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I didn't even have to look for it. It stands out like sore thumb to me...
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This is one reason I hate snakes. Same thing happened with this Mojave Green! The hair on the back of my neck is up right now! Heeesh! That's the best kind of snake!
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Had a copperhead in our trap house at the gun club a few months back! Would have liked to had video of the fellow going to turn it on :-)
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I almost stepped on two of those little suckers while doing some midday scouting during bow season about fifteen years ago. It was in a little bottom where rain washed sand off of a dirt road and into a grove of white oaks.
As I was easing through the area with reddish sand scattered with white oak leaves trying to figure out the deer trails, I came to a screeching halt when a copperhead just appeared on one of the bare spots about two feet away. WHOA! Then out of the corner of my eye there's another one about a foot away from the other. DOUBLE WHOA!! They were trying to warm up in the sun and they were almost as hard to see as the one in the OP photo.
I started backing away but then stopped and VERY carefully scanned the route back away from them. Talk about the "willies"
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I see the little bastard, grew up around them.
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and it looks like the snake continues another foot to the right of where you marked.
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Almost stepped on this dude. He never rattled............
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Almost stepped on this dude. He never rattled............ neat color phase for a timber rattler...I've ever seen one that color before.... I like that taurus too....
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I didn't even have to look for it. It stands out like sore thumb to me... +1
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Excellent thread guys - thanks. A good reminder about how difficult it can be to see a nearby Copperhead. My Grandpa encouraged me to be out in the PA woods, but he always was worried about those and kinda lectured me on looking out for them. I had to do the same with our girls when we lived in MD for a while.
And that WD-Coontail is a nice big one - looks like many we would find near irrigation canal banks in AZ desert farmlands - especially during dove season.
That Timber is striking looking - just beautiful. Come to think of it, of the half-dozen or so I saw in the East as a young person, don't think I ever heard one rattle. Are they slow to rattle?
Thanks again for these pics.
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That Timber is striking looking - just beautiful. Come to think of it, of the half-dozen or so I saw in the East as a young person, don't think I ever heard one rattle. Are they slow to rattle?
depends on the individual, how willing they are to rattle is actually genetically ingrained.....couple hundred years of people killing every rattler they could find has artificially selected for genetics that make rattlers slow to rattle cause those that didnt rattle right away tended to be the ones that lived....
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[quote=stxhunter] Me and my brother just cracked up at this. Roger, you hot shyt you. lol!
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Lower left third of the pic, midsection of the viper. See it. Great camouflage.
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i remember back when i was 8, i caught a 3ft water moccasin, had my mom and aunt chasing me around the yard yelling at me to drop it so they could chop it up with a hoe. they never caught me or the snake.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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I think a copperhead is about the most likely poisonous snake to get bit by in North America. Their camo, where they live and the fact they will not give you warning.
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This one came cruising down the walk by the front door last summer:
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Find the Cottonmouth.... Killed this little 5 footer last month hunting. He's alive still in this picture, though very pissed off with a severe back ache. He suffered an unfortunate skull fracture after I took the picture.
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Damn a snake. (Regardless of the color).
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Copperheads are pretty timid, to be honest. The PROBLEM is they'll lay still, hoping you'll pass by without noticing them, and that's when someone ends up stepping on one. Copperheads are VERY common around here, and most of the time I don't even bother killing them when I find them in the woods. Now a cottonmouth is a whole nudder story!! That's one snake I do my best to avoid!! Every one I've ever encountered was VERY aggressive. I've been chased by more than one cottonmouth when fishing around the Edisto river when I was younger.
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