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We have copperheads too, I pick them up, move them a mile or so from the house. They scare people, but if you don’t Fuuck with them, they won’t bother you. I’ve been bit twice, stepped on one outside in the dark barefoot. I don’t go out without a flashlight now. The second time was my fault too.

Copperhead snakes rely upon camouflage and cover for safety. When danger is perceived, Copperheads will usually freeze in place and remain motionless for the threat to pass or strike if the threat is close.

I need ta be at that place.

Get some trigger time and snake ID practice.

Once again, I'm thankful I live in the North. Never seen a poisonous snake within 100 miles of here.

🤣🤣🤣🤣.

Good one 50!

They can be aggressive.

The neighbor mentioned above had one on the porch crawl toward him, and struck at him a couple of times on the front porch.


Took Buster out to pee one night (Had my flashlight) and he stopped at the edge of the patio, then jumped straight up... I moved the light down there, and there was a copperhead striking at him. I guess it hit him, but didn't get a fang in him.

Bandit was bitten in the face when he was about 6 months old. I saw him jump, and went to look, and never found the snake. But it got him good... Trip to the vet.

Outside cats kept our last home in Texas pretty safe. Multiple dogs running around help too. Of course, everyone doesn't live in a place they can have them. If you live in snake country its best to develop a trained eye and teach it to your kids/grandkids too, ha.

Man ....
I would love the chance to fugg some snakes up out in the countryside with this.
Impractical ....
Ya. Kinda.
Fun
Hell ya....

Always killing rattlers at the old mans place. Keeps the yard clean, but they're all coming from the neighboring property. Its about 30 acres the old man watches for the family. The house has long since collapsed but the old horse stalls and hog pens are still standing. Snake boots are a MUST out there. Wish you guys could see the size of the snake trails in those pens. Scary chit. Almost lost a dog years ago. Snake bit on the forehead. Vet said they were the biggest fang wounds he had ever seen.

+1 on the concept that killing snakes indiscriminately is ignorant.

I've got all sorts of non-poisonous snakes around the farm and the house-- garters, hog-noses, black rats, black racers. They're a tremendous boon.

I've got a black rat snake-- sucker must be over 8 feet long-- that lives in the foundation of the farmhouse. When he's around the rodent population goes to zero. I've only seen him once, but he leaves a massive shed skin every summer in the same place. The only way I know he's still around is that a ventilation grate gets moved twice a year-- once in the spring and once in the fall. That's when I know he's moving in or moving out.

Copperheads on the other hand? I'd go out of my way to kill one.

Funny as it sounds, there no rattlers in a big area where we live. For several miles radius, it's pretty well known that no rattlers are here. Lots of copperheads. An occasional cottonmouth.

The camo statement is spot on...some of the best camo I've ever seen .

Can honestly say I've never heard or seen one actually get aggressive.

However that camo and the accidentally stepping on them can certainly get a reaction...

Had to pry one off my boot one night, literally. But he bit because I was standing on him, so I don't really think that was aggressive...

Just a love peck. All it was...

Use to go down to Bull Run as a kid, and there were zillions of them down there it seems...

we young boys use to go out hunting them... usually with a hoe or shovel... to take their heads off with...

and when I say Bull Run... yeah the same Bull Run that there was two Civil War Battles named after it..

Manassas VA....

Dammit!

Beat me to it.

Lotsa lakes around where i grew up


Rocks piled up around the banks to avoid erosion On warm spring early summer theyd crawl outa the rocks to sun themselves

Hot jambalaya them sobs were plentiful. Loved whacking their damn heads off with a machete


Even though I’ve not seen as many here ( ok none ) I still keep a bottle of whiskey handy.


If you’re gonna die, best to go out a lil buzzed

I'd rather have copperheads than rattlers.

Here's one I shot a couple years ago. 6 footer.

Bite from this bad boy would mess up your day!

your snake stories always give me the creeps. i hate them fuggen things.

Amazing how well the coloration matches those Live Oak leaves all over the ground. Seeing as how the Live Oaks are associated with cicada which copperheads seem to prefer to eat, it's an illustration of perfect adaptation.

That one I spotted on my tractor as I drove through a gate at a fellow rancher's cattle pens...

It was trying to crawl into a culvert, so I grabbed my .45, and jumped off the tractor and had to grab it by the tail and pull it out of the culvert so I could shoot it.

You can see the two holes at the base of his head made by 230gr hardball.