Have "Cluckle" On Me!
 

I love to tell tales ... only true ones of course! :party0005:
This past week was my last run at turkeys for 2011-12 season. Tuesday afternoon I went out to do some scouting for roosting areas, and to set up near a food plot for later in the day. Same food plot that over the years I have been able to call in afternoon cruising gobblers. I set out 2 hen decoys and tucked myself into my usual "hide", taking a seat pile of pine straw and leaing against a big old pine tree. I set my box call and slate call on the straw to my right.

I'd cluck and purr a short time ..... about every 15 - 30 minutes or so, mixing in a few soft yelps every now and then as well. About 5:30 p.m., I reached for my slate call .... and for a split second I felt something "different" .... and then almost had a heart attack as a big ol', long bodied black snake shot across my extended right leg, about knee high, and dissapeared into the grass.

This one is a fact and a first for me ... and I hope a last. I'm too dang old for this sort of stuff !! ..

Just stand up and shake it out of your pantleg....You'll be good to go.

Thats what I love about turkey hunting. You get to enjoy nature.

Better a black snake than a copperhead or a massasauga.lol
GE

Next time you will have to bring a change of pants

Black snake, he's just trying to be friendly!
-Jake

I had a copperhead crawl across my legs while filming one morning. As long as your still they won't bother you and will be on their way. I sat on a copperhead last year while turkey hunting in Texas. I wasn't as calm about that one as I was with the other. I will never sit down without thoroughly looking again. I was lucky on that one.

Got a pretty nice timber rattler this morning on my turkey hunt....nothing gobbled by the way. He's soakin in the fridge now, waiting to boil in some grease! This is a warm spring and they are out for sure! I've seen several, usually let them go on their way but he was on the menu this morning.

Monotex, snakes don't bother me at all in the woods, but if that would have happened to me I would have messed my britches!! Not to mention made a hell of a ruckus and ruined my hunt!! Hahahaha!!!!

The black snakes in Florida are huge, and gorgeous:arms::arms: and fast.

I think a foul smell would have been in the air if that happened to me.