Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
08-13-2008, 12:52 PM
#111
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
Posts: 7,684
RE: Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
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ORIGINAL: Oneshot7
Do you mean like this one?? I will kill any poisonous snake I see, without hesitation. Have any of you every stepped on on a copperhead............. they will not be to happy. What about having a rattlesnake bight your truck? This one takes the cake though, what about a cottonmouth falling in your boat?? There are to many chances to get bitten and way to good of a camoflagued animal to let him go once. I wear snakes boots but still dont always feel safe. There are some snakes round here that will make you think twice about only 16 inch snake boots, but will make you want a whole snake suit. This is the way I was raised and will continue to be the same way, to many people and dogs walk through the areas I am in to just let them go.
ORIGINAL: Rory/MO
I can tell a lot of you have never seen a cottonmouth
I can tell a lot of you have never seen a cottonmouth
08-13-2008, 12:52 PM
#112
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: north florida
Posts: 1,277
RE: Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
ORIGINAL: Oneshot7
Do you mean like this one?? I will kill any poisonous snake I see, without hesitation. Have any of you every stepped on on a copperhead............. they will not be to happy. What about having a rattlesnake bight your truck? This one takes the cake though, what about a cottonmouth falling in your boat?? There are to many chances to get bitten and way to good of a camoflagued animal to let him go once. I wear snakes boots but still dont always feel safe. There are some snakes round here that will make you think twice about only 16 inch snake boots, but will make you want a whole snake suit. This is the way I was raised and will continue to be the same way, to many people and dogs walk through the areas I am in to just let them go.
ORIGINAL: Rory/MO
I can tell a lot of you have never seen a cottonmouth
I can tell a lot of you have never seen a cottonmouth
08-13-2008, 12:57 PM
#113
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Norman OK USA
Posts: 3,318
RE: Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
Dang, I'm not any kind of snake hater... but I did see 7 copper heads at our lease between Saturday and Sunday. I don't mind bullsnakes, rat snakes, black snakes, garder snakes, ribbon snakes, diamond back water snakes, racers, hog-nosed snakes, long-nosed snakes, prairie king snakes, or any of the others of the multitude of non-venemous snakes in Oklahoma. For that matter, I don't mind the rattle snakes because they alert you before it's game time.
But at the same time, Copperheads and Cottonmouth's are a different story... I don't go looking to get rid of them, but when you see 7 in two days, it makes you think a little bit harder about that walk to the stand in the dark when it's still 90 degrees outside... just sayin.
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Preacher, didn't Satan come in the form of a snake (serpent) to tempt Eve? So if you look at it like that, then Snakes are the root of all evil!!!!
But at the same time, Copperheads and Cottonmouth's are a different story... I don't go looking to get rid of them, but when you see 7 in two days, it makes you think a little bit harder about that walk to the stand in the dark when it's still 90 degrees outside... just sayin.
*Edit*
Preacher, didn't Satan come in the form of a snake (serpent) to tempt Eve? So if you look at it like that, then Snakes are the root of all evil!!!!
08-13-2008, 01:11 PM
#114
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,679
RE: Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
Well, a copper head isn't likely going to kill anything larger than a rat unless you happend to be one of the extremely rare people that are allergic to things like bee stings and the like. Sure it willhurt and you will swell and suchbut it isn't going to be life threatening or anything like that.
A Cotton mouth can be a little agressive when provokedbut I have never had one come at me and I have been around thousand of them. They will stand their ground more than other snakes will but rarely ever attack a human being. As a kid I would catch and kill cottonmouth almost daily. Since then I have grown up and don't fear something like a snake. I am far more "fearful" of walking down the street then I will ever be walking through the woods in the dark.Usually when a snake gets agressive they are either shedding their skin and can't see well enough to know where you are or what youare anddefend themselvesor you are screwing with them.
The fact is that more snake bites come from messing with the snakes than do leaving them alone. If everyone just left them alone and walked around them there would be far far less reported snake bites in the U.S.
My dog was bitten twice (same incident) by a cottonmouth and we spentover a thousand bucks keeping her in the vets office on anti venom. I still don't kill them when I see them just because they are a snake.
A Cotton mouth can be a little agressive when provokedbut I have never had one come at me and I have been around thousand of them. They will stand their ground more than other snakes will but rarely ever attack a human being. As a kid I would catch and kill cottonmouth almost daily. Since then I have grown up and don't fear something like a snake. I am far more "fearful" of walking down the street then I will ever be walking through the woods in the dark.Usually when a snake gets agressive they are either shedding their skin and can't see well enough to know where you are or what youare anddefend themselvesor you are screwing with them.
The fact is that more snake bites come from messing with the snakes than do leaving them alone. If everyone just left them alone and walked around them there would be far far less reported snake bites in the U.S.
My dog was bitten twice (same incident) by a cottonmouth and we spentover a thousand bucks keeping her in the vets office on anti venom. I still don't kill them when I see them just because they are a snake.
08-13-2008, 01:18 PM
#116
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Heaven is my home, temporarily residing in WNY :)
Posts: 6,679
RE: Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
ORIGINAL: Dubbya
Dang, I'm not any kind of snake hater... but I did see 7 copper heads at our lease between Saturday and Sunday. I don't mind bullsnakes, rat snakes, black snakes, garder snakes, ribbon snakes, diamond back water snakes, racers, hog-nosed snakes, long-nosed snakes, prairie king snakes, or any of the others of the multitude of non-venemous snakes in Oklahoma. For that matter, I don't mind the rattle snakes because they alert you before it's game time.
But at the same time, Copperheads and Cottonmouth's are a different story... I don't go looking to get rid of them, but when you see 7 in two days, it makes you think a little bit harder about that walk to the stand in the dark when it's still 90 degrees outside... just sayin.
*Edit*
Preacher, didn't Satan come in the form of a snake (serpent) to tempt Eve? So if you look at it like that, then Snakes are the root of all evil!!!!
Dang, I'm not any kind of snake hater... but I did see 7 copper heads at our lease between Saturday and Sunday. I don't mind bullsnakes, rat snakes, black snakes, garder snakes, ribbon snakes, diamond back water snakes, racers, hog-nosed snakes, long-nosed snakes, prairie king snakes, or any of the others of the multitude of non-venemous snakes in Oklahoma. For that matter, I don't mind the rattle snakes because they alert you before it's game time.
But at the same time, Copperheads and Cottonmouth's are a different story... I don't go looking to get rid of them, but when you see 7 in two days, it makes you think a little bit harder about that walk to the stand in the dark when it's still 90 degrees outside... just sayin.
*Edit*
Preacher, didn't Satan come in the form of a snake (serpent) to tempt Eve? So if you look at it like that, then Snakes are the root of all evil!!!!
08-13-2008, 01:55 PM
#117
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Southeast, TX
Posts: 818
RE: Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
ORIGINAL: bigbulls
Well, a copper head isn't likely going to kill anything larger than a rat unless you happend to be one of the extremely rare people that are allergic to things like bee stings and the like. Sure it willhurt and you will swell and suchbut it isn't going to be life threatening or anything like that.
Well, a copper head isn't likely going to kill anything larger than a rat unless you happend to be one of the extremely rare people that are allergic to things like bee stings and the like. Sure it willhurt and you will swell and suchbut it isn't going to be life threatening or anything like that.
Copperheads, Cottonmouths, and all Rattlesnakes (Timber, Diamondback, Pigmy, etc) all have the same type of venom. The Coral snake is the only North American venomous snake with a different type of venom.
08-13-2008, 02:15 PM
#118
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: minneapolis mn.
Posts: 588
RE: Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
I would kill a scorpion or a spider if I felt it was threatening humans,maybe even if I didnt feel it was threatening because it might in the future,I cant believe people would defend snakes or other poisoness creatures? Bears are a completely differant argument.
For me rattlers would have no rights unless I saw one out in the desert but by my stand? it would be dead and no warden would argue.
For me rattlers would have no rights unless I saw one out in the desert but by my stand? it would be dead and no warden would argue.
08-13-2008, 02:41 PM
#119
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: gainesville, FL/Blakely, GA
Posts: 580
RE: Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
ORIGINAL: bigbulls
A Cotton mouth can be a little agressive when provokedbut I have never had one come at me and I have been around thousand of them. They will stand their ground more than other snakes will but rarely ever attack a human being.
A Cotton mouth can be a little agressive when provokedbut I have never had one come at me and I have been around thousand of them. They will stand their ground more than other snakes will but rarely ever attack a human being.
08-13-2008, 02:46 PM
#120
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Wright, WY
Posts: 1,281
RE: Look what my buddy found lurking near one of the stands yesterday!
Wow, did everyone turn into some PMSing women (no offense to any woman) this week or is it just me? Holy cow!
If you don't have sumptin nice to say, don't say (or in this case, type) nothin at all!
Lighten up guys.
If you don't have sumptin nice to say, don't say (or in this case, type) nothin at all!
Lighten up guys.