good tip...

rob you aint never been lucky enuff to come across a timber rattler?? or a pi$$ed off copper head? sure they aint deadly....but i still dont want bit by one when im in the deep woods alone. one late summer/early fall i was DEEP in the woods walking a logging road just walking around on a nice sunday at camp. theres a little "island" of trees in the logging road and i spot a snake. i usually like snakes and reptiles and anything i can play with..exspecially then when i was 14 or so. stupid me i ID it as a black snake and run up to it and corner it and get ready to put a forked stick over its neck so i can grab it. when i went to do that the sucker struck about a couple foot. i was like mannn your a fiesty little black snake huh? (yes i talked to him lol) went to try again...he was already coiled up by then and snapped again. whoaaaa then i noticed the tail! holy chit! hes rattling!! RUN!!!!! lol i ran my arse back to camp in a HURRY. i was close to 2 miles from camp and noone had any ideas of my where about except i was in the woods somewhere! sure they might n ot be DEADLY....but 2 miles from camp...i dont wanna get bit! lol. i wont buy snake boots for around here but im a little more cautious around here....got a similar story from when i was a kid riding bikes to the creek and swimming. about 3 miles from home and i chased down a copperhead and lightly put my football spikes on it to hold it down...put a ton of holes in the shoes and i realized what it was lol......

COME ON MO WE WILL TAKE YA

Down here in the old hot humid south, snakes are everywhere.
Seen way more than I care to say.
I was even bit a few yrs back by a copperhead early one sept morning while bowhunting although he did not penetrat my boots it stillwoke me up. I did not see him untill he popped me 3times.
In the deep south diamond backs are common to see!
I have a friend that killedtwo of them last season while hunting on oneafternoon hunt in two different areas.
The old saying down here is? It`s not the one you can see that will get you!
"But the one you don`t!"

Snakes really much of a concern in my area of Wi. Untill I head to the southern part of the state and hunt the ridges, a few ratlers.

i dont have that problem

Wierd, I just got this picture in an email this morning... Look close in the picture.

We have some of those suckers around here. There is no such thing as a good snake, but a dead one

that snake is long.

Keith, I wonder if my Slick Trick would cut that thing in half? I'd be very willing to try.

I've been fairly lucky living in the South and haven't run into any snakes in the dark in the woods. But about 3 weeks ago I was at a buddy's ranch in Texas walking/fishing along a pond dam that was really wooded. I walked about 20 yards in the dark and decided that I should probably turn on my headlight. The light came on as I picked up my left foot and before it hit the ground I noticed a nice looking water mocassin that I about stepped on. He attacked my jig, and then my Ruger 10/22 attacked him. I hate snakes.

That is amazing that you haven't seen a snake in the woods! I was out dove hunting just the other day and step about six inches from a rattle snake. I didn't even realize it until I had walked about three feet or so past him and he started rattling. I turned around and blew him up. I don't do snakes!

Thanks for the tip. Plenty of them down here is Louisiana.



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