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Yeah, the copperheads just lay there 'til you step on them. Stinkin' cottonmouths seem to live in a constant state of pissed'offed'ness  .....they're tough too.... They are the reason I carry shot shells in the first 2 rounds...sometimes the second is needed...and needed quickly... For a previous poster, I hope I never see a 5 footer. I've got lots of 3.5-4 foot that are super thick, but a 5 footer would be a big one around here...but I don't let them grow any longer than they are when I meet them.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Back in the middle sixties I had this cute little secretary that worked for me at the Florida National Group of Banks in Jacksonville, Florida. She grew up on a place in the country in Southern Georgia and her dad would capture live snakes and turn them loose on their back porch until he had captured enough of them to sell to medical laboratories for their venom and medical research. She said it was nothing to have at least half dozen to a dozen of those critters crawling around back there at any one time.
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They do try to count on the camo, so it takes a fair beating to fire them up.
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Campfire Ranger
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Stinkin' cottonmouths seem to live in a constant state of pissed'offed'ness mad... Cottonmouths are born mad at the world and only get worse as they age. I firmly believe that they would crawl five miles out of their way if they thought they would get to bite something.
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Campfire Regular
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You sure got that right! I stepped on a rattlesnake and it didn't bite me. Stepped right over a Copperhead, no bite. Dang cottonmouth swam up to my boat, came right up over the side, and tried it's best to bite me! Nasty critters!
I'd still rather walk up on a snake than a hornets nest, or step on a yellow jacket hive.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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the only good cottonmouth is a dead one
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Campfire Tracker
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Thanks to 24HCF, I dreamed about snakes all night long. I hate snakes...
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I like snakes and dont wanna kill them, but the Cottonmouth is different...wouldnt go out of my way to kill one but when I was around them they did seem to live in a state of pissed offedness as someone said.
Had a big one try mightily hard to kill me one day and he came close....I still have his hide hanging in the house....
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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