The only good snake is a...
 

DEAD SNAKE!!!
All jokes aside, the only snakes I kill are poisonous ones. This copperhead measured 41 ½” and was curled back in striking position 10" from one of my little B&T gyps. I don't know how the other 2 made it past the copperhead b/c they walked right where it was, but I'm glad nonetheless. I just happened to look down and it was curled back about to nail her on her side. I only had a split second to whack it & thank god I had my Tally-Ho stick w/ me!

This would have been the 2nd time in less than a year a dog of mine was bitten by a copperhead.

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Did you have to have to change your underdrawers? Lucky your four legged hunting buddies didn't get hit. Two years ago IAgee wasn't as lucky,I wind-up in the local hospital overnight from a strike just above my left ankle. Agee a dead snake is a good one.

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Thats one of the largest copperheads I've seen! Good job taking it out. I'm sure there will be few cry about it....To freaking bad! I've killed a few and will kill a lot more...given the chance:D

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Hey Steve,

Thats a good size snake, where did you whack him at? Hope all is well and looking forward to this fall to hopefully rabbit hunt with you finally.

Jim

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We found this little guy hog hunting.

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I do not like to see a dead snake but when i do i am glad it is a copperhead.if you go for walks you need what rev has on his feet.a good pair of snake boots can save you alot of pain.them copperheads are not happy snakes they will hit you 2-3-4-5 times and look to hit you somemore.now revs pet he has on his foot they just try to get away from you.This was 1 of my pets http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r52/stonecaty/cem003.jpg

Why in heavens name would you have a dangerous animal as a rattle snake for a pet? You are one o the people that I hear about in the news. I remember hearing about a little girl being killed by a pet snake that daddy had. This is so stupid. That snake belongs in the woods and not around humans.

Shump- nice timber rattler

I personally love snakes, used to work at the reptile houses in various zoo's (national, San Diego, and private) But Copperheads are mean SOB's and i have had them lunge at me more then any other snake. Not a fan of them. As a kid i used to catch copperheads around the day care center to protect the other kids (my father was the head guy at the reptile house/bird of prey house at the national zoo, so i grew up with snakes and hawks/eagles and owls in my house.) But if you are in an area with a lot of snakes, snakes boots and or big rubber boots are a good idea, especially with copperheads, they dont give warnings.

Killed this guy last week on the way to go fishing- Ending up being 5 feet long w/ 11 rattles.

http://plane-insane.com/uploader/010.JPG *Warning- BIG picture

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I dont care for snakes , especially poisonous ones.
About 6 years ago while hunting I was hit 3 times on the toe of my boot.
Luckily , it didnt penetrate and was very surprised by the speed at which the 3 strikes occured. It was like a machine gun on 3 shot burst , that fast.

Being at night , I barely noticed the event until I realized I had my foot on the body of the snake.
Put a big stick to his head and made a mess of it.

Use caution when in the woods.

I do not like to see a snake killed.I take them out of the town i live in so they do not get killed.The rattlers i keep till it is time to den then i put them back near the den.Last year me and my buddy gave back 23 babys with the moms.This spring we found 19 of the babys.The rattler needs all the help it can get to many people kill them

Thats a whopper copperhead alright, biggest one I've killed was 38".

I'm with you on killing all poisinous snakes I run across!!

Where in NoVA was this?? The only copper head Ive ever run across in NoVA is the one in a cage at Riverbend Park. I"ve seen them up in the Frederick Watershed in Maryland, but they were mostly smaller snakes. And I"ve never run into a mean copperhead, which doesnt mean you shouldnt kill the damn poisonous snakes just that i havent seen them.

but i am interested in where you got that one. hes huge. id hate for my dog to run into him.

That was one bit copperhead. Did you make a hatband out of the skin?

What happened to your dog???

whatta snake i killed a 52 in cottonmouth in ky bout three years ago

For some reason the coperheads are thick as theives this year at my farm in Ga. I think they must have nested close to the house. I have killed 2 moccosins and the dogs have killed 4 copperheads in the last week and a half. All the copperheads were within 20 yards of the house.
We have 2 dogs that will kill them every chance they get. One has been bitten so many times whe has built up an immunity to them. One copperhead was almost 4ft and was laying with his head less than a foot from the door that we go in and out of.
I think our one dog can actually smell the snakes because she generally stays on the screened in porch but almost every time she has killed a snake near the house she would go ballistic until we let her out. Sure enough she would find a snake. Did this the other day with the one at the back door.

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