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Got a 48 inch Copperhead in my youth Bob...biggest one Ive ever seen....
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Glad we have no snakes in this part of Wy..
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I dunno how many of these bastids I've killed on my little spread here over the years. But more than any other snake that's been on the place! ![[Linked Image]](http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r174/lt13demi/Mobile%20Uploads/image_50.jpg)
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Got a 48 inch Copperhead in my youth Bob...biggest one Ive ever seen.... Poob! That's too big!!!!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Damn Bob! I hunted venemous snakes for 25 years and never got a coral!
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I've killed dozens here! All of them at least 2' long!!! Killed one, one morning with my shower shoe!!! Beat the schidt out of him!!! Hate those bastids. Got grandkids that live on the place. I showed em that last one and emphasized they will kill the hell out of you!!!! Usually when I'm done beating on the snakes there little left of a skin to skin! LOL!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Here's that 41 incher Postoak sent me! ![[Linked Image]](http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r174/lt13demi/Mobile%20Uploads/image_155.jpg)
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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I hate the darn things........ [img:left] ![[Linked Image]](http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t32/JGrimes_2007/2007NMAntelopeHunt001.jpg) [/img]
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Campfire Greenhorn
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The copperhead above was killed by contract workers clearing brush in Burleson County Texas. I have seen many in the 2 ft range, but this one was 41 inches long. Biggest one have seen. Had a head like a good size rattlesnake.
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Yeah! Don't you just love em JG !!!! Nice "baby" Ya holding there!!! 
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Bob, I have never seen a Coral snake here in Arkansas, although they say that we have them. miles
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Had a head like a good size rattlesnake What is up with the tail? Looks like the start of a rattle. miles
Look out for number 1, don't step in number 2.
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The SOB that bit my dog, a little over 2', about 'right' for a copperhead. ![[Linked Image]](http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b297/Shoalcove/House/snake_zpsxfu6qwrk.jpg)
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range pole. The colored sections are 12" ![[Linked Image]](http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n23/jlcpls/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_4816_1.jpg)
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Of all these snakes, its them damn rats snakes that make me hurt myself!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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I thought the same thing. Not really sure but the tail was almost totally black. Like a velvet tail.
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Over 40" seem like a very BIG copperhead.
Interesting comment about protected timber rattlers - feeling certain that I've seen one (or two) out here but we don't have any protection law or reg as far as I know. Bettter check.
Mark - would 24" be about the normal mature size for prairie rattlers in your area? We have some nearby, but have only seen one long/fat one - maybe 3 ft. or more - and it was hanging around in a big heap of junk metal where there also were plenty of rodents. The owner of the machine shop and I were walking around on the metal pile looking for a certain size piece of steel and saw him/her (could only see a part of the body here and there between the pieces of scrap) and decided to get it. Not an easy task - finally pinned part of it to the ground and tossed away enough stuff to grab it behind the head and drag it out. That snake was angry. Do your prairie rattlers usually have bad attitudes?
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I dunno how many of these bastids I've killed on my little spread here over the years. But more than any other snake that's been on the place! I think that is a king snake and not a coral snake. Maybe I am wrong, but I thought the jingle went "black touch red make you dead, black touch yellow friend to fellow" Clyde
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I dunno how many of these bastids I've killed on my little spread here over the years. But more than any other snake that's been on the place! I think that is a king snake and not a coral snake. Maybe I am wrong, but I thought the jingle went "black touch red make you dead, black touch yellow friend to fellow" Clyde Wrong. Red and yellow, kill a fellow. Red and black, friendly jack.
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optionally, black, yellow and red, kill that f'er dead.
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