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re: 2025 West Texas snake trip

Posted on 7/13/25 at 6:26 pm to
Posted by TigrrrDad
Member since Oct 2016
8088 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 6:26 pm to
This year I’m doing a trip every month from Feb. thru Sept. or Oct. - each between 1-2 weeks long. This year I’m pretty much splitting time between Florida and Texas, plus one trip to Arizona next month, but next year I’ll branch out more and try some new states.
Posted by Rize
Spring Texas
Member since Sep 2011
19328 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 6:41 pm to
quote:

This year I’m doing a trip every month from Feb. thru Sept. or Oct. - each between 1-2 weeks long. This year I’m pretty much splitting time between Florida and Texas, plus one trip to Arizona next month, but next year I’ll branch out more and try some new states.


If you’re ever in South Texas looking for Indigo’s hit me up.
Posted by Bama and Beer
Baldwin Co, AL
Member since Oct 2010
85480 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 6:50 pm to
This post was edited on 7/13/25 at 6:54 pm
Posted by TigerBait2008
Boulder,CO
Member since Jun 2008
40491 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 9:59 pm to
That coachwhip looks cool.
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25910 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:23 pm to
Both of the Trans-Pecos snakes are good looking snakes.

I tubed a Trans-Pecos Ratsnake in a herpetology class once upon a time.
Posted by TigrrrDad
Member since Oct 2016
8088 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 11:08 pm to
Posted by TigrrrDad
Member since Oct 2016
8088 posts
Posted on 7/13/25 at 11:10 pm to
quote:

If you’re ever in South Texas looking for Indigo’s hit me up.


Super high on my wish list. I’m told they’re easiest to find in the spring. I was looking for indigos in south Texas when I found the coyote pups back in April.
Posted by Train is comin
Deer Park
Member since Sep 2020
1033 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:15 am to
Great pics, and helluva trip!
Posted by Rize
Spring Texas
Member since Sep 2011
19328 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 8:07 am to
quote:

Super high on my wish list. I’m told they’re easiest to find in the spring. I was looking for indigos in south Texas when I found the coyote pups back in April.



I catch them from time to time pretty much year around.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
16864 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 8:16 am to
that pic of the diamondback on the road is pure badassness
Posted by caro81
Member since Jul 2017
6316 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:45 am to
great pics.

i know they arent exciting but something about simple kingsnakes always gives me a smile.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
Member since Feb 2009
56800 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:25 pm to
Thanks for sharing TgrrrDad
Posted by MemphisGuy
Germantown, TN
Member since Nov 2023
14549 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:00 pm to
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When I was a kid watching Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom back in the ‘70s, this is the life I dreamed of.


Let me guess... when you played Mutual of Omaha, you were always Jim.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
87335 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:57 pm to
Every time you post one of these, I see at least one snake I did not know existed. There are way more rattlesnakes than I thought.
Posted by 308
the backwoods of Mississippi
Member since Sep 2020
3253 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 5:23 pm to
Do you ever encounter Mojave Green rattlesnakes in West Texas?
Posted by TigrrrDad
Member since Oct 2016
8088 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 7:06 pm to
I found one last September but I lost it in the rocks so didn’t get good pics. . Two of my friends each got a Mojave this trip but I wasn’t with either of them at the time - some nights we each went in different directions.
Posted by TigrrrDad
Member since Oct 2016
8088 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 7:14 pm to
quote:

Let me guess... when you played Mutual of Omaha, you were always Jim


You know it.
My childhood friend who accompanies me on many trips is more the Marlon type.
Posted by KingRanch
The Ranch
Member since Mar 2012
61758 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 7:23 pm to
That’s not a broad banded copper head?
Posted by Catahoula20LSU
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2011
2978 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 8:58 pm to
Great pics but to heck with the rattle snakes and the copperhead. Nope nope nope. I only pick up nonvenomous snakes.
Posted by TigrrrDad
Member since Oct 2016
8088 posts
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:24 pm to
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That’s not a broad banded copper head?


Technically, yes.
Until recently, broadbanded & Trans-Pecos were considered two distinct subspecies. But now genetic studies say they are the same, just with regional phenotypic variations in appearance. But frick that - if it’s West of the Pecos River, it’s still a Trans-Pecos copper to me.
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