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re: Got Charged by Water Moccasins a Few Weeks Ago
Posted on 10/2/19 at 1:59 pm to Funky Tide 8
Posted on 10/2/19 at 1:59 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Anyone else ever get chased by venomous snakes? What is the best course of action in this situation?
What you were going to do. Beat the whack out of them with a paddle. In considering how large you are relative to the sakes and using the leverage of the paddle swung at high speed, you likely would have separated the spinal chord from the brain. In that case canoe person 2, snakes 0.
I've never been chased by snakes.
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Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:02 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Anyone else ever get chased by venomous snakes?
No, because they don't chase people. They aren't smart. They might come in your general direction while trying to escape or if they don't realize you're there.
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What is the best course of action in this situation?
Watch them swim by. Take a photo. Eat a Snicker's. Whatever.
This post was edited on 10/2/19 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:03 pm to Funky Tide 8
Call your bank and get them to stop payment.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:07 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Anyone else ever get chased by venomous snakes? What is the best course of action in this situation?
Well I had my closest encounter with a snake in grand fashion myself. Fortunately it wasn't aggressive though. I was walking with this lady I was dating back in 1994 at Oak Mountain, Pelham, AL in October(heads up to those who might be doing this in 2019). The two of us made it about 60 yards up on the trail and something caught my attention. I looked down and about literally one pace in front of me was this huge Eastern Diamondback! When I say huge, I mean huge and I immediately knew what snake it was I was looking at...we were literally about to intersect on the trail.
I stopped suddenly of course and froze. I left my arm out to stop the lady I was with too as she was behind me and in my mind didn't necessarily see what I saw due to my blocking her view. I didn't feel the urge to yell either to irritate the snake. So it slithers on by, head raised a bit off the ground right in front of me with my life flashing right in front of my eyes. It had a huge set of rattlers and was probably as thick as my calf muscle. We watched as it continued to slither off, taking in the moment at some point looking at eachother both thinking "We are not going to believe this actually happened down the road!".
We reported the encounter to the park personnel who took off from their desks after it the moment we told them, they didn't find it from our description of its whereabouts but I always chuckle when I tell the story about hitting the jackpot of snakes to have a close encounter with if my goal was to find the most deadly one I could find. Every time now I see a Eastern Diamondback pic, it creeps me out. I can see other poisonous snakes, including rattlers and don't care but the moment I see one of them I literally get chills.
This post was edited on 10/2/19 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:07 pm to Teague
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No, because they don't chase people. They aren't smart.
Seems like charging something much bigger than them would be not smart
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They might come in your general direction while trying to escape or if they don't realize you're there.
They definitely saw us, and they definitely swam directly towards us.
I'm not saying that they were coming to attack me. But they most certainly swam directly towards us.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:09 pm to Crimson1st
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Oak Mountain
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huge Eastern Diamondback
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I immediately knew what snake it was I was looking at
Well.... eastern diamondbacks don't range that far north in Alabama, or even close. If you saw a large rattler at oak mountain, it was a timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus).
This post was edited on 10/2/19 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:09 pm to Funky Tide 8
One came right up to some friends of mine on their back porch the other day. frickers are aggressive and need to be destroyed.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:13 pm to Funky Tide 8
My Grandpa used to crack them like a whip against his old truck or a tree and pop their heads off. I am not that ballsy like that generation 
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:18 pm to Funky Tide 8
I had one trying to climb in the back of my boat while jugging one night.
And I had one charge from the bank at my spotlight while fishing one night.
And I had one charge from the bank at my spotlight while fishing one night.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:18 pm to Teague
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Well.... eastern diamondbacks don't range that far north, or even close. If you saw a large rattler at oak mountain, it was a timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus).
I believe it was too big to be a timber rattler. Additionally, it did not look like a timber rattler...it had the gray body and brown/tan diamonds but it had the light bordering around the diamonds, it wasn't marked like a timber rattler. The only ones I have seen that matches its look are ED rattlers.
I know usual range for alligators for example don't get very far north in Alabama BUT...
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Just as an example. So my thinking is that it might have just been one that managed it's way a bit further north than usual and found the habitat of Oak Mountain sustainable.
This post was edited on 10/2/19 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:21 pm to Funky Tide 8
quote:No, no they haven't.
Anyone else ever get chased by venomous snakes?
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:21 pm to Funky Tide 8
Dude....
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:23 pm to rowbear1922
quote:If you're such an alpha, why do you need a gun? I'm not an alpha but I also don't act like a little girl when I see snakes.
You live in Alabama and don’t carry a gun? Sounds like a problem only for a beta
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:23 pm to Funky Tide 8
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to move somewhere quickly and carelessly
What makes you so certain their movements were careless?
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:24 pm to Boudreaux35
Yep! When I was a teenager, cane pole fishing in a North Louisiana Slough, I would wade out a ways and cast. Sometimes a snake would swim out, and when they were close enough, I would hit them with the end of the fishing pole. Immediately they would dive and head away from me.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:24 pm to Funky Tide 8
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I am not sure how me knowing how to identify two different species of snakes has anything to do with me knowing the best action to take in the aforementioned situation.
Just figured that someone with the (alleged) snake expertise to be able to positively, without a doubt, identify a cottonmouth from a water snake would certainly know what to do in a semi-precarious situation as the one you described.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:25 pm to Teague
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Well.... eastern diamondbacks don't range that far north in Alabama, or even close. If you saw a large rattler at oak mountain, it was a timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus).
Agreed.
And guys- snakes (even moccasins) aren't looking to square off with you. They want nothing to do with you.
They bite for only two reasons: Fear and food. And we're too big of a meal.
I'd wager they were just confused while trying to get away from the threat.
Hell- most of them rattle their tails trying to let you know not to get too close- rattlers just happen to have the gift of better audio. Moccasins have their "cotton mouth". Those are the best warning signs they can muster.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:27 pm to Funky Tide 8
I grew up on a lake full of moccasins. Mean little bastards. They loved to get under the aluminum boats and charge you when you flipped one over to take out on the water. I probably killed dozens of them as a kid. Wack them with a boat paddle, step on their heads while they were dazed and cut their heads off.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:27 pm to chinhoyang
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Contrary to what you hear, they are not aggressive.
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooolsheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
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