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re: Some snakes killed in the pine belt this last week
Posted on 8/23/13 at 2:27 pm to Flair Chops
Posted on 8/23/13 at 2:27 pm to Flair Chops
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Posted on 8/23/13 at 2:51 pm to LSUCouyon
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Rattlesnakes are actually pretty docile snakes. Before I started leaving them alone, I found it is hard to even make them rattle.
It is an old wives' tale that they will rattle when you get near. Last year i stepped about two inches from one and it never moved. I was marking timber and hit him with a spot of blue paint. He STILL didn't rattle. i left him alone. When i went by there about a half hour later, he had moved on.
Yea, I've read through adaptation or some shite like that, they now have instincts to not rattle and make themselves known because of persecution nowadays from humans and being tramples by other large animals such as horses and cows. Mothu frickin' Nature! I killed a 5' last year by my lease near Poplarville.
Posted on 8/23/13 at 3:25 pm to Bushwackers
This is the snake I almost stepped on . Not real easy to see.I stepped about 2 inches to his right. Lucklily it was a cool morning.
Posted on 8/23/13 at 3:33 pm to Hey You
quote:I doubt it.
This one is 15'.
Posted on 8/23/13 at 4:09 pm to LongDuckDong
Ran into 2 of those bastards in the one year I hunted woodville. The first time was opening weekend of bow season while sitting in a pop up blind. That fricker was making a bunch of noise behind me and I thought it was a cow. Next thing I know it crawled into the blind with me.
Posted on 8/23/13 at 4:26 pm to Hey You
15ft my arse 
MAYBE half that.
MAYBE half that.
Posted on 8/23/13 at 4:33 pm to OhFace55
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Ran into 2 of those bastards in the one year I hunted in woodville
So there are people that actually hunt near woodville. Who knew.
Posted on 8/23/13 at 5:31 pm to Hey You
Posted on 8/23/13 at 5:42 pm to chickman1313
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same, and I'm always looking for em
eta: not like trying to find them, but when I am out there I am always on the lookout
I've lucked up on 3 in the wild while hiking. I honestly haven't had any issues of where I was in any danger. I crossed one today (crossed trail in front of me), and he just continued on to a creek bed, slithered around, letting me photograph him.
Not an animal rights activist or anything, but I just don't understand the urge to kill them. You pretty much have to go out of your way to be bitten. They eat the pests and rodents and you're 9 times more likely to be struck by lightening than killed by a snake. /rant (not directed at you)
This post was edited on 8/23/13 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 8/23/13 at 5:44 pm to LongDuckDong
I really don't get the hate for the snakes, unless they are messing with ya I don't see a need. Now spiders in the other had, yes, dispatch with extreme prejudice.
Posted on 8/23/13 at 6:17 pm to Flair Chops
I've only seen one rattlesnake and it was a dead one. Crawled through 2 x 4 inch fence wire, ate a chicken and then got stuck on the way out. Found it dead the next morning, was one big son of a bitch. Guess it killed itself trying to get through the wire when it got stuck.
Posted on 8/23/13 at 7:57 pm to LouisianaChessie
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Ran into 2 of those bastards in the one year I hunted in woodville
Killed several when I hunted in Woodville most of the time I was hunting alone. Gave me the heebee geebees.
Posted on 8/23/13 at 7:59 pm to Flair Chops
Those are cottonmouths
Posted on 8/23/13 at 10:19 pm to LSUCouyon
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It is an old wives' tale that they will rattle when you get near.
I'm gonna call bullshite here.
The few that I have seen not rattle was in cold temps and one struck the end of my gun barrel. If I had the gun under my left arm I would have gotten bit on the leg.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 7:55 am to Flair Chops
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pine belt
dont know where this is but remind me never to visit there
Posted on 8/24/13 at 7:56 am to tgrbaitn08
lamar county on a logging job
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Flair, what do you don on tbe logging job, if you work on one..?
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Flair, what do you don on tbe logging job, if you work on one..?
Posted on 8/24/13 at 8:26 am to lsufan112001
I work in an office. A guy my boss and I go to church with is a forester and sent them to our office yesterday. I cropped his kid and a couple of his employees out.
He was supervising a logging crew. The two canebrakes he killed at his place in Jeff Davis county.
I actually have a forestry degree but do nothing in the field.
He was supervising a logging crew. The two canebrakes he killed at his place in Jeff Davis county.
I actually have a forestry degree but do nothing in the field.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 9:06 am to offshoretrash
Call bs if you want but the only rattlers I've seen rattle were poked and prodded or hit with blue paint. see my first post. They usually just lay low. I steped about two inches to the right of the snake in my pic and he never moved. At least until we moved away . He wasn't there when we came back about a half hour later.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 9:17 am to offshoretrash
One Hot summer day while cruising timber near St. Joe, I stopped to take a compass shot. Right next to me to my right about 3 ft was a huge rattler that made an Ess curve up a swelled butted tree. His head was about waist high and he was looking up the tree like he had hit a squirrel and was waiting for it to fall. Never paid attention to me so I eased away from him and left him alone. Different individuals act differently even in snakes but I never saw an aggressive rattler in 45 plus years in the woods hunting or working.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 2:03 pm to Flair Chops
I live in Lamar county. I've killed lots of rattlesnakes but very few timber rattlers. What part of lamar county was this in?
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