept!! [:D]
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  • godalejrgodalejr Member Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    sorry the only good snake are dead snakes.[}:)][}:)]
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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know about that! A good snake probably would go well with grits[;)]
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  • acdoddacdodd Member Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Took my wife to San Juan Island, Washington for her birthday last week.
    We were walking around the American Camp and there was a big snake sunning it's self right in the path.
    It was her birthday so I pointed it out to her but it would have been funny to watch when she stepped over it and it moved.
    It was a garter snake.
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